Senior Lecturer, Graduate Adviser, and Undergraduate Adviser

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Office: 2298 Social Science and Humanities Building

Phone: (530) 752-0609

E-mail: gjmattey@ucdavis.edu

Ph.D.: University of Pittsburgh, 1979

Dissertation: "The Idealism of Kant and Berkeley," directed by Wilfrid Sellars

Areas of Specialization: 17th and 18th century European philosophy, epistemology, logic

Joined the UC Davis Philosophy Faculty: 1977

2008-2009 Course Schedule

Fall
168 Descartes
102 Theory of Knowledge

Winter
112 Intermediate Symbolic Logic
114 History of Ethics

Spring
22 History of Philosophy: Early Modern
175 Kant

Other Courses
1 Introduction to Philosophy
21 History of Philosophy: Ancient
113 Metalogic
134 Modal Logic
143 Hellenistic and Neo-Platonic Philosophy
151 Nineteenth Century European Philosophy
156 Contemporary Analytic Philosophy
157 Twentieth Century European Philosophy
170 Leibniz
174 Hume
189C Topics in Theory of Knowledge
202 Theory of Knowledge Seminar
290 History of Philosophy

Recent Publications

"Self-Trust and the Reasonableness of Acceptance," in Erik J. Olsson, ed., The Epistemology of Keith Lehrer, Dordrecht, 2003

Currently Supervising Dissertations

None