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Matthew Moore

Assc Professor   Department: Philosophy   Location: 3308 Boylan Hall   Phone: 718-951-5311   Fax: 718-951-4675   Email:

I was born and raised in Southern California, and received my bachelor's degree in English from UC Berkeley. Before returning to graduate school to study philosophy, I worked as a database programmer and technical manager. Education: DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS - 2000 (PHILOSOPHY) Areas of Expertise: I specialize in logic and philosophy of mathematics. I have published on nonstandard analysis and on the philosophy of set theory. My current research concerns the philosophy of mathematics of the American philosopher C.S. Peirce. Books and Publications Peirce on Perfect Sets, Revised. Forthcoming in Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2009 C.S. Peirce on the Philosophy of Mathematics: Selected Writings, forthcoming from Indiana University Press. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2007 Naturalism, Truth and Beauty in Mathematics. Philosophia Mathematica (III) 15 no 2 (June 2007):141-165. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2007 New Essays on the Mathematical Philosophy of C.S. Peirce, forthcoming from Open Court. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2007 On Peirce's Discovery of Cantor's Theorem. Cognitio 8(2):223-248, 2007. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2007 The Completeness of the Real Line. Critica 39 (no 117):61-86 (December 2007). (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2007 The Genesis of the Peircean Continuum. Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 43(4):425-469, 2007. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2007 Naturalizing Dissension. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 87:325-334. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2006 A Cantorian Argument against Infinitesimals. Synthese 133:305-330, 2002. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2002 Archimedean Intuitions. Theoria 68:185-204, 2002. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2002 Awards, Honors and Fellowships PSC-CUNY 39 Research Award, 2008-2009. (Grants and Fellowships) 2008 Rodney G. Dennis Fellowship in the Study of Manuscripts, Houghton Library, Harvard University, 2008. (Grants and Fellowships) 2008 PSC-CUNY 37 Research Award, 2006-2007. (Grants and Fellowships) 2006 PSC-CUNY 35 Research Award, 2004-2005. (Grants and Fellowships) 2004 Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums Peirce on Perfect Sets, Revised. New York Pragmatist Forum, New York, September 2008. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008 On Peirce's Proofs of Cantor's Theorem. Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society, Arlington, November 2007. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2007 Peirce's Cantor. AMS-MAA Special Session on History of Mathematics, Joint Mathematics Meetings, New Orleans, January 2007. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2007 Cardinality and Confusion in the Peircean Continuum. AMS-MAA Special Session on History of Mathematics, Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Antonio, January 2006. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2006 Mathematical Realism, Abductively: Fall 2006 Philosophy Colloquium Series, CUNY Graduate Center, September 2006. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2006 Naturalism, Truth and Beauty in Mathematics. Spring Meeting of the Association for Symbolic Logic, San Francisco, March 2005. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2005 Naturalizing Dissension. Fifth Midwest Philosophy of Mathematics Workshop, Notre Dame, November 2004. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2004 Mathematical Realism and Set Theoretic Practice. Fourth Midwest Philosophy of Mathematics Workshop, Notre Dame, November 2003. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2003 Professional Leadership Executive Committee, Charles S. Peirce Society, 2008-present. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2008 Chapter President, Phi Beta Kappa, 2007-present. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2007 Departmental Core Coordinator, 2007-2008. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2007 Member of Department Appointments Committee, 2007-present. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2007 Delegate to Faculty Council, 2006-present. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2006 Deputy Chair, Philosophy Department, 2006-present. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2006 Member of IT Planning Subcommittee. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2006 Member of Middle States Steering Committee, 2006-2009. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2006 Chair of Department Outcomes Assessment Committee, 2005-present. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2005 Chapter Vice-President, Phi Beta Kappa, 2005-2007. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2005 Department Representative, PSC-CUNY, 2005-2009. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2005 Member of Department Search Committee, 2005, 2006, 2007. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2005 Member of Outcomes Assessment Task Force, 2005-2008. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2005 Strategic Planning Committee, "Engaged Intellectual Community." (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2005 Department Library Liaison, 2004-2005. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2004 Department Technology Supervisor, 2004-2007. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2004 Department Treasurer, 2004-2008. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2004 Member of Advisory Committee on Academic Computing, 2004-2007. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2004 Member of Department Subcommittee, Writing-Intensive Major. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2004 Member of Faculty Council on Committee Computer Utilization and Educational Technology, 2004-2005, 2006-2008. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2004 Member of Selection Committee, Phi Beta Kappa, 2004-2007 (Chair, 2005-2007). (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2004 Member of Student Technology Fee Committee, 2004-2008. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2004 Member of Teaching, Learning Technology Roundtable, 2004-2007. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2004 Member of Department Curriculum Committee, 2003-2004, 2005-present. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2003 Other Professional Activities Referee for Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society. 2007 Reviewer for National Science Foundation, Science and Society Program. 2007 Contributing Editor, Peirce Edition Project, 2006-present. 2006 Referee for Erkenntnis 2004 Referee for Synthese 2003