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Telephone: (607) 255-6818
Email: cag2@cornell.edu
Professor Ginet's interests include metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of language. Topics in his advanced courses before his retirement in 1999 included action (including free will and responsibility); metaphysics and epistemology of perception; and a priori knowledge. Before coming to the Sage School in 1971, he was on the faculties of The Ohio State University, the University of Michigan, and the University of Rochester.
- "Might We Have No Choice?" in Freedom and Determinism, ed. K. Lehrer (1966).
- "An Incoherence in the Tractatus," Canadian Journal of Philosophy (1973).
- Knowledge, Perception, and Memory (1975)
- "Wittgenstein's Claim that there Could Not Be Just One Occasion of Obeying a Rule," in
Essays on Wittgenstein in Honour of G.H.von Wright, Acta Philosophica Fennica (1976).- "Performativity," Linguistics and Philosophy (1979).
- "Contra Reliabilism," The Monist (1985).
- "The Fourth Condition," in Philosophical Analysis, ed. D.F. Austin (1988).
- On Action (1990)
- "Dispositionalism: A Defense Against Kripke's Criticisms," Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Vol. XVII (1992).
- "In Defense of the Principle of Alternative Possibilities: Why I Don't Find Frankfurt's Argument Convincing," in Tomberlin ed., Philosophical Perspectives 10: Metaphysics (1996).
- "Freedom, Responsibility, and Agency," The Journal of Ethics I, pp. 85-98.