Dr Arcady Blinov
Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, School of Humanities
Qualifications
MA (Novosibirsk), PhD (Moscow), DPhil (Moscow)
Contact
| Email: | ablinov@une.edu.au |
| Room: | E11 129 |
Areas of Teaching
Co-ordinator of: PHIL 102 'Critical and Creative Reasoning', and PHIL 385/485 'Reason and Choice: Individual,Social, Political'
Lecturer of: PHIL 102 'Critical and Creative Reasoning', PHIL 385/485 'Reason and Choice: Individual, Social, Political', PHIL 303/403 'Science v Religion: The Enlightenment and Beyond', PHIL 363 'Persons'
Research interests
My interests are theories of rationality and rational choice, philosophy of language and formal semantics.
General
One area of my long-standing research interest is logical analysis of natural languages. On one variety of such an analysis - namely, game-theoretical semantics - I published a series of articles and a book. My concern with the general problem of logical form in natural languages led me to develop a series of case studies of logical form of action sentences, and then to an investigation into metaphysics and ontology of human action, which took shape of another book and a couple of articles. Another line of research, which also originated from my interest in Philosophy of Language, has focused on the problem of linguistic intentionality. I treat the problem in my book Communication, Sounds, Meaning (1996). My further interests in philosophy include rationality of human action and the Prisoners’ Dilemma.
Before coming to the UNE in 1996, I was senior researcher at the Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, and lectured logic and philosophy in Russia’s Open University and Moscow State University (both Moscow).
Books:
Within Reason: Rational Choice and Logic, Pearson: Frenchs Forrest, NSW, 2002, 241 p. (with Dr Drew Khlentzos).
Communication, Sounds, Meaning, Russian Phenomenological Society Press, Moscow, 1996, 276 p. (in Russian)
Elements of the Logic of Actions, Nauka: Russian Academy of Sciences Press, Moscow, 1991, 232 p. (with Vasiliy Petrov, in Russian);
Semantics and Game Theory, Nauka: Russian Academy of Sciences Press, Novosibirsk Division, Novosibirsk, 1983, 129 p. (in Russian);
Book Chapters:
'Synergetics of collective irrationality' (in Russian), -Philosophy of Science; Issue 8: Synergetics of Human-Like Reality, Institute of Philosophy Press, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 2002.
'Theory of Compensatory Irrationality and Its Applications' (in Russian), - Values and World-Views in Contemporary Culture, Mysl': Moscow, 2004 (forthcoming).
Journal Articles:
‘Nested Supervaluations’ (in Russian), Filosofiya Nauki (Novosibirsk), 2004, 4 (23), pp.32-64.
‘Rationalities In Conflict: Compensatory Logico-Cognitive Irrationality in Interactive Contexts’, -Logical Investigations, Nauka: Moscow, Issue 10, 2003, pp.233-241.
‘Nested Supervaluations for Future Indefinite Contingent Vagueness’ - Logical Investigations, Nauka: Moscow, Issue 9, 2002, pp.310-317.
'Games with common belief on payoff function', -Logical Investigations, Nauka: Moscow, Issue 8, 2001, pp.278-281.
‘Semantic Games with Chance Moves’, Synthese, Dordrecht a.o., vol. 99, no.3, 1994, pp.311-327.
Refereed Conference Papers
‘Knowledge and Social Suboptimality’ – May, 2005. Presented at the International symposium Knowledge and Society, Moscow, Russia.