Charles B. Cross

MAY I INTRODUCE . . .

. . . Anthony Shiver, Ph.D. (AOS: metaphysics and logic). Anthony completed his dissertation on mereology and plural logic under my supervision in April 2015, and I am not the only one who thinks he does great work. The Philosophical Studies referee for this paper said, "I suspect the author's definition of atomism will become the standard one as soon as the paper is published."

COURSES:

As of June 1, 2016, I am retired from UGA and no longer teaching.

MY RESEARCH

• • I work on issues at the intersection of metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophical logic. I am especially interested in the logic and semantics of conditionals and in the roles conditionals play in metaphysical and epistemological issues. More recently I have become interested in the metaphysics of particulars in the context of modality.

Selected Publications

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Abstracts (and additional links) for many of the journal articles listed below can be found on PhilPeople.org.

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My Erdös Number is 4.

• • C. Cross, "Embedded Counterfactuals and Possible Worlds Semantics," Philosophical Studies 173: 665-673, 2016.

  • C. Cross, "Every Proposition is a Counterfactual," Acta Analytica 31:117-137, 2016.

  • C. Cross, "A Logical Transmission Principle for Conclusive Reasons," Australasian Journal of Philosophy 93: 353-370, 2015.

  • C. Cross and F. Roelofsen, "Questions," The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2016 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2016/entries/questions/>.

  • C. Cross, "The Paradox of the Knower Without Epistemic Closure - Corrected," Mind 121: 457-466, 2012.

  • C. Cross, "Brute Facts, the Necessity of Identity, and the Identity of Indiscernibles," Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 92:1-10, 2011.

  • C. Cross, "Comparative World Similarity and What is Held Fixed in Counterfactuals," Analysis 71:91-96, 2011.

  • C. Cross, "Causal Independence, the Identity of Indiscernibles, and the Essentiality of Origins," Journal of Philosophy 106:277-291, 2009.

  • C. Cross, "Conditional Excluded Middle," Erkenntnis 70:173-188, 2009.

  • C. Cross, "Nonbelief and the Desire-As-Belief Thesis," Acta Analytica 23:115-124, 2008.

  • C. Cross, "Antecedent-Relative Comparative World Similarity," Journal of Philosophical Logic 37:101-120, 2008.

  • C. Cross, "Conditional Logic and the Significance of Tooley's Example," Analysis 66:325-335, 2006

  • C. Cross, "A Formal Model of Holistic Epistemic Coherence," in Bryson Brown and François Lepage (eds.), Truth and Probability: Essays in Honour of Hugues Leblanc, (London: King's College Publications, 2005), pp. 111-122.

  • C. Cross, "A Correction to 'Nonmonotonic Inconsistency'," Artificial Intelligence 160:191-192, 2004

  • C. Cross, "More on the Paradox of the Knower without Epistemic Closure," Mind 113:109-114, 2004

  • C. Cross, "Relative Coherence and Cumulative Reasoning," in The Epistemology of Keith Lehrer, Erik Olsson (ed.), (Philosophical Studies Book Series, Kluwer Academic Publishers: Dordrecht, 2003), pp. 109-127

  • C. Cross, "Nonmonotonic Inconsistency," Artificial Intelligence 149:161-178, 2003

  • C. Cross, "Armstrong and the Problem of Converse Relations," Erkenntnis 56:215-227, 2002

  • C. Cross, "Doesn't-Will and Didn't-Did," Australasian Journal of Philosophy 80:101-106, 2002

  • C. Cross, "A Theorem Concerning Syntactical Treatments of Nonidealized Belief," Synthese 129:335-341, 2001 [IMPORTANT CORRECTION HERE.]

  • D. Nute and C. Cross, "Conditional Logic," in The Handbook of Philosophical Logic, Second Edition, Volume 4, Dov Gabbay and Franz Guenthner (eds.), (Kluwer: Dordrecht, 2001), pp. 1-98. (Revision of Nute's chapter from the first edition with a new 40+pp section on conditionals and the Ramsey Test written by Cross)

  • C. Cross, "The Paradox of the Knower Without Epistemic Closure," Mind 110:319-333, 2001

  • C. Cross, "A Characterization of Imaging in Terms of Popper Functions," Philosophy of Science 67:316-338, 2000

  • C. Cross, "Coherence and Truth Conducive Justification," Analysis 59:186-193, 1999

  • C. Cross, "The Modal Logic of Discrepancy," Journal of Philosophical Logic 26:143-168, 1997

  • C. Cross, "Max Black on the Identity of Indiscernibles," Philosophical Quarterly 45:350-360, 1995

  • C. Cross, "Probability, Evidence, and the Coherence of the Whole Truth," Synthese 103:153-170, 1995

  • C. Cross, "From Worlds to Probabilities: a Probabilistic Semantics for Modal Logic," Journal of Philosophical Logic 22:169-192, 1993

  • C. Cross, "Counterfactuals and Event Causation," Australasian Journal of Philosophy 70:307-323, 1992

  • C. Cross and R. H. Thomason, "Conditionals and Knowledge-Base Update," in Belief Revision: Cambridge Tracts in Theoretical Computer Science, Volume 29, ed. Peter Gärdenfors, (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1992), pp. 247-275

  • C. Cross, "Explanation and the Theory of Questions," Erkenntnis 34:237-260, 1991

  • C. Cross, "Temporal Necessity and the Conditional," Studia Logica 49:345-363, 1990

  • C. Cross, "Belief Revision, Nonmonotonic Reasoning, and the Ramsey Test," in Knowledge Representation and Defeasible Reasoning, ed. Henry E. Kyburg, Jr., et al, (Kluwer: Boston, 1990), pp. 223-244

  • C. Cross and R. H. Thomason, "Update and Conditionals," in Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, ed. Zbigniew Ras and Maria Zemankova, (North-Holland: Amsterdam, 1987), pp. 392-399

  • C. Cross, "'Can' and the Logic of Ability," Philosophical Studies 50:53-64, 1986

  • C. Cross, "Jonathan Bennett on 'Even If'," Linguistics and Philosophy 8: 353-357, 1985

Teaching Interests

Before retiring I regularly taught PHIL 2500 Symbolic Logic, PHIL(LING) 4510/6510 Deductive Systems, PHIL(LING) 4520/6520 Model Theory, and PHIL 8500 Seminar in Problems of Logic. I occasionally taught PHIL 3610 Theory of Knowledge, PHIL(LING) 8300 Seminar in the Philosophy of Language, and PHIL 8600 Seminar in Metaphysics.

I have directed graduate student research in metaphysics and in philosophical logic in the Ph.D. Program in Philosophy and in the M.A. Program in Philosophy. I have also served on thesis committees in the M.S. Program in Artificial Intelligence. Joint enrollment for the M.S. in Artificial Intelligence and the M.A. or Ph.D. in Philosophy is possible and represents a unique opportunity for prospective graduate students interested in logic and its applications.

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