Mitchell Green is a professor of philosophy at the University of Connecticut, [1] where he sits on the steering committee of the Cognitive Science program [2] and the executive committee of the Graduate School. He is editor-in-chief of the journal Philosophia.
His research focuses on philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, aesthetics, and pragmatics. [3] He made influential contributions to speech act theory, the evolutionary biology of communication, to the study of empathy, self-knowledge, [4] self-expression and attitude ascription, and to the epistemology of fiction. His account of communication as self-expression, [5] develops the idea that communication is best understood as a tool for signalling and showing our internal mental states. [6] Green's influential research has been celebrated by a special issue of the international journal Grazer Philosophische Studien , titled Sources of Meaning. Themes from Mitchell S. Green, [7] [8] edited by J. Michel, and by a special issue of the journal Organon Filozofia (vol. 28, 2021), titled The Origins of Meaning and the Nature of Speech Acts, edited by M. Witek.
Green previously held a professor position at the University of Virginia (from 1993 to 2013), [9] and currently runs an MOOC at Coursera. [10] [11] He has held fellowships from the National Science Foundation, [12] the National Humanities Center, [13] the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, [14] and the American Council of Learned Societies. [15] He has held visiting research positions at Singapore Management University (2008), the University of Muenster (2015), and was a Mercator Fellow at the Ruhr University Bochum, in the Emmy Noether Research Group (2020–21).
