Professor
Arnold Koslow
230
West Clinton Avenue
Tenafly, N.J. 07670
(201) 568-2683
Department
of Philosophy, Brooklyn College, and The Graduate Center, CUNY.
Education:
Columbia College,
B.A. (1954)
King's College, Cambridge Research Certificate (1955)
Columbia University, Ph.D (1965)
Employment:
Instructor, Columbia
University (1959-1965)
Visiting Lecturer, The Johns Hopkins University,
(Fall, 1960)
Assistant Professor, Columbia University (Summer
1965)
Visiting Assistant Professor, Columbia University,
(Spring 1967, Fall 1968)
Visiting Professor, Western Electric Graduate Center
(Summer 1968)
Assistant Professor, Brooklyn College (1965-1968)
Associate Professor, Brooklyn College (1968-1971)
Professor of Philosophy, Brooklyn College (1971)
Deputy Executive Officer, Ph.D Program in Philosophy,
The Graduate Center, C.U.N.Y. (1971-1973)
Executive Officer, Ph.D Program in Philosophy, The
Graduate Center, C.U.N.Y. (1973-1975)
Deputy Executive Officer, The Ph.D. Program in
Philosophy, (l985-1986)
Faculty Member, The Summer Linguistics Institute of
the Linguistics Society of America (Summer,
1986).
Publications:
1. Translation from the Chinese (Chou Pei Suan Ching) of a proof of
the Chinese Pythagorean Theorem. Published in J.Needham, Science and
Civilization in China, vol.III, pp.22-23, Cambridge University Press,
1959.
2. "A Reply
to J.Lucas and J.Ziman on Popper's Criterion of Demarcation." The
Cambridge Review, May 30, 1959, pp.567-8.3.
3. Discussion?Review of Sir Harold Jeffreys, Scientific Inference, Second
edition, Journal of Philosophy, vol.57, no.12, (1960), pp.38-391.
4. "Is Engineering a Science?, The Columbia
Engineering Quarterly, November, 1960.
5. (Ph.D Thesis: Changes in the Concept of Mass,
from Newton to Einstein, Columbia, 1965).
6. The Changeless Order, The Physics of Space,
Time, and Motion, (edited), pp.328, Braziller, New York, 1967.
7. "Mach's Concept of Mass: Program and Definition", Synthese,
vol.18 (1968), pp.216-233.
8. Discussion - Review of M.Mandelbaum, Science, Perception and Reality,
Journal of Philosophy, Jan.30, 1969, vol.LXVI, no.2, pp.43?58.
9. "The Law of Inertia: Some Remarks on Its Structure and its Significance,"
in Philosophy, Science, and Method: Essays in Honor of Ernest Nagel,
eds. S.Morgenbesser, P.Suppes, and M.White, St. Martin's Press, 1969,
pp.549-567.
10. "A Critique of P.Achinstein's Concept of Inference to Scientific
Laws,"in Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. V,
R.Stuewer (ed.), 1970, pp.104-107.
11. "Comments on K.Schaffner's Logic of Comparative Theory of Evaluation,"
in Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vo. V, R.Stuewer
(ed.), 1970, pp.363-373.
12. Review: R.Schock's, "Some Definitions
of Subjunctive Implication, of Counterfactual Implication, and of Related
Concepts," The Journal of Symbolic Logic ,XXXV,2 (1970).
13.
Review: R.Schock's, "On Determinism, the Universe, and Related
Concepts,", The Journal of Symbolic Logic ,XXXV,4 (1970).
14.
Review: R.Schock's "A Definition of Event and some of its Applications,"
The Jounal of Symbolic Logic, XXXV, 4 (1970).
15. "Commments Directed Mainly to Leo Steg's Contribution,"
in Proceedings of the Working Group in Philosophy, Science and Technology,
171 pp., held at MIT, with introductions by R.Miller, May 1971, pp.48-54.
16.
Review: R. Harre, The Principles of Scientific Thinking, in Isis, Dec.
1973, vol.64, no.224.
17. "More on 19(K): “Methodological Problems Concerning Selective
Explanation and the History of Science in China," in Journal of
Chinese Philosophy, vo. II, no.2 (1974), pp.181-196.
18. "Ontological and Ideological Issues of the Classical Theory
of Space and Time," in Motion and Time, Space and Matter, Interrelations
in the History and Philosophy of Science, eds. P.K.Machamer and R.G.Turnbull,
Ohio State University Press, 1976, pp.224-263.
19. "Quantity and Quality: Some Aspects of Measurement," in
Proceedings of the Philosophy of Science Association, PSA,1982, Volume
1, pp.183-198.
20. "Quantity and Supervenience," in How Many Questions -
Essays in Honor of Sidney Morgenbesser ,eds. L.S.Cauman, I.Levi, C.D.Parsons,
and R.Schwartz, Hackett Publishing Company, Indianapolis, 1983, pp.80-104.
21. Review: J.Yolton, Thinking Matter, Materialism in Eighteenth Century
Britain, in Isis, vol.77, no.286, March 1986, pp.15-16.
22. "Quantitative, but Non-Numerical Relations in Scientific Theory:
Eudoxus, Newton, and Maxwell." Minnessota Studies in Philosophical
and Foundational Issues in Measurement Theory, eds. C.W.Savage and P.
Ehrlich (1992). L. Erlbaum, Publishers, Hillsdale, N.J.
23. A Structuralist Theory of Logic. Cambridge
University Press, Dec.1992.
24. "The Implicational Nature of Logic: A Structuralist Account”
in A.Varzi (ed.), The European Philosophical Review (The Nature of Logic),volume
4, Stanford U. Press, 1999, pp.111-155.
25 "Truthlike and Truthful Operators",in
Between Logic and Intuition, Essays in Honor of Charles Parsons, (eds.)
G.Sher and R.Thiesen, Cambridge University Press,2000, pp.27- 53.
27. “Ontology and the Laws of Nature”, Proceedings of III
International Congress of Ontology and Nature, San Sebastian (1998),
Spain. V.G.Pin (Ed.) Number 1, 2000, Bilbao.
28. “Explanation and the Reduction of Possibilities”,
in Real Metaphysics,Essays in Honour of Hugh Mellor, eds. G. Rodriguez-
Pereyra, and H.Lillehammer.(Routledge Press, forthcoming)
29. “Laws and Possibilities” given
at a Symposium on Laws and the New Instrumentalism, and to appear in the
Proceedings of the Philosophy of Science Association, 2004.
Works-in-Progress:
1. Quantity and Quality, ms. 250 pp,, in second
draft.
2. The Robustness of Laws (in preparation).
3.
With Prof. Hugh Mellor, An Introduction to Probability for Philosophers,
(Contract with Routledge Press.)
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