Randall R. Dipert

C.S. Peirce Professor of American Philosophy
University at Buffalo

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About Me

I have taught at the (SUNY) University at Buffalo since 2000. Previously I taught at SUNY Fredonia (1977-1995) and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point (1995-2000). I am co-editor of the Transactions of the C.S. Peirce Society

My research interests include the history and philosophy of logic, Peirce and Early American Pragmatism, logic and the philosophies of logic and mathematics, the philosophy of artifacts, aesthetics, action theory, and metaphysics, especially the metaphysics and logic of relations. I also have interests in ethics and political philosophy and most recently, in the philosophy of war and peace (Just War theory) and value-theoretic implications of computational results, especially of the Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma.

I have written articles for Encyclopedia Britannica, the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, as well as for several anthologies and a number of professional journals in philosophy. I have for some time written my own logic teaching software, and have also written a number of programs (in Prolog and LISP) for computer-assisted research in logic and philosophy. I have authored one book (on artifacts) and co-authored another (a logic textbook). I am currently at work on a book on metaphysics as well as a historically- and philosophically-oriented textbook in logic.