Steve Giambrone

CURRICULUM VITAE

EDUCATION

B.A. (Philosophy - 1971) University of Southwestern Louisiana
M.A. (Philosophy - 1975) Louisiana State University
Ph.D. (Philosophy - l984) Australian National University

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

1998 - present. Associate Professor, Institute of Cognitive Science, UL Lafayette

1998 - 2000. Executive Committee Member, Institute of Cognitive Science, UL Lafayette

1994 - Present. Associate Professor, Philosophy Program, University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

1994 - 2001 Coordinator of Philosophy Program, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

1989 - 94. Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

1983-89. Instructor of Philosophy, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

1. Investigation of numeracy in chimpanzees.

2. Inference tickets and relevant logics.

PUBLICATIONS

Refereed Journal Articles

Povinelli, D. and Giambrone, S. “Reasoning About Beliefs: A Human Specialization?”, Child Development 72 (2001) 691-695.

Povinelli, Daniel, J., Berring, J. M., and Giambrone, S.. “Toward A Science of Other Minds: Escaping the Argument by Analogy”, Cognitive Science 24 (2000) 509-541.

Povinelli, D. and Giambrone, S. “Inferring Other Minds: Failure of the Argument by Analogy", Philosophical Topics 27 (1999) 167-201.

Loganantharaj, R., Dennis G. Lawler, and S. Giambrone. “Theory of Time: A General Approach”, Proceedings of the 1996 AAAI Workshop on Temporal and Spatial Reasoning.

Anthony S. Maida, S. Giambrone and Zhou Heng. "Naming Observed Objects", AAAI-LV, 1995.

Loganantharaj, R. and S. Giambrone. "Representation of and Reasoning With Near-Periodic Recurrent Events', IJCAI Workshop, 1995.

Loganantharaj, R. and S. Giambrone. "Probabilistic Approach for Representing and Reasoning with Repetitive Events", Florida AI Research Symposium, 1995.

Giambrone, S. "Language, Philosophy and Science", the introduction to Language, Philosophy, And Science, March 1994 issue of Topoi.

Mitra, Debasis, R. Loganantharaj and S. Giambrone. "Efficient Three-Consistency Algorithms", Florida AI Symposium, 1994.

Giambrone, S. "Real Reduced Models For Relevant Logics Without WI", Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 33 (1992) 442 - 449.

Giambrone, S. "Orlowska's Relevant Implication, Relevant Logics & Analytic Implication", Reports on Mathematical Logic 24 (1990) 37-47.

Giambrone, S. and R.K. Meyer. "Completeness & Conservative Extension Results for Some Boolean Relevant Logics", Studia Logica 48 (1989) 1-14.

Meyer, R. K., S. Giambrone, A. Urquhart. and Martin, E.P. "Further Results on Proof Theories for Semilattice Logics", Zeitschrift fur Mathematische Logik und Grundlagen der Mathematik 34 (1988) 301-304.

Giambrone, S. and A. Kron. "Four Relevant Gentzen Systems", Studia Logica 46 (1987) 55-71.

Giambrone, S., R. K. Meyer and A. Urquhart. "A Contractionless Semilattice Semantics", Journal of Symbolic Logic 52 (1987) 526-529.

Giambrone, S. and A. Urquhart. "Proof Theories for Semilattice Relevant Logics", Zeitschrift fur Mathematische Logik und Grundlagen der Mathematik 33 (1987) 301-304.

Giambrone, S. "A Critique of Decision Procedures for Two Positive Relevant Logics", Reports on Mathematical Logic 19 (1986) 13-16.

Giambrone, S. "On Purported Gentzen Formulations of Two Positive Relevant Logics", Studia Logica 44 (1985) 233 - 36.

Giambrone, S. "TW+ and RW+ Are Decidable", Journal of Philosophical Logic 14 (1985) 235-54.

Meyer, R. K., S. Giambrone and R. Brady. "Where Gamma Fails", Studia Logica 43 (1984) 27-56.

Meyer, R. K. and S. Giambrone. "Strict Implication in T", Logique et Analyse 94 (1981) 267-79.

Meyer, R. K. and S. Giambrone. "R+ is Contained in T+", Bulletin of the Section of Logic of the Polish Academy of Sciences 9 (1980) 30-33.

Edited Volumes and Contributions to Books

Povinelli, D.J., Bering, J., Giambrone, S. “Chimpanzee “Pointing”: Another Error of the Argument by Analogy?”, in S. Kita, ed., Pointing: Where Language, Culture, and Cognition Meet (Cambridge: Cambridge U Press) 2003.

Giambrone, S., and D.J. Povinelli. “Consciousness”, Encyclopedia of Evolution, Oxford University Press, 2002, in press.

Faragher, S.G., R. Jaeger, and S. Giambrone. “Philosophy of Science, Value Judgment, and the Concept of Declining Amphibian Populations”, in Mike Lanoo, ed., Status and Conservation of US Amphibians, 2001.

Giambrone, S. “Relevant Logics & Inference Tickets”,in J. Woods and Bryson Brown, ed., Logical Consequence: Rival Approaches and New Studies in Exact Philosophy: Logic, Mathematics and Science ( Oxford:Hermes Science Publishers) 2000.

Povinelli, Daniel J. & Steve Giambrone. “Escaping the Argument by Analogy”, in Daniel J. Povinelli, Folk Physics For Apes: Chimpanzees, Tool Use, and Causal Understanding (Oxford, Oxford University Press) 2000.

Povinelli, Daniel J. & Steve Giambrone. “The Tool - Insertion Problem: The Question of Shape”, in Daniel J. Povinelli, Folk Physics For Apes: Chimpanzees, Tool Use, and Causal Understanding ( Oxford, Oxford University Press) 2000.

Povinelli, Daniel J., James E. Reaux, Laura A. Theall, and Steve Giambrone. “The Rope, Hook, Touching-Stick and Related Problems: The Question of Physical Connection”, in Daniel J. Povinelli, Folk Physics For Apes: Chimpanzees, Tool Use, and Causal Understanding (Oxford, Oxford University Press) 2000.

Povinelli, Daniel J., James E. Reaux, Laura A. Theall, and Steve Giambrone. “The Support Problem: Physical Connection Revisited”, in Daniel J. Povinelli, Folk Physics For Apes: Chimpanzees, Tool Use, and Causal Understanding (Oxford, Oxford University Press) 2000.

Povinelli, Daniel J., James E. Reaux, Laura A. Theall, and Steve Giambrone. “The Question of Tool-Modification”, in Daniel J. Povinelli, Folk Physics For Apes: Chimpanzees, Tool Use, and Causal Understanding (Oxford, Oxford University Press) 2000.

Giambrone, S., ed. Logic, Philosophy, And Science. March 1994 issue of Topoi.

Giambrone, S. "Decision Procedures for Contractionless Relevant Logics", in Entailment, vol. 2, Alan Ross Anderson, Nuel D. Belnap, Jr. and J. Michael Dunn, Princeton (Princeton U. Press) 1993.

Giambrone, S. "A Bibliography of Paraconsistent Logic", in Paraconsistent Logic, ed. Graham Priest, Richard Routley, and Jean Norman, Munich (Philosophia Verlag) 1987.

Reviews and Abstracts

Giambrone, S. “Review of ‘Relevant Conditionals, and Relevant Application Thereof’”, Zentralblatt fur Mathematik (2000).

Povinelli, Daniel J, Theodore J. Povinelli, and S. Giambrone. “Review of Reaching Into Thought: The Minds of the Great Apes”, Trends in Cognitive Science 2 (1998) 158-59.

Giambrone, S. "A Review of Swirdowicz’s ‘A Remark on the Maximal Extensions of the Relevant Logic R’”, Zentralblatt fur Mathematik (1997).

Giambrone, S. "Review of ‘Rules in Relevant Logic I: Semantic Classification’", Zentralblatt fur Mathematik 1995.

Giambrone, S. "Review of ‘Relational Proof System for Relevant Logics’", Zentralblatt fur Mathematik 1995.

Giambrone, S. "Review of 'The Strong Relevance Logics'", Zentralblatt fur Mathematik 1995.

Giambrone, S. "Review of 'Rules in Relevant Logic II: Formula Representation'", Zentralblatt fur Mathematik 1995.

Giambrone, S. "A Review of `Korner's Criterion of Relevance And Analytic Tableau'", Zentralblatt fur Mathematik (1994).

Giambrone, S. "A Review of `Simplified Semantics For Basic Relevant Logics'", Zentralblatt fur Mathematik (1994).

Giambrone, S. "A Review of `Real Reduced Models for Relevant Logics Without WI'", Zentralblatt fur Mathematik (1994).

Giambrone, S. "A Review of Directions in Relevant Logic", Zentralblatt fur Mathematik (1992).

Giambrone, S. "A Review of 'Gentzenization and Decidability of Some Contraction-less Relevant Logics'", Zentralblatt fur Mathematik (1992).

Giambrone, S. "A Review of 'Interpretation of Relevant Logics in a Logic of Ternary Relations'", Zentralblatt fur Mathematik (1992).

Giambrone, S. "A Review of 'Peirced Clean Through'", Zentralblatt fur Mathematik (1992).

Giambrone, S. "A Review of 'A Content Semantics for Quantified Relevant Logic II'", Zentralblatt fur Mathematik (1991).

Giambrone, S. "A Review of 'Modularity and Relevant Logic'", Zentralblatt fur Mathematik (1991).

Giambrone, S. "A Review of 'Completeness and Conservative Extension Results for Some Boolean Relevant Logics'", Zentralblatt fur Mathematik (1991).

Giambrone, S. "A Review of 'R--Algebras and R--Model Structures as Power Algebras'", Zentralblatt fur Mathematik (1991).

Giambrone, S. "A Review of 'Solution to a Problem of Ono and Komori'", Zentralblatt fur Mathematik (1990).

Giambrone, S. "A Review of 'A Content Semantics for Quantified Relevant Logic I'", Zentralblatt fur Mathematik (1990).

Giambrone, S. "A Review of 'Operational Semantics for Positive R'", Zentralblatt fur Mathematik (1990).

Giambrone, S. "A Review of 'Natural Deduction and Sequent Calculus for Intuitionistic Relevant Logic", Zentralblatt fur Mathematik (1989).

Giambrone, S. "A Review of 'Reduced Models for Relevant Logics Without WI", Zentralblatt fur Mathematik (1989).

Giambrone, S. "A Review of Automatic Theorem Proving In Non-Classical Logic, (solicited) The American Scientist, November 1989.

Giambrone, S. "A Review of 'Relevance and Disjunctive Syllogism'", Zentralblatt fur Mathematik (1989).

Giambrone, S. "A Review of 'Incompleteness of the Bibinary Semantics for R'", Zentralblatt fur Mathematik (1989).

Giambrone, S. "A Review of 'A Relevant Logic Based on Semantic Relevance Criteria'", Zentralblatt fur Mathematik (1989).

Giambrone, S. "Review of 'Four Relevant Gentzen Systems'", Zentralblatt fur Mathematik (1988).

Giambrone, S. "A Review of 'Reply to Burgess and Read'", Zentralblatt fur Mathematik (1988).

Giambrone, S. "A Review of 'Proof Theories for Semilattice Relevant Logics'", Zentralblatt fur Mathematik (1988).

Giambrone, S. "A Review of 'On Purely Relevant Logics'", Zentralblatt fur Mathematic (1988).

Giambrone, S. "A Review of 'A Farewell to Entailment'", Zentralblatt fur Mathematik (1988).

Giambrone, S. "A Review of 'Sentential Constants in R and R '", Zentralblatt fur Mathematik (1988).
Giambrone, S. "A Review of 'A Contractionless Semilattice Semantics'", Zentralblatt fur Mathematik (1988).

Giambrone, S. "A Review of 'Further Results On Proof Theories For Semilattice Logic'", Zentralblatt fur Mathematik (1988).

Giambrone, S. "A Review of 'A Constructive Analysis of RM'", Zentralblatt fur Mathematik (1988).

Giambrone, S. "A Review of 'Survey of Generalisations of Urquhart
Semantics'", Zentralblatt fur Mathematik (1988).

Giambrone, S. "A Review of 'A Critique of Decision Procedures for Two Positive Relevant Logics'", Zentralblatt fur Mathematik (1987).

Giambrone, S. "A Review of 'Conservative Extension in Relevant Arithmetic'", Zentralblatt fur Mathematik (1987).

Giambrone, S. "A Review of 'TW+ and RW+ Are Decidable'" Zentralblatt fur Mathematik 587 (1984) 20.

Giambrone, S. "Gentzenization and Decision Procedures for Positive Relevant Logics", (abstract), Bulletin of the Section of Logic of the Polish Academy of Sciences 11 (1982) 169 - 75.

PAPERS DELIVERED

Giambrone, S. “Pure Implication in I”, 2000 Meeting of the Society for Exact Philosophy, Gainesville, FL, March 2000.

Giambrone, S. “Inference Tickets: A New & Better Approach to Ticket Entailment”, 1999 Meeting of the Society for Exact Philosophy, Lethbridge, Alberta, May 1999.

Giambrone, S. “Inference Tickets and Relevant Logics”, 1998 Meeting of the Society for Exact Philosophy, Athens, GA, May 1998.

Giambrone, S. “A Primer in the Philosophy of Science”, Meeting of the USL Evolutionary Biology Group, Lafayette, April, 1998.

Giambrone, S., Anthony S. Maida and Zhou Heng. "Recovering from Referent Misidentifications Without An Explicit Theory of Belief", Meeting of the Society for Exact Philosophy, Calgary, 1995.

Giambrone, S. "Causal Reference and No Knowledge, I & II", meetings of the USL Cognitive Science Group, March 1992.

Giambrone, S. "On a Proposed Algebraic Solution to An Open Problem in Relevant Logic", seminar of USL Mathematics Department, March, 1991.

Giambrone, S. "Semantics for Relevant Logics", meeting of the USL Cognitive Science Group, Lafayette, LA, February 1991.

Giambrone, S. "Relevant Logics I and II", meetings of the USL Cognitive Science Group, Lafayette, LA, November 1989 and March 1990.

Giambrone, S. "The Logics of Relevance Criteria", meeting of The Society For Exact Philosophy, Edmonton, Alberta, August 1989.

Giambrone, S. "Gentzen Systems", Philosophy Seminar, Louisiana State Univeristy at Baton Rouge, March 1987.

Giambrone, S. "On Distributive Semilattice Semantics", Automated Reasoning Project Seminar, Canberra, August 1986.

Giambrone, S. "Relevant Logics: Philosophy and Pragmatics", Philosophy Seminar, Univeristy of Adelaide, Adelaide, July 1986.

Giambrone, S. "Consolidating Semilattice Results", Automated Reasoning Project Seminar, Canberra, 1986.

Giambrone, S. "On the Decidability of RW+ and TW+ I and II", Seminars of the Logic Group, RSSS, ANU, 1982; Australasian Association of Logic Conference, Canberra, 1982; Philosophy Seminar, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, 1983, Logic Seminar, Jagiellonian Univeristy, Krakow, Poland, 1983, and Logic Seminar, Wroclaw University, Wroclaw, Poland, 1983.

Giambrone, S. "Semilattice Semantics of uRW+", Logic Group Seminar, RSSS, ANU, 1982.

Giambrone, S. "Subscripted Gentzen Systems I, II and II", Seminars of the Logic Group, RSSS, ANU, November, 1981 and February 1982.

RESEARCH GRANTS AND AWARDS

LEQSF Research Grant, "Temporal Reasoning and Problem Solving" (with Rajah Loganantharaj as co-pi), 1993 -1995.

LEQSF Enhancement Grant, "Instructional Microcomputing Resources for a Humanities Learning Center at the University of Southwestern Louisiana. (With James McDonald as PI, Sherri Condon and David Barry as other co-PI’s), 1994.

Visiting Fellowship, Automated Reasoning Project, Australian National University, Summer 1986.

University of Southwestern Louisiana Summer Sabbatical, 1992.

University of Southwestern Louisiana Faculty Research Grant, 1984-85, and 1985-86.

NEH Summer Stipend, 1984.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Member of the executive committee of the Institute of Cognitive Science, 1998 - 99.

Peer reviewer for Journal of Philosophical Logic, Journal of Symbolic Logic, Reports on Mathematical Logic, Studia Logica

Member of review staff of Zentralblatt fur Mathematik, 1987 - 1999.

Secretary of The Society For Exact Philosophy, 1992-96.

Co-coordinator, Cognitive Science Research Focus Area in CACS, 1991-93.