Brief Curriculum Vitae

Senior Lecturer, Graduate Adviser, and Undergraduate Adviser

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Office: 2298 Social Science 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 and Neo-Platonic 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

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


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