School of Humanities

School of Humanities

Professor Dorothy Grover

Position

  • Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at Canterbury
  • Professor Emeritus at University of Illinois at Chicago

Contact Details

d.grover@slingshot.co.nz

Background

Dorothy has published extensively philosophical logic, formal logic and is originator of the prosentential theory of truth.

Recent Publications

A Prosentential Theory of Truth, Princeton University Press, 1992. i-xii + 288 pp. i-xii, 288.

"Propositional Quantifiers", Journal of Philosophical Logic, Vol. 1, pp. 111-136, 1972.

"`This is False' on the Prosentential Theory", Analysis, Vol. 36, pp. 80-83, 1976.

"Inheritors and Paradox", Journal of Philosophy, Vol. LXXIV, pp. 500-604, 1977.

"Berry's Paradox", Analysis.  Vol. 43, pp. 170-176, 1983.

"Truth and Language-World Connections," Journal of Philosophy, 87, pp. 671-87, 1990.

"First Degree Entailments in E," in Entailment Vol II, by Belnap, Anderson, and Dunn, Princeton University Press, 1992, pp.33-45.

Forthcoming

"On Locating Our Interest in Truth," in What is Truth? ed., Richard Schantz. Berlin and New York: De Gruyler.

"The Prosentential Theory: Further Reflections on Locating Our Interest in Truth," in The Nature of Truth: From the Classic to the Contemporary, ed., Michael P. Lynch. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.