Daniel Rothschild (philosopher)

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Daniel Rothschild
Born1979
Education Princeton University (Ph.D.)
Yale University (B.A.)
Awards Arts and Humanities Research Council fellowship
Deforest Senior Prize in Mathematics
Era 21st-century philosophy
Region Western philosophy
School Analytic
Institutions University College London
Thesis Semantic Interactions: Descriptions and their Neighbors  (2006)
Doctoral advisor Gilbert Harman
James Pryor
Delia Graff Fara
Main interests
philosophy of language
Website http://danielrothschild.com/

Daniel Henry Rothschild (born 1979) is an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy of Language at University College London Department of Philosophy. He is known for his expertise on philosophy of language. Rothschild has held various fellowships from the Arts and Humanities Research Council and is a Fifty-Pound fellow of All Souls College. [1] [2]

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References

  1. "Daniel Rothschild to join our Department in 2013". philosophy.columbia.edu. Archived from the original on 2018-12-21. Retrieved 2018-11-10.
  2. "All Souls College Oxford". www.asc.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 10 November 2018.