i’m a philosopher at rutgers. sometimes i spend time here and sometimes there.

| g i l - ē z | or | g i l - i s | ?

the ‘a’, ‘n’, and ‘h’ in anthony are all silent. so is the ‘7’, but that is also invisible. and anthony is usually spelled thony. the ‘e’ in gillies is also silent — someone once told me it’s a scottish thing — but that never affects the spelling.

p a t h

i used to teach at the university of michigan, harvard, and the university of texas at austin (not all at once, though). i was a graduate student at arizona (bear down). john pollock directed my dissertation.

you can see some stuff about my research or my teaching or my hobbies. my philosophical lineage goes like this

gillies --> pollock --> adams --> suppes
--> nagel --> cohen --> royce --> morris
--> trendelenburg --> reinhold --> kant
--> knutzen --> wolff --> leibniz

my erdős number ≤ 5