Emma Borg is a professor of philosophy at the University of Reading. She specialises in philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of cognitive science. [1]
Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski is an American philosopher. She is the George Lynn Cross Research Professor, as well as Kingfisher College Chair of the Philosophy of Religion and Ethics, at the University of Oklahoma. She writes in the areas of epistemology, philosophy of religion, and virtue theory. She was (2015–2016) president of the American Philosophical Association Central Division, and gave the Gifford Lectures at the University of St. Andrews in the fall of 2015. She is past president of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, and past president of the Society of Christian Philosophers. She was a 2011–2012 Guggenheim Fellow.
David Schmidtz is a Canadian-American philosopher serving as Kendrick Professor of Philosophy and Eller Chair of Service-Dominant Logic at the University of Arizona, and editor-in-chief of the journal Social Philosophy and Policy. He was also the inaugural head of the Department of Political Economy and Moral Science at the University of Arizona.
Robert C. Stalnaker is an American philosopher who is Laurence S. Rockefeller Professor of philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.
Keith Sedgwick Donnellan was an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Michael Hammond is an American linguist and professor at the University of Arizona. He was head of the Department of Linguistics from 2001 to 2011. He is the author or editor of six books on a variety of topics from Syntactic Typology, The Phonology of English, to Computational linguistics. He is known for his research on meter and poetics. He has also published more than 40 articles and presented at over 60 conferences on these topics. He serves on the editorial board of several major journals.
Thomas R. Baldwin is a British philosopher and has been a professor of philosophy at the University of York since 1995. He has written generally on 20th century Analytic and Continental philosophy, as well as bioethics, the philosophy of language and of mind, particularly with regard to G. E. Moore, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Bertrand Russell.
Keith Allan, FAHA is an Australian linguist and Emeritus Professor at Monash University.
Barry Stroud was a Canadian philosopher and professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Known especially for his work on philosophical skepticism, he wrote about David Hume, Ludwig Wittgenstein, the metaphysics of color, and many other topics.
Cliff Goddard is a professor of linguistics at Griffith University, Queensland, Australia. He is, with Anna Wierzbicka, a leading proponent of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage approach to linguistic analysis. Goddard's research has explored cognitive and cultural aspects of everyday language and language use, and he is considered a leading scholar in the fields of semantics, and cross-cultural pragmatics. His work spans English,, indigenous Australian languages, and South East Asian languages.
Formal semantics is a framework which offers a theoretical account of how sentences' meanings are derived from the meanings of their parts. Formal semantics is practiced in linguistics, mathematical logic and philosophy, drawing on earlier work in philosophy of language, formal language theory, and logic.
The First Plague Pandemic was the first Old World pandemic of plague, the contagious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. Also called the Early Medieval Pandemic, it began with the Plague of Justinian in 541 and continued until 750 or 767; at least fifteen or eighteen major waves of plague following the Justinianic plague have been identified from historical records. The pandemic affected the Mediterranean Basin most severely and most frequently, but also infected the Near East and Northern Europe. The Roman emperor Justinian I's name is sometimes applied to the whole series of plague epidemics in late Antiquity, as well as to the Plague of Justinian which struck the Eastern Roman Empire in the early 540s.
Stefano Zamagni is an Italian economist. Born in Rimini on 4 January 1943, Zamagni is Professor of Economics at the University of Bologna. Zamagni is also a fellow of the Human Development and Capability Association and President of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences.
Mary Dalrymple, FBA is a professor of syntax at Oxford University. At Oxford, she is a fellow of Linacre College. Prior to that she was a lecturer in linguistics at King's College London, a senior member of the research staff at the Palo Alto Research Center in the Natural Language Theory and Technology group and a computer scientist at SRI International. She received her PhD in linguistics from Stanford University in 1990. Her master's degree and bachelor's degree are from the University of Texas, Austin and Cornell College, respectively. She has also been associated with CSLI as a researcher.
Judith Tonhauser is a Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Stuttgart. From 2006 to 2020, she worked in the Linguistics department at The Ohio State University. She is known for her work in theoretical semantics and pragmatics, specifically on cross-linguistic semantic/pragmatic variation and on the Paraguayan Guarani language, a Tupí Guaraní language spoken in Paraguay and surrounding countries.
Lisa Christine Matthewson is Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics at University of British Columbia with specialties in pragmatics and semantics. She has also done significant work with semantic fieldwork and in the preservation and oral history of First Nations languages, especially St'át'imcets and Gitksan. Matthewson's appointment at UBC was notable because she was the first female full professor in the department's history.
Basic Rights: Subsistence, Affluence, and U.S. Foreign Policy is a book by Henry Shue in which he examines the issue of human rights and its relation to U.S. foreign policy.
Raffaella Zanuttini is an Italian linguist whose research focuses primarily on syntax and linguistic variation. She is a Professor of Linguistics at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. She is the author and coauthor of six books and has published numerous articles on micro-syntactic variation, clause types, and sentential negation. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania in 1991 under Anthony Kroch and Richard S. Kayne, and her dissertation is entitled Syntactic Properties of Sentential Negation. A Comparative Study of Romance Languages. Since completing her Ph.D, she has held academic appointments at Johns Hopkins University, Georgetown University, and Yale University.
Laurence (Laurie) Bauer is a British linguist and Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington. He is known for his expertise on morphology and word formation. Bauer is an Editor of the journal Word Structure. In 2017 he was awarded the Royal Society of New Zealand's Humanities medal.
The Oxford Reference Guide to English Morphology is a 2013 book by Laurie Bauer, Rochelle Lieber and Ingo Plag in which the authors provide "a comprehensive reference volume covering the whole of contemporary English morphology". In 2015 the authors were the recipients of the Linguistic Society of America's Leonard Bloomfield Book Award for wrting the book.
Mark Schroeder is an American philosopher whose scholarship focuses on metaethics, particularly expressivism and other forms of noncognitivism. He is a professor of philosophy at the University of Southern California.
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