University of Maryland Department of Philosophy

Department of Philosophy: People: Core Faculty: S. Jack Odell

S. Jack Odell (PhD University of Illinois) is an Associate Professor of Philosophy. Professor Odell works in the theory of meaning, Wittgenstein, metaphilosophy, and Twentieth Century philosophy. He was a Visiting Professor at Trinity College, University of Dublin, in 1987. He spent a year at the IBM Systems Research Institute in New York City in 1980-81, as both a Research Consultant and Visiting Professor.

E-mail: sjodell@umd.edu


Representative Publications

On Russell, Wadsworth Publishing Company, 2000

The Owl of Minerva: Philosophers on Philosophy (with Charles Bontempo), McGraw-Hill, 1975.

"Practice Consequentialism: A New Twist on an Old Theory," Utilitas, Vol. 13, 2001.

"A Paraphrastic Theory of Meaning," Theoretical Linguistics, Vol. 11, No. 3 1984.

"Life is Not Absurd," Metaphilosophy, Vol. 14, No. 3/4, 1983.

"A Paraphrastic Criterion for Difference of Sense," with J. Kress, Theoretical Linguistics, Vol. 9, No. 2/3 1982.

"Nonsense," Metaphilosophy, January 1971.