John Horty received his BA in Classics and Philosophy from Oberlin College and his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh; he is currently a Professor in the Philosophy Department and the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) at the University of Maryland, as well as an Affiliate Professor in the Computer Science Department. His primary interests are in philosophical logic, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science more generally; he has secondary interests in the philosophy of language, practical reasoning, and ethics. Horty is the author of two books (Agency and Deontic Logic, Oxford, 2001; Frege on Definitions, Oxford, 2007) as well as papers on a variety of topics in logic, philosophy, and computer science; he is currently an Editor of the Journal of Philosophical Logic . Prior to coming to Maryland, Horty taught in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. His work has been supported by two fellowships from the National Endowment for Humanities and several grants from the National Science Foundation.

A curriculum vitae is available as a pdf file.

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