Thomas Michael Norton-Smith

Associate Professor, Stark Campus

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

Areas of Scholarly/Teaching Interest:

Philosophy of Mathematics, American Indian Philosophy, Logic, Metaphysics

Selected Publications:

Books

Book Chapter: “Indigenous Numerical Thought in Two American Indian Tribes.” In Anne Waters (Ed.). American Indian Thought: Philosophical Essays. Blackwell Publishers. (2004): 58-71.

Articles

1. "Constructive Realism: A Euclidean Geometry of Action Kinds," Proceedings of the Ohio Philosophical Association (1994): 70-87.
2. "A Note on Philip Kitcher's Conception of Mathematical Truth," Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 33 (1992): 136-139.
3. "Meaning as a Kind of Mental Representing," Proceedings of the Ohio Philosophical Association (1992): 23-37.
4. "An Arithmetic of Action Kinds: Kitcher Gone Mad(dy)," Philosophical Studies 63 (1991): 217-230.
5. "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.
6. “A Consideration of the Use of Indian Sports Team Mascots,” American Philosophical Association Newsletter on American Indians in Philosophy, 1 (2001): 16-18.
7. “Sending an Irishman “Realing”: Constructive Realism and George Berkeley’s Philosophy of Arithmetic,” The Midwest Quarterly, 42 (2001): 199-211.
8. "Constructive Realism: A Euclidean Geometry of Action Kinds," Proceedings of the Ohio Philosophical Association (1994): 70-87.
9. "A Note on Philip Kitcher's Conception of Mathematical Truth," Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 33 (1992): 136-139.
10. "An Arithmetic of Action Kinds: Kitcher Gone Mad(dy)," Philosophical Studies 63 (1991): 217-230.

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