John Henry McDowell,FBA is a South African philosopher,formerly a fellow of University College,Oxford,and now university professor at the University of Pittsburgh. Although he has written on metaphysics,epistemology,ancient philosophy,nature,and meta-ethics,McDowell's most influential work has been in the philosophy of mind and philosophy of language. McDowell was one of three recipients of the 2010 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's Distinguished Achievement Award,and is a Fellow of both the American Academy of Arts &Sciences and the British Academy.
Sir Peter Frederick Strawson was an English philosopher. He was the Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at the University of Oxford from 1968 to 1987. Before that,he was appointed as a college lecturer at University College,Oxford,in 1947,and became a tutorial fellow the following year,until 1968. On his retirement in 1987,he returned to the college and continued working there until shortly before his death.
Wilfrid Stalker Sellars was an American philosopher and prominent developer of critical realism,who "revolutionized both the content and the method of philosophy in the United States".
Ordinary language philosophy (OLP) is a philosophical methodology that sees traditional philosophical problems as rooted in misunderstandings philosophers develop by distorting or forgetting how words are ordinarily used to convey meaning in non-philosophical contexts. "Such 'philosophical' uses of language,on this view,create the very philosophical problems they are employed to solve."
Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe,usually cited as G. E. M. Anscombe or Elizabeth Anscombe,was a British analytic philosopher. She wrote on the philosophy of mind,philosophy of action,philosophical logic,philosophy of language,and ethics. She was a prominent figure of analytical Thomism,a Fellow of Somerville College,Oxford,and a professor of philosophy at the University of Cambridge.
Robert Boyce Brandom is an American philosopher who teaches at the University of Pittsburgh. He works primarily in philosophy of language,philosophy of mind and philosophical logic,and his academic output manifests both systematic and historical interests in these topics. His work has presented "arguably the first fully systematic and technically rigorous attempt to explain the meaning of linguistic items in terms of their socially norm-governed use,thereby also giving a non-representationalist account of the intentionality of thought and the rationality of action as well."
Carl Gustav "Peter" Hempel was a German writer,philosopher,logician,and epistemologist. He was a major figure in logical empiricism,a 20th-century movement in the philosophy of science. He is especially well known for his articulation of the deductive-nomological model of scientific explanation,which was considered the "standard model" of scientific explanation during the 1950s and 1960s. He is also known for the raven paradox.
Quentin Persifor Smith was an American philosopher.
Stephen Roy Albert Neale is a British philosopher and specialist in the philosophy of language who has written extensively about meaning,information,interpretation,and communication,and more generally about issues at the intersection of philosophy and linguistics. Neale is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Linguistics and holder of the John H. Kornblith Family Chair in the Philosophy of Science and Values at the Graduate Center,City University of New York (CUNY).
Paul Artin Boghossian is an American philosopher. He is Silver Professor of Philosophy at New York University,where he is chair of the department. His research interests include epistemology,the philosophy of mind,and the philosophy of language. He is also director of the New York Institute of Philosophy and Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of Birmingham.
Fred Feldman is an American philosopher who specializes in ethical theory. He is professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst,where he taught from 1969 until his retirement in 2013. His research primarily focuses on normative ethics,metaethics,the nature of happiness,and justice. He has long been fascinated by philosophical problems about the nature and value of death. He received a NEH research fellowship for the academic year of 2008/09;he received a Conti Faculty research fellowship for the academic year of 2013/14.
In analytic philosophy,philosophy of language investigates the nature of language and the relations between language,language users,and the world. Investigations may include inquiry into the nature of meaning,intentionality,reference,the constitution of sentences,concepts,learning,and thought.
John Patrick Hawthorne is an English philosopher,currently serving as Professor of Philosophy at the Australian Catholic University in Melbourne,and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California. He is recognized as a leading contemporary contributor to metaphysics and epistemology.
James Opie Urmson,was a philosopher and classicist who spent most of his professional career at Corpus Christi College,Oxford. He was a prolific author and expert on a number of topics including British analytic/linguistic philosophy,George Berkeley,ethics,and Greek philosophy.
Jay Frank Rosenberg was an American philosopher and historian of philosophy. He spent his teaching career at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,where he joined the Department of Philosophy in 1966 and was appointed Taylor Grandy Professor of Philosophy in 1987. Rosenberg was a student of Wilfrid Sellars and established his reputation with ten books and over 80 articles in metaphysics,epistemology,the philosophy of language,and the history of philosophy. His most commercially successful work,The Practice of Philosophy:A Handbook for Beginners,is a standard text in introductory philosophy courses,and has been translated into German.
Susan James is a British professor of philosophy at Birkbeck College London. She has previously taught at the University of Connecticut and the University of Cambridge. She is well known for her work on the history of seventeenth and eighteenth century philosophy.
Andrew Brook is a Canadian philosopher,author and academic particularly known for his writings on Immanuel Kant and the interplay between philosophy and cognitive science. Brook is Chancellor's Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Cognitive Science at Carleton University,former President of the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society,and former President of the Canadian Philosophical Association.
In the philosophy of language and metaphysics,metasemantics is the study of the foundations of natural language semantics. Metasemantics searches for "the proper understanding of compositionality,the object of truth-conditional analysis,metaphysics of reference,as well as,and most importantly,the scope of semantic theory itself" and asks "how it is that expressions become endowed with their semantic significance".
Friederike Moltmann is a linguist and philosopher. She has done pioneering work at the intersection of philosophy and linguistics,especially on the interface between metaphysics and natural language semantics,but also on the interface between philosophy of mind and mathematics. She is an important proponent of natural language ontology. She is currently Research Director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris.
