Associate Professor of Philosophy Jeff Maynes, along with Steve Gimbel of Gettysburg College, wrote Personal Memories of Early Analytic Philosophy: Analytic Logic/ Synthetic Lives, published by Palgrave Macmillan.
The book is a collection of interviews featuring philosophers, mathematicians, and their family members that tell the story of early 20th-century analytic philosophy in inter-war Germany and Austria. Philosophers Hans Reichenbach and Rudolf Carnap are among those featured.
Maynes’ research focuses on the study of what counts as a good philosophical argument. Maynes regularly teaches classes like “Reasoning, Environmental Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind,” and a First-Year Program (FYP) titled “Sherlock Holmes and the Art and Science of Reasoning.” He holds a Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University and a B.A. from Gettysburg College.