Department of Philosophy, Texas A&M University, College Station TX 77843-4237
979/845-5660, fax 979/845-0458, Email mhand@tamu.edu

EDUCATION

Ph.D. (Philosophy), Florida State University, 1985
M.A. (Philosophy), University of South Carolina, 1983
B.S. (Psychology), University of South Carolina, 1975

AOS       Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Logic, Metaphysics
AOC      Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology, Philosophy of Science

TEACHING POSITIONS

Professor, Texas A&M University (1997-present)
Associate Professor, Texas A&M University (1992-1997)
Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University (1989-1992)
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina (1988-89)
Assistant Professor, University of Oklahoma (1987-89)
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Oklahoma (1985-87)
Instructor, Florida State University (1985)
Instructor, Florida A&M University (1984-85)

PUBLICATIONS

          Semantics and Philosophy of Language

"Informational Variability," Synthese 99(1994):417-56.

"Demonstrative Reference and Unintended Demonstrata," Communication and Cognition 26(1993):37-48.

"Parataxis and Parentheticals," Linguistics and Philosophy 16(1993):495-507.

"More on Pronouns of Address and Truth Conditions," Linguistics 31(1993):749-51.

"Meaning, Truth-Conditions, and Substitutional Quantification," Philosophical Studies 68(1992):195-216.

"On Saying That Again," Linguistics and Philosophy 14(1991):349-65.

"Antirealism and Holes in the World," Philosophy 65(1990):218-24.

"Who Plays Semantical Games?" Philosophical Studies 56(1989):251-71.

"The Dependency Constraint: A Global Constraint on Strategies in Game-Theoretical Semantics," Linguistics and Philosophy 11(1988):395-413.

"Game-Theoretical Semantics, Montague Semantics, and Questions," Synthese 74(1988):207-22.

"Other and Else: Restrictions on Quantifier Domains in Game-Theoretical Semantics," Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 28(1987):423-30.

"Semantical Games, Verification Procedures, and Wellformedness," Philosophical Studies 51(1987):271-84.

"Semantical Games for Negated Belief-Attributions," Theoretical Linguistics 13(1986):211-23.

          Philosophy of Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics

"Knowability and Epistemic Truth," Australasian Journal of Philosophy (forthcoming).

"Radical Antirealism and Neutral States of Information," Philosophical Topics (forthcoming)

"Antirealism and Falsity," in Gabbay (ed.), What is Negation? (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

"Surveyability and the Preface Paradox," Southwestern Philosophical Review (forthcoming).

"What the Null Set Could Not Be," Australasian Journal of Philosophy 73(1995):429-31.

"Mathematical Structuralism and the Third Man," Canadian Journal of Philosophy 23(1993):179-92.

"A Defense of Branching Quantification," Synthese 95(1993):419-32.

"Negations in Conflict," Erkenntnis 38(1993):115-29.

"Classical and Intuitionistic Negation," Southwest Philosophy Review 8(1992):157-64.

"Kitcher's Circumlocutionary Structuralism," Canadian Journal of Philosophy 21(1991):81-90.

"Hilbert's Iterativistic Tendencies," History and Philosophy of Logic 11(1990):185-92.

"A Number is the Exponent of an Operation," Synthese 81(1989):243-65.

"Infinite Totalities and the New Intuitionism," Idealistic Studies 18(1988):230-38.

"How Game-Theoretical Semantics Works: Classical First-Order Logic," Erkenntnis 29(1988):77-93.

"Inference and Strategy-Conversion," Proceedings of the 1986 Conference on Inference (Athens, OH: Ohio University).

          Textbook

Logic Primer (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992), co-author Colin Allen.

          Reviews and Abstracts

Essay review (invited) of Neil Tennant, Antirealism and Logic. History and Philosophy of Logic 10(1989):67-75.

Review (invited) of Radu Bogdan, editor, Jaakko Hintikka. Canadian Philosophical Reviews 8(1988):84-86.

Review (invited) of Jaakko Hintikka and Jack Kulas, The Game of Language. Canadian Philosophical Reviews 6(1986):154-57.

Abstract of "Inference and Strategy-Conversion," proceedings of the Eighth International Congress of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science (Moscow 1987), 241-44.

PAPERS READ

"Radical Antirealism and Neutral States of Information," APA (Chicago), Apr 1996.

"Branching Quantifiers vs. Negative Concord," SECOL (College Station), Mar 1996.

"Surveyability and the Preface Paradox," APA (San Francisco), Apr 1995; Southwestern Philosophical Society (Austin), Nov 1995.

"Radical Antirealism and Wright's Antideflationary Argument," Dept of Philosophy, Univ of Arkansas, April 1995.

"Falsity," invited paper at the Univ of Cincinnati conference on Significance in Semantics, October 1994.

Comments on Mark Lance, "the Logical Generation of Truth Conditions: A Back-Handed Justification of Classical Deduction," APA (Los Angeles), Mar 1994.

"Unspeakable Metaphysics," Dept of Philosophy, Univ of Arkansas, Spring 1994; Dept of Philosophy, Texas A&M Univ, Fall 1991.

Comments on Art Skidmore, "What are Truth Conditions?", Southwestern Philosophical Society (New Orleans), November 1993.

Comments on Joan Weiner, "Fregean Concepts and Semantics," APA (Chicago),Apr 1992.

"Classical and Intuitionistic Negation," Southwestern Philosophical Society (Ft. Worth) Nov 1991.

"Mathematical Structuralism and the Third Man," Dept of Philosophy, Texas A&M Univ, Sept 1989.

"A Number is the Exponent of an Operation," Dept of Philosophy, Univ of Iowa, Jan 1989.

"Who Plays Semantical Games?" Dept of Philosophy, Texas A&M Univ, Jan 1989; Dept of Philosophy, Univ of NC, Oct 1988.

"What Is (Game-Theoretical) Semantics?" 2^nd Linguistics Forum, Univ of Oklahoma, Fall 1988.

Comments on William Morris, "Information and the Ebb of Knowledge," Eastern APA, Dec 1987.

"Semantics and LF," Dept. of Philosophy, Florida State University, Oct 1987.

"Scientific Realism and Partial Interpretation," Dept of Philosophy, Univ of Oklahoma, Fall 1986; Dept of Philosophy, Oklahoma State Univ, Spring 1987.

"Inference and Strategy-Conversion," Ohio University Conference on Inference, Oct 1986.

"Two Approaches to Questions," Conference on Information-Seeking through Questioning, Florida State Univ, Apr 1985.

"Meaning, Names, and Numbers," Dept of Philosophy, Florida State Univ, Spring 1984.

COURSES TAUGHT

          Graduate seminars

Texas A&M Univ: Metaphysics; Philosophy of Linguistics; Mathematical Logic; Applied Logic; Philosophy of Language.

Univ of North Carolina: The New Antirealisms.

Univ of Oklahoma: Metaphysics; Frege & Wittgenstein; Philosophy of Mathematics (2-semester independent study).

          Upper-level undergraduate

Texas A&M Univ: Symbolic Logic II; Philosophy of Language; Recent British & American Philosophy; Professional Ethics.

Univ of North Carolina: Epistemology; Philosophy of Science.

Univ of Oklahoma: Philosophy of Science; Logic and Scientific Method; Animals, the Environment, and Morality; Death & Dying.

          Lower-level undergraduate

Texas A&M Univ: Intro to Logic; Intro to Philosophy; Contemporary Moral Issues.

Univ of North Carolina: Intro to Philosophy.

University of Oklahoma: Intro to Logic.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Session chair ("Lost in Space: Gendering Cyberspace"), Interdisciplinary Group for Historical Literary Study Biennial Conference ("Virtual Gender"), College Station, Mar 1996.

Session chair, Southwest Philosophy Society, San Antonio, Fall 1994.

Editor, special issue of Synthese devoted to game-theoretical semantics (June 1994).

Participant, NEH Summer Seminar: "Frege and the Philosophy of Mathematics," Univ of North Carolina, 1988 (Michael Resnik, director).

Research Assistant, NSF Grant #IST-8310936, "Questioning as a Knowledge-Seeking Activity," Florida State Univ, 1984-85 (Jaakko Hintikka, principal investigator).

DISSERTATION: "Negation in English: An Essay in Game-Theoretical Semantics" (Jaakko Hintikka, supervisor)

MASTER'S THESIS: "Essentialism and the Problem of Transworld Identity in Quantified Modal Logic" (Barry Loewer, supervisor)

PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC HONORS

          Professional

Associates' Distinguished Lecturer, Univ of Oklahoma (1987-88)

          Academic

University Fellow, Florida State Univ (1981-85)

Phi Kappa Phi, Florida State Univ (1984)

Phi Beta Kappa, Univ of South Carolina (1975)

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