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Axel Mueller

Senior Lecturer
E-mail: muell@northwestern.edu

Ph.D. University of Frankfurt, specializes in philosophy of language and American pragmatism. He also has interests in the philosophy of science and Kant. He is the author of the book Referenz und Fallibilismus (DeGruyter, 2001), a study of Hilary Putnam's thought. He has published articles on the normative structure of inductive concepts and on the relations of scientific practice and realism. He is currently working on an extended analysis of the semantic basis of mental content externalism in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, as well as on the manuscript for a book on Pragmatism (Acumen Press). A longer standing project (within which he has forthcoming work on Quine's and Putnam's views of analyticity) is an investigation of the degree to which contextual elements in referring and scientific practice can disarm underdetermination arguments in the philosophy of science and of language.

CURRENT CV

 

Work

Books

• Referenz und Fallibilismus, De Gruyter: Berlin/New York, 2001.

Articles

• "Goodman, Nelson", in Koertge, N. (ed.), The New Dictionary of Scientific Biography, New York : Charles Scribner's Sons/MacMillan, 2007.
• "Realism, Beyond Miracles", co-authored with Arthur Fine, in Ben-Menahim, Y. (ed.): Contemporary Philosophy in Focus: Hilary Putnam, Cambridge MA : Cambridge University Press 2005, 83-124.
• "Pragmatismo y Naturalismo: dos programas filosóficos, un presente en duda", in Galán, F./Xolocotzi, A./De la Garza, M.T. (eds.), El Futuro de la Filosofía , Mexico City: Universidad Iberoamericana 2005, 81-96.
• "Some remarks on Semantic Externalism and Conceptual Pluralism ", Teorema XXII/3 (2003), 59-83.
• "Putnams pragmatischer Kognitivismus", in Willaschek, M./Rater, M.L. (eds.) Hilary Putnam und die Tradition des Pragmatismus, Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 2002, 65-87.
• "Self-Critical Theory. On the development of theory in Siegfried Kracauer's work", Teoría/Crítica 4 (1998), 281-314.
• "Natural Kinds and Projectible Predicates", Sorites 1 (1995), 1-36.

Work in Process

• "Kant's Semantic Externalism". This is a chunk on Kant and Semantic Externalism, which has far outgrown all its ancestors and will, eventually and hopefully, result in a couple of smaller pieces. Comments welcome; please ask me before citing or quoting.

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