
Senior Lecturer and Undergraduate Adviser
Brief Curriculum Vitae
Office: 2298 Social Sciences and Humanities Building
Phone: (530) 554-4950
E-mail: gjmattey@ucdavis.edu
Ph.D.: University of Pittsburgh, 1979
Dissertation: "The Idealism of Kant and Berkeley," directed by Wilfrid Sellars
Areas of Specialization: 17th and 18th century European philosophy, epistemology, logic
Joined the UC Davis Philosophy Faculty: 1977
2009-2010 Course Schedule
Fall
22 History of Philosophy: Early Modern
102 Theory of Knowledge
Winter
112 Intermediate Symbolic Logic
290 History of Philosophy
Spring
174 Hume
189C Topics in Theory of Knowledge
Other Courses
1 Introduction to Philosophy
21 History of Philosophy: Ancient
113 Metalogic
114 History of Ethics
134 Modal Logic
143 Hellenistic Philosophy
151 Nineteenth Century European Philosophy
156 Contemporary Analytic Philosophy
157 Twentieth Century European Philosophy
168 Descartes
170 Leibniz
175 Kant
202 Theory of Knowledge Seminar
275 Kant Seminar
Recent Publications
"Self-Trust and the Reasonableness of Acceptance," in Erik J. Olsson, ed., The Epistemology of Keith Lehrer, Dordrecht, 2003
Currently Supervising Dissertations
None
