Robert Schwartz

Distinguished Professor

Office: Curtin Hall 617
Phone: (414) 229-5216/4719
Fax: (414) 229-5022
e-mail: schwartz@uwm.edu

Degree:

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

Research Interests:

His research focuses on issues in the philosophy of psychology, having published works on vision, language and mathematical cognition. He also continues some lines of research in the philosophy of science and Pragmatism.

Teaching Interests:

Teaches the introduction to philosophy, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of science, and Pragmatism.

Selected Publications:

Books:

Rethinking Pragmatism (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012)

Visual Versions (MIT Press, 2006)

Readings in the Philosophy of Perception, (ed.) (Blackwell Publishing, 2003).

Vision: Variations on Some Berkelean Themes (Blackwell Publishing, 1994).

Articles:

"The Illusion of Illusions" in Philosophy & Psychology of Illusions (Palgrave Press, 2012).

"Goodman and the Demise of Semantics and Syntactic Models" in Handbook of the History of Logic, Vol. 8 (2011).

"Events are What We Make of Them" in Understanding Events: from Perception to Action (2007).

"The Facts about Facts" Iride (2007)

"Creating Art, Creating Reality: A Wild(e) View of Art" in Kreativität (Verlag, 2006).

"A Note on Goodman's Problem" Journal of Philosophy (2005).

"To Austin or not to Austin that is the Disjunction" Philosophical Studies (2004).

"Avoiding Error about Error" Colour Perception: From Light to Color (Oxford 2003).

"The Concept of an Object in Perception and Cognition" From Fragments to Objects (Oxford 2002).

"Evolutionary Internalized Regularities" Behavioral and Brain Sciences (2002).

"Vision and Cognition in Picture Perception" Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (2001).

"Starting from Scratch: Making Worlds" Erkenntnis (2000).