My name is Emerson P. Doyle. I hold an ongoing appointment as Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at Huron University College, where I teach The History of Scientific Thought, Introduction to Logic, Reality & What We Can Know of It, Origins of Analytic Philosophy, and a variety of other courses.

A while back I defended my Ph.D. in Philosophy of Science at Western University under the supervision of John L. Bell.

My dissertation develops a novel interpretation of Carnap’s philosophical program that places stress upon his methodological arguments for empiricism and conventionalism.  I argue that a reinvigorated notion of Carnap’s method of explication has much to offer as a philosophical tool for understanding the epistemic structure of our scientific and mathematical theories.