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BiographyRichard Manning was born some time ago on Long Island, New York, and, having naturally enough assumed he would have a career in medicine, fell hard for philosophy in his first year of university, a romance his medically oriented family have come to accept, but not to understand. His undergraduate degree is from Northwestern University, whose philosophy department was predominantly continental in its emphasis. Not quite confident that a professor's lifestyle suited his tastes for luxury, fine food and wine, he attended law school, again at Northwestern, only to realize that he was much more interested in pursuing research for its own sake than for his clients', and that he was far more interested in epistemology and ontology per se than in the epistemology and ontology of law. So back he went for a PhD in philosophy, again at Northwestern, which by this time had become quite strong in analytic philosophy and philosophy of science. Manning completed his doctoral thesis on coherence theories of justification in 1992, after which time he had a formative years' experience as a lecturer at the University of Pittsburgh, where he learned an awful lot and also met his future wife. He has subsequently taught at the University of Oregon and Ohio University, and had visiting positions at the University of Victoria, Georgetown University, and The Johns Hopkins University. He has published articles and chapters on a wide range of figures and topics, including Spinoza, Kant, Davidson, McDowell, Rorty, epistemology, philosophy of language, philosophy of biology and aesthetics. He is a passionate cook, music lover, and under-funded audiophile. He also enjoys caring for and being awe-struck by the aforementioned wife and his 5-year-old son (who, aside from the thing about vegetables, is pretty fantastic), and interacting with their two flashy dogs, who are named after sushi. Research Interests
Manning is working on a typescript tentatively entitled "The Ontology of Interpretation", which presents and defends a quasi-Davidsonian, interpretivist account of meaning and the attitudes, in the context of a direct realist account of the contents of perceptual experience and judgment. 2007-08 CoursesOn teaching leave for 2007-08. Recent Publications
"The Philosophical Significance of Stephen Neale's Facing Facts", forthcoming in Preyer and Peter (eds.), Anti-Representationalism, Facts and Slingshots: On Stephen Neale's Facing Facts (special edition of Protosoziologie, 2006). "The Necessity of Receptivity: Exploring a Unified Account of Kantian Sensibility and Understanding", in Kukla, ed., Aesthetics and Cognition in Kant's Critical Philosophy (Cambridge University Press 2006), pp. 61-84. "Rationalism in the Philosophy of Donald Davidson" A Companion to Rationalism, A. Nelson, ed. (Blackwell 2005), pp. 468-487. |
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