Martin Bunzl Professor I Director, Rutgers Initiative on Climate Change and Social Policy Contact Information Office: Eagleton Institute of Politics Email: Phone: (732) 932-9384

Education

B.A., University of Minnesota; Ph.D., University of Minnesota

Speciality

Phil. of Science

Research

The current focus of my work is on the social dimensions of climate change. Most of my research has been on the methodological assumptions and ontological commitments of different areas of the social sciences. I am also working (with Anthony Appiah) as co-editor of a volume on issues in the ethics and economics of slave redemption (to be published by Princeton University Press 2007), and (with Stephen Hanson) as co-editor of a volume on methodological challenges in current imaging research (under contract to MIT Press).

Publications

Books Real History (London: Routledge, 1997) The Context of Explanation (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic, 1993) Articles "Laws without Possibility", Philosophia, Vol. 31, 2004, 475-485. "Counterfactual History: A User's Guide", American Historical Review, Vol. 109, 2004, pp. 845-858. "Real World Epistemic Under-determination", Philosophia, Vol. 31, 2004, 139-147. "Conventions Made too Simple?", Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Vol. 33, 2003, pp. 417-426 (with Richard Kreuter). "Evolutionary Games without Rationality?", Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Vol. 32, 2002, pp. 365-378. "Baseball and Biology", Philosophia, Vol. 27, 1999, pp. 575-580. "The Construction of History", Journal of Women's History, Vol. 9, 1997, pp. 119-131. "The Logic of Thought Experiments", Synthese, Vol. 106, 1996, pp. 227-240. "How to Change the Unchanging Past", Clio, Vol. 25, 1996, pp. 181-194. "Non-cognitive Meaning Revisited", Canberra Anthropology, Vol.19, 1996, pp. 1-14. "Archaeology without Excess", Philosophical Forum, Vol.27, 1995, pp. 27-36. "Pragmatism to the Rescue?", Journal for the History of Ideas, Vol. 20, 1995, pp.675-680. "Meaning's Reach", Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior, Vol. 24, 1994, pp.267-280. "Scientific Abstraction and the Realist Impulse", Philosophy of Science, Vol. 61, 1994, pp.449-456, reprinted in A.Zucker, ed., Science and Its Philosophies (New York: Prentice Hall, 1995). "Reductionism & The Mental", American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 24, 1987, pp. 181-190. "Bunzl On Sorenson's Thought Experiments", Informal Logic, Vol. 17, 1995, pp. 388-393. "A Causal Model for Causal Priority", Erkenntnis, Vol. 21, 1984, pp. 31-44. "Causal Factuals", Erkenntnis, Vol. 21, 1984, pp. 367-384. "Social Kinds", in O.Neumaier, ed., Mind, Language and Society (Vienna: VWGOE, 1984), pp. 138-144. "Humean Counterfactuals", Journal for the History of Philosophy, Vol. 20, 1982, pp. 171-177. "The Meaning of Meaningful Behavior", Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior, Vol. 12, 1982, pp. 21-27. "A Note on Doing", Dialogue, Vol. 19, 1980, pp. 629-631. "Causal Preemption and Counterfactuals", Philosophical Studies, Vol. 37, 1980, pp. 629-631. "Comment on 'Health as a Theoretical Concept'", Philosophy of Science, Vol 49, 1980, pp. 116-118. "Causal Overdetermination", Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 76, 1979, pp. 134-150. "Is Development Deviant?", Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior, Vol. 8, 1979, pp. 333-340. "Logic, Language and Piaget: A Comment on Johnson", Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Vol. 8, 1978, pp. 63-65, (authored with my students). "Enhancement of Maturity of Moral Judgment by Parent Education", Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, Vol. 5, 1977, pp. 177-186, (with Wirt and Coder). "The Moral Development of Moral Philosophers", Journal of Moral Education, Vol. 7, 1977, pp. 3-8. "A Note on Nursing Ethics", Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol. 1, 1976, pp. 184-186.