Overview
Ph.D. The Johns Hopkins University (1975)
Areas of Interest: Philosophy of Language, Epistemology, Philosophy of Logic; currently working on Donald Davidson on objectivity and belief.
Professor Deborah Soles routinely teaches Introductory Logic, and is responsible for Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Logic, Theory of Knowledge, Analytic Philosophy, and offers special courses such as seminars on Davidson and Wittgenstein. Professor Soles received her B.A. from George Washington University and her Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University. She has been teaching continuously at WSU since 1975. Her major research area is the philosophy of language and adjacent topics in epistemology and logic, and she has published work on both historical and contemporary treatments of these topics. Currently she working on a book on Donald Davidson's epistemology. Since coming to WSU she has taught some dozen and a half different courses. She has served several times as an Emory Lindquist Honors program mentor, as a McNair program mentor, in 1999 was awarded the college's John R. Barrier Distinguished Teaching Award, and in 2008 was awarded the University Excellence in Teaching Award. In 1998 she received the President's Award for Distinguished Service to WSU. Dr. Soles is a Past President of the Southwestern Philosophical Society, and served as President of the Faculty Senate in 2009-2010.