DEAN PETTIT Visiting Assistant  Professor

Dean Pettit has research interests in Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language, and Epistemology.  He is working now on the relationship between linguistic understanding and perceptual knowledge.  Sample publications:  “Why Knowledge is Unnecessary for Understanding Language,” Mind (2002); “It’s Not Easy Being Green: The Limits of Green Consumerism in Light of the Logic of Collective Action,” with J. P. Sheppard, Queens Quarterly (1994). [Complete CV] 

phone: (919) 962-3325
email: deanpettit@earthlink.net