Samuel C. Wheeler III
Department of Philosophy, U-2054
University of Connecticut
344 Mansfield Rd.
Storrs, CT 06269-2054
U.S.A. (860) 486-3592

Education:

B.A. Carleton College, June 1966
Ph.D. Princeton University, June 1970 Doctoral Dissertation: The Logical Form of Ethical Language: Radical Translation, Morals, and the Good

Publications:

Book:

Deconstruction as Analytic Philosophy, Stanford University Press, Spring 2000.

Articles:

"Attributives and their Modifiers", Nous, Vol. Vl, No. 4, November 1972, pp.310-334.

"Inference and the Logical 'Ought'", Nous, Volume Vlll, No. 3, September 1974, pp. 233-258.

"Reference and Vagueness", Synthese, Volume 30, 1975, pp.367-379.

"The Theory of Matter from Metaphysics Zeta, Eta and Theta", International Studies in Philosophy, IX, 1977, pp.l3-22.

"Quantification in English", Philosophia, Volume 8, No. 1, October, 1978, pp.31-42.

Samuel C. Wheeler and Tolhurst, William, "On Textual Individuation", Philosophical Studies 35, (1979), pp.l87-197.

"On That Which is Not", Synthese 41, 1979, pp.155-173.

"Natural Property Rights as Body Rights", Nous, Volume XIV, No 2, May 1980, pp. 171-194. Reprinted in The Main Debate, edited by Tibor Machan, Random House, New York, 1987.

"Megarian Paradoxes as Eleatic Arguments", American Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 20, No. 3, July 1983, pp. 287-295.

"The Conclusion of the Theaetetus" History of Philosophy Quarterly, Volume 1, No. 4, October 1984, pp. 355-357.

"Persons and their MicroParticles", Nous, Volume XX, Number 3, September 1986, pp. 333-349.

"The Extension of Deconstruction", The Monist, Volume 69, Number 1, January 1986, pp. 321. Reprinted in Czech, with commentary and translation by Jaroslav Peregrin, Filosof CAS, 44(6), pp. 943-967, 1996.

"Wittgenstein as Conservative Deconstructor," New Literary History, Volume 19, Number 2, Winter 1988, pp. 239-258.

"Luddism Reappraised: A Philosophy for the Nineties," Changing Work, Fall, 1988, pp. 52-55

"Plato's Enlightenment", in History of Philosophy Quarterly, Vol. 14, No. 2, April 1997, pp. 177-188.

"Reparations Reconstructed", in American Philosophical Quarterly , Volume 34, No. 3, July, 1997, pp. 301-318.

"Self-Defense and Coerced Risk Acceptance", in Public Affairs Quarterly, Volume 11, Number 4, October 1997, pp. 431-443.

"Derrida's Difference and Plato's Different", forthcoming in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, December 1999.

"Arms as Insurance", forthcoming in Public Affairs Quarterly, April 1999.

Chapters of Books:

Wheeler, Samuel C. III, "How Paintings Can Be Joyful", in Essays in Honor of Martin Eshleman, Carleton College, 1971, pps. 83-95.

"Indeterminacy of Radical Interpretation and the Causal Theory of Reference", in Meaning and Translation, edited by F. Guenthner and M. Guenthner-Reutter, London: Duckworth, 1978, pp. 83-94.

"Indeterminacy of French Interpretation: Derrida and Davidson", in Truth and Interpretation: perspectives in the Philosophy of Donald Davidson, edited by Earnest Lepore, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1985, pp. 477-494.

"Metaphor in Davidson and DeMan", in Minnesota UP anthology, Redrawing the Lines, edited by Reed Way Dasenbrock, U of Minnesota Press, 1989, pp. 116-139. Reprinted in German translation in Die Paradoxe Metapher, ed. Anselm Haverkamp, Frankfurt/Main; Suhrkamp Verlag 1998.

"Truth Conditions, Rhetoric and Logical Form: Davidson and Deconstruction," in Literary Theory after Davidson, edited by Reed Way Dasenbrock, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993, pp. 144-159.

"True Figures", in The Interpretive Turn, Edited by Hiley, et al., Cornell UP, 1991, pp. 197-217.

Critical Studies and Reviews: Wheeler, Samuel C. III, "Wilson's The Mental As Physical", Nous, Volume XVIII, Number 1, March 1984, pp. l45-151.

"A Deconstructive Wittgenstein?" in Annals of Scholarship, Volume 4, Number 2, Winter 1987, pp. 65-79.

"Wong's Moral Relativity," in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. XLVII No. 4, June 1987, pp. 664-670.

Contributions to Encyclopedias and Dictionaries:

Article on "Deconstruction" in Audi, ed., Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy. (350 words), in press.

300 word article of "Derrida" for Dancy and Sosa's Companion to Epistemology, Blackwells, 1992.

2000 word article on Davidson on Metaphor, for Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, Garland, 1995.

Editing: Wheeler, Samuel C. Ill, and Troyer, John, editors, Intentionality, Language and Translation, a special issue of Synthese, Vol 27, nos 3/4, July/August 1974, pp. 307-534.