Paul Rusnock
Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy
Director of Graduate Studies
Member of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies and thereby authorized to supervise theses.
Office: ARTS 220
Telephone: 613-562-5800, ext. 3681
E-mail: prusnock@uOttawa.ca
University degrees
PhD in Philosophy, University of Waterloo
MA, BSc, University of Toronto
Fields of interest
- Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic
- Epistemology and History of Science
- Austrian Philosophy
- Modern Philosophy
Ongoing research
- (With Jan Sebestik) a general introduction to Bolzano's philosophy
- (With Rolf George) a complete English translation of Bolzano's Wissenschaftslehre ( Theory of Science)
Courses taught
- PHI2170 Logic I
- PHI3171 Logic II
- PHI3382 Kant
- PHI5341 Logic and Philosophy of Science I
Selected publications
(Avec Rolf George) " Bolzano's Political Philosophy,'' in M. Textor ed. The Austrian Contribution to Analytic Philosophy (London: Routledge, 2006), pp. 264--292
(Avec Angus Kerr-Lawson) " Bolzano and Uniform Continuity," Historia Mathematica 32 (2005) 303-311.
P. Rusnock, "Was Kant's philosophy of mathematics right for its time?'' Kantstudien 95 (2004) 426-442
(Avec Rolf George) P. Rusnock, "Bolzano as Logician,'' in D. Gabbay and J. Woods eds., Handbook of the History and Philosophy of Logic, Vol. 3 (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2004), p. 177--205.
« Qu'est-ce que la représentation ? Bolzano et la philosophie autrichienne, » Philosophiques 30 (2003) 67-81.
« La théorie des intuitions chez Bolzano, » in D. Fisette and S. Lapointe ed. Aux origines de la phénoménologie : Husserl et le contexte des recherches logiques (Québec: Presses de l'Université Laval, 2003), p. 111--123
Bolzano 's Philosophy and the Emergence of Modern Mathematics (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2000).
Translations
(With Rolf George) Bernard Bolzano, On the Mathematical Method and Correspondence with Exner (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2004).
(With Rolf George) Bernard Bolzano, Selected Writings on Ethics and Politics (Amsterdam: Rodopi, in press).
