Michael J. Pendlebury, Professor of Philosophy and Head of the Department of Philosophy and Religion mjpendle@ncsu.edu

Michael Pendlebury was born in 1948 near Johannesburg, South Africa, where his roots go back to the British settlement of the Eastern Cape in1820. His parents were employed in the gold mining industry, and he worked in the administrative offices of a Johannesburg mining-finance corporation for three years before studying Philosophy. He was a student at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (one of the few universities to oppose the Apartheid Government’s efforts to segregate higher education) from 1970 to 1975 (BA, BAHons, MA in Philosophy). He went on to graduate school at Indiana University, Bloomington (1975–79: MA, PhD in Philosophy, MA in Linguistics). He has taught Philosophy at Illinois State University (1979/80), the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg (1980–83) and the University of the Witwatersrand , Johannesburg (1984–2003), where he was Professor and Head of Philosophy when he left to join NC State in January 2004. He was Editor of the international journal Philosophical Papers from 1986 to 1998. His philosophical interests include metaphysics and epistemology, philosophy of mind and language, metaethics, and political philosophy.

Select Publications

“Indexical Reference and the Ontology of Belief,” South African Journal of Philosophy 1 (1982), 65–74.
“How Demonstratives Denote,” Southern Journal of Philosophy 22 (1984), 91–104.
“Against the Power of Force: Reflections on the Meaning of Mood,” Mind 95 (1986), 361–372.
“Facts as Truthmakers,” The Monist 69 (1986), 177–188.
“The Projection Strategy and the Truth Conditions of Conditional Statements,” Mind 98 (1989), 179–205.
“Sense Experiences and their Contents: A Defence of the Propositional Account,” Inquiry 33 (1990), 215–230.
“Content and Causation in Perception,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 54 (1994), 767–785.
“Making Sense of Kant’s Schematism,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 55 (1995), 777–797.
“Intentionality and Normativity,” South African Journal of Philosophy 17 (1998), 142–151.
“Against the Careerist Conception of Well-Being,” Philosophical Forum 31 (2000), 1–10.
“In Defense of Moderate Neutralism,” Journal of Social Philosophy 33 (2002), 360–376.
“ ‘Ought’ Judgments and Motivation,” American Philosophical Quarterly 39 (2002), 183–196.
“Individual Autonomy and Global Democracy,” Theoria (South Africa) 103 (2004), 43–58.
“Global Justice and the Specter of Leviathan,” Philosophical Forum 38 (2007), 43–56.
“Objective Reasons,” forthcoming in Southern Journal of Philosophy, volume 45, number 4 (December 2007).
“How to Be a Normative Expressivist,” forthcoming in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.