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Peter Ludlow

John Evans Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy
Office: Crowe 3-159

E-mail: peterjludlow@gmail.com
Phone: 847-467-5594

Peter Ludlow (PhD Columbia U, 1985) taught at the state University of New York at Stony Brook, the University of Michigan, and the University of Toronto before joining Northwestern University. He has been working on a number of topics lately. Following is a rough summary of some of his areas of research.

• The Philosophy of Generative Linguistics
• Language and Epistemology (contextualism, etc.)
• Microlanguages and the Dynamic Lexicon
• Natural Logic, Directional Entailingness, and the Logical Form of Determiners
• Tensism and Presentism in the Philosophy of Time
• The Syntax and Semantics of Intensional Environments]]
• The Semantics of Quantified Noun Phrases
• The Nature of Fiction and Fanfiction
• Expressivist Foundations for Natural Language Semantics

For more detailed information, please refer to his personal web page.

CURRENT CV

 

Work

Books

• Nagasawa, Yujin, Daniel Stoljar, and Peter Ludlow (eds .). There's Something About Mary: Essays on Frank Jackson's Knowledge Argument. MIT Press, 2004.
• Semantics, Tense and Time: An Essay in the Metaphysics of Natural Language. MIT Press, 1999.
• Ludlow, Peter, and Norah Martin (eds.). Externalism and Self-Knowledge. CSLI Publications, Stanford University (Dist. by Cambridge University Press), 1998.
• (Ed.). Readings in the Philosophy of Language. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1997.
• Beakley, Brian, and Peter Ludlow (eds.). The Philosophy of Mind: Classical Problems/Contemporary Issues. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1992. 2nd edition, 2006.
• Ludlow, Peter. The Syntax and Semantics of Referential Attitude Reports . Bloomington: Indiana University Linguistics Club, 1986.
  
  In preparation:
• The Philosophy of Generative Linguistics. Under contract with Oxford University Press.
• Natural Logic and the Holy Grail. In preparation.
• Tensism and Presentism. In preparation.

Selection of Recent Articles

• “Cheap Contextualism,” Nous . Philosophical Issues: Annual Supplement , Sosa and Villanueva (eds.), forthcoming.
• "Tense," in E. Lepore and B. Smith (eds.), Handbook in the Philosophy of Language . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
• With Stephen Neale. "Descriptions," in M. Devitt and M. Hanley (eds.). Blackwell's Guide to the Philosophy of Language . Oxford: Blackwell's, 2006.
• “From Sherlock and Buffy to Klingon and Norrathian Platinum Pieces: Pretense, Contextualism, and the Myth of Fiction.” Nous . Philosophical Issues: Annual Supplement , Sosa and Villanueva (eds.), 2006.
• "Understanding Temporal Indexicals," (with reply by John Perry) in M. O'Rourke and C. Washington, (eds.). Situating Semantics: Essays on the Philosophy of John Perry . Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007.
• "Contextualism and the New Linguistic Turn In Epistemology" in G. Preyer and G. Peter (eds.) Contextualism in Philosophy . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
• "What was I Thinking? Social Externalism, Self-Knowledge, and Shifting Memory Targets," in R. Schantz (ed.), The Externalist Challenge: New Studies on Cognition and Intentionality, Berlin: de Gruyter, 2004.
• With Gabriel Segal. "On a Unitary Semantical Analysis for Definite and Indefinite Descriptions." In A. Bezuidenhout and M. Reimer (eds.) Descriptions and Beyond: An Interdisciplinary Collection of Essays on Definite and Indefinite Descriptions . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
• "Referential Semantics for I-Languages?" (with reply by Noam Chomsky), in N. Hornstein and L. Antony (eds.), Chomsky and His Critics , Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2003, 140-161.
• "Externalism, Logical Form, and Linguistic Intentions," in A. Barber (ed.), The Epistemology of Language . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002, 132-168.
• "LF and Natural Logic." In G. Preyer (ed.) Logical Form, Language and Ontology: On Contemporary Developments in the Philosophy of Language and Linguistics , Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

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