Profiles


Thomas Michael Norton-Smith


Professor

Education:

  • University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana, Ph.D. 1988 Philosophy
  • Pittsburg State University, M.S. 1981 Mathematics
  • Missouri Southern State College, B.S. 1979 Mathematics
Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities

Selected Publications

Books

  • The Dance of Person and Place: One Interpretation of American Indian Philosophy, State University of New York Press, 2010.

    • Articles

  • "Indigenous Numerical Thought in Two American Indian Tribes," pp. 58-71 in Anne Waters (ed.) American Indian Thought: Philosophical Essays, Blackwell, 2004.
  • "What a Puzzle Teaches about Justifications For and Against the Use of American Indian Sports Team Imagery," Ayaangwaamizin: The International Journal of Indigenous Philosophy 3 (2003): 19-30.
  • "Consideration of the Use of Indian Sports Team Mascots," American Philosophical Association Newsletter on American Indians in Philosophy 1 (2001): 16-18.
  • "Sending an Irishman "Realing": Constructive Realism and George Berkeley's Philosophy of Arithmetic," The Midwest Quarterly 42 (2001): 199-211.
  • "Constructive Realism: A Euclidean Geometry of Action Kinds," Proceedings of the Ohio Philosophical Association (1994): 70-87.
  • "A Note on Philip Kitcher's Conception of Mathematical Truth," Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 33 (1992): 136-139.
  • "An Arithmetic of Action Kinds: Kitcher Gone Mad(dy)," Philosophical Studies 63 (1991): 217-230.
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    • Logic
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