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Department of Philosophy
P.O. Box 5190
Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242
Phone: 330-672-2315 | Fax: 330-672-4867
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P.O. Box 5190
Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242
Phone: 330-672-2315 | Fax: 330-672-4867
Ask KSU Philosophy
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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