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Chase  Wrenn

Chase Wrenn

Professor

Education

  • PhD, Washington University in St. Louis, 2001
  • MA, Washington University in St. Louis
  • BA, The University of Alabama, 1996

About


Dr. Wrenn’s research and teaching focus on truth, epistemology, and philosophy of mind and cognitive science. He has published articles on these topics in such journals as The Philosophical Quarterly, The Australasian Journal of Philosophy, and Erkenntnis. He edited “Naturalism, Reference, and Ontology,” a Festschrift for Roger Gibson published in 2008, and his book Truth was published in 2014.

Dr. Wrenn is the director of the department’s mind and brain specialization.

 

Spring 2024 Office Hours:

Tuesday 2:00pm-3:00pm and by appointment 

 

Selected Publications

  • “A Puzzle About Desire.” Erkenntnis, vol. 73 no. 2 (Sept. 2010), pp. 185–209.
  • “Practical Success and the Nature of Truth.” Synthese, vol. 181 no. 3 (Aug. 2011), pp. 451-470.
  • “The Unreality of Realization.” Australasian Journal of Philosophy, vol. 88 iss. 2 (June 2010), pp.
    305–322.
  • “Why there are no Epistemic Duties.” Dialogue: The Canadian Philosophical Review, vol. 46 (2007),
    pp. 115–136.
  • “Inter-world Probability and the Problem of Induction.” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 87 n.
    3 (2006), pp. 387–402.
  • “Epistemology as Engineering?” Theoria, vol. 72, part 1 (2006), pp. 60–79.
  • “Pragmatism, Truth and Inquiry.” Contemporary Pragmatism, vol. 2 n. 1 (June 2005), pp. 95–113.
  • “Truth and Other Self-effacing Properties.” Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 54 n. 217 (October 2004),
    pp. 577–586.
  • “Hypothetical and Categorical Epistemic Normativity.” The Southern Journal of Philosophy, vol.
    42 n. 2 (Summer 2004), pp. 273–290.
  • “Naturalistic Epistemology.” Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2003.
  • “Being and Knowledge: A Connoisseur’s Guide to Republic V.476e ff.” Apeiron v. 33 n. 2 (June
    2000), pp. 87–108.