Michael Kremer is the Mary R. Morton Professor of Philosophy and in the College. He received his PhD from the University of Pittsburgh in 1986; prior to joining the University of Chicago he taught at the University of Notre Dame. His research focuses on the history of analytic philosophy, especially Frege, Russell, and the early Wittgenstein. His current project is on the philosophy of Gilbert Ryle, with special reference to the knowing how/knowing that debate. He also has long-standing interests in logic and the philosophy of language, as well as the relationship between reason and religious faith.
Selected Publications
"Ryle's 'Intellectualist Legend' in Historical Context," The Journal of the History of Analytical Philosophy 5(5) (2017): 16-37. DOI 10.15173/jhap.v5i5.3204 Link
"'One of my feet was still pretty firmly encased in this boot': Behaviorism and The Concept of Mind," in Analytic Philosophy: An Interpretive History, Aaron Preston, ed. (Routledge, 2017)
"A Capacity to Get Things Right: Gilbert Ryle on Knowledge," European Journal of Philosophy (2016) - online first. DOI 10.1111/ejop.12150 Link
"Ideology and Knowledge-How: A Rylean Perspective," Theoria (Spain) 31 (2016): 295-311, DOI 10.1387/theoria.16292 Link
“Acquaintance, Analysis, and Knowledge of Persons in Russell,” in Acquaintance, Knowledge, and Logic: New Essays on Bertrand Russell’s The Problems of Philosophy, B. Linsky and D. Wishon, eds. (Stanford: CSLI Publications, 2015)
“The Whole Meaning of a Book of Nonsense: Introducing Wittgenstein’s Tractatus,”Oxford Handbook of the History of Analytic Philosophy, M. Beaney, ed. (Oxford University Press 2013) (PDF)
“What is the Good of Philosophical History?”, in The Historical Turn in Analytic Philosophy, E. Reck, ed. (Palgrave MacMillan, 2013) (PDF)
“Russell’s Merit,” in Wittgenstein’s Early Philosophy, J. Zalabardo, ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012) (PDF)
"Representation or Inference" in Reading Brandom, edited by Bernhard Weiss and Jeremy Wanderer, Routledge, 2010 (PDF)
Sense and reference: the origins and development of the distinction, The Cambridge Companion to Frege, T. Ricketts and M. Potter, eds. (PDF)
Media
Michael Kremer's Recorded Lecture - Link
For full list of Michael Kremer's courses back to the 2012-13 academic year, see our searchable course database.