Associate Professor of Philosophy Department of Philosophy Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, OH 43403 Office: 325 Shatzel Hall Office Phone: (419) 372-7216 email: mbelzer@bgnet.bgsu.edu

Professor Belzer joined the philosophy faculty in 1991 and was Chair of the Department from 1995-1999. He is a specialist in deontic logic and its applications to practical reasoning with defeasible normative principles. Current research interests also include metaphysics, especially personal identity, and buddhist meditation and philosophy.

Recent publications include "Deontic Logic" in The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy and "Deontic Logics of Defeasibility", co-authored with Barry Loewer, in Donald Nute (ed.), Defeasible Deontic Logic.

For work in progress, click here, including the experimental philosophical fiction, The Z-files and Dialogues on Personal Identity and Morality .

He recently gave talks at Rutgers and elsewhere on personal identity (see Parfit and Lewis on Survival of Fission and What Matters in Survival: Why Parfit won the Debate" ).

Professor Belzer teaches graduate courses in modal logic, personal identity, and metaphysics. He teachs undergraduate courses in meditation, logic, buddhist philosophy, and philosophy of mind. For his c.v., click here.

Department of Philosophy
305 Shatzel Hall,
Bowling Green State University,
Bowling Green, OH 43403.

Phone: 419-372-2117
Fax: 419-372-8191
Email: mdeluca@bgnet.bgsu.edu