Professor of Philosophy
B.A., University of Illinois
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Professor Vision works in the areas of analytic metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century philosophy, and topics in recent moral philosophy. He is on the editorial board of The American Philosophical Quarterly. Professor Vision is also the Chair of the Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium.
Selected Bibliography
Veritas: the Correspondence Theory and its Critics (The MIT Press, 2004)
Problems of Vision (Oxford University Press, 1996)
“Perceptual Experience and Belief,” Perception and Reality, ed. by Ralph Schumacher (Mentis Verlag, 2003)
“Lest We Forget the Correspondence Theory of Truth,” Analysis, vol. 63 (2003), 136-42
"Perceptual Content,” Philosophy, vol. 73 (1998), pp. 395-427
Modern Anti-Realism and Manufactured Truth (Routledge, 1988)
Recent Courses
· Theories of Truth
· Later Wittgenstein
· Epistemology
· Early Modern Philosophy: Descartes, Locke, Hume
· Philosophy of Language
Contact Information
Office: 742 Anderson Hall
Mailing Address:
Department of Philosophy
Anderson Hall
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA 19122
Phone: (215) 204-8291
gvision@temple.edu
http://astro.temple.edu/~gvision/