Stephen Barker

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Stephen Barker, Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Johns Hopkins University, received his B.A. from Swarthmore and Ph.D. from Harvard University. He served as a visiting professor at Harvard and taught at the University of Virginia and Ohio State University before coming to Hopkins. He taught in the areas of the history of modern philosophy, the theory of knowledge, and applied ethics.

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• Induction and Hypothesis
• Philosophy of Mathematics
• Elements of Logic
• The Legacy of Logical Positivism (editor)
• Thomas Reid: Critical Interpretations (editor)
• John Wisdom's Proof and Explanation (editor)
• "Beauty and Induction in Kant's Third Critique" (article)
• "What is a Profession?" (article)
• "Carnap's Principle of Tolerance" (article)