Peter Stone
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Peter Stone (1971 - )
Stone, the son of Joan and Frank Stone, was born in Malverne, New York. In 2005 he married Rachel Murray, a Canadian, and they resided in California until a separation in 2008.
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Education
At Pennsylvania State from 1991 to 1993, he taught calculus, analytic geometry, and Critical Thinking in the Social Sciences. He graduated Magna Cum Laude with honors in 1993 from Pennsylvania University. His Senior Honors Thesis was "Towards the Empowerment of Labor: The Allende Experience."
In 1996 he received his M.A. from the University of Rochester's Department of Political Science, specializing in political philosophy, positive political theory, and methods.
In the University of Rochester's Department of Political Science, he was a teaching assistant, an instructor, and an adjunct assistant professor from 2001 to 2003, teaching contemporary political theory, law and authority, game theory and the law, anarchism, and applied data analysis.
Stone attended graduate school in political science at the University of Rochester, receiving his M.A. in 1996 and his Ph.D. in 2000. His dissertation was entitled "The Luck of the Draw: Revisiting the Lot as a Democratic Institution." He taught a number of courses at Rochester until 2003, when he moved to Stanford University.
He is currently an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Stanford University, on sabbatical stating in 2007. His current research interests include theories of justice, democratic theory, rational choice theory, the philosophy of social science, and the philosophy of Bertrand Russell.
In 1990, Stone joined the Bertrand Russell Society and has served on its Board of Directors since 1996. In addition to serving as Secretary of the Society and Board and as editor of the Bertrand Russell Society Quarterly, Stone is a founding member of both the Greater Rochester Russell Set (GRRS) and the Bay Area Russell Set (BARS). He frequently lectures on Russell.
Asked in 2006 if any political or philosophic labels characterize his present views, Stone replied,
- I greatly admire Bertrand Russell, Noam Chomsky, and John Dewey. All three embody the sort of principled life of the public intellectual to which I aspire. I once heard Russell described as possessing a "liberal anarchist, leftist, and skeptical atheist temperament." I can only hope to be worthy of such a description myself.
Selected Academic Publications
An introduction to Ernest Callenbach and Michael Phillips, A Citizen Legislaturea (Imprint Academic, 2008) [1]
"Russell, Mathematics, and the Popular Mind," in Russell Revisited: Critical Reflections on the Thought of Bertrand Russell (edited by Alan Schwerin and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing in 2008) [2]
"Why Lotteries Are Just," Journal of Political Philosophy 15, no. 3 (2007): 276-295 Review of Democracy Defended by Gerry Mackie. Public Choice 125:3-4 (December 2005): 471-475.
"On Linking Cognitive Mechanisms to Game Play." Politics and the Life Sciences 22 (September 2003): 33-40"
Ray Monk and the Politics of Bertrand Russell." Russell n.s. 2(Summer 2003): 82-91.
"The Impossibility of Rational Politics?" Politics, Philosophy and Economics, 2 (June 2003): 239-263.
Book Reviews
Review of Democracy Defended by Gerry Mackie. Public Choice 125:3-4 (December 2005): 471-475.
Review of Justice and Democracy edited by Keith Dowding, Robert E. Goodin, and Carole Pateman. Perspectives on Politics 3:3 (September 2005): 614-615.
“Hanging Out with Russell, Brando, and Lennon.” Russell n.s. 25:1 (Summer 2005): 91- 93.
Review of Rationalizing Capitalist Democracy by S.M. Amadae. Perspectives on Politics 2, no. 2 (June 2004): 347-348.
“Russell in the Philippines.” Russell n.s. 23 (Winter 2003-2004): 183-185.
“Ray Monk and the Politics of Bertrand Russell.” Russell n.s. 23 (Summer 2003): 82-91.
Correspondence
Asked about humanism, Stone responded:
(See Dr. Stone's website, that includes his curriculum vitae. WAS, numerous discussions)
