Gary H. Merrill

I hold a BS degree in philosophy from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, concentrating in mathematical logic and philosophy of language, and a PhD in philosophy from the University of Rochester with specialization in logic, philosophy of language and philosophy of science. I enjoyed teaching philosophy at the undergraduate and graduate levels at Loyola University of Chicago for a decade, but decided to leave my tenured Associate Professor position to apply my philosophical skills in business and industry, working first as a formal language designer and developer, and then moving into the pharmaceutical industry to apply artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, cognitive science, and formal ontology in such areas as intelligent information extraction from text and data, drug safety and drug discovery, and semantic technologies involving the use of formal ontologies in the empirical sciences. See Philpapers.org and ResearchGate.net for a list of my publications.