Professor
Stephen Schiffer
New York University
Philosopher; Educator
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
Philosophy
Elected
2007
Influential work on speaker-meaning, expression-meaning, mutual knowledge, reference, compositional semantics, propositional content (theory of pleonastic propositions), the relation of psychological and semantic facts to underlying physical and functional facts, the semantics of propositional-attitude reports, Descartes, ceteris paribus laws and psychological explanation, skepticism, vagueness and partial belief (psychological theory of vagueness).
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