Mind and Language
Northwestern has a large and lively community of scholars working in the philosophy of mind and language.
If you have any questions about the program, do not hesitate to contact one of the faculty members listed below. Additional resources can be found on our LEMMings site.
Core Faculty
Fabrizio Cariani
(Philosophy): formal semantics (esp. modality), meta-semantics, propositional attitudes
(Philosophy): logic, philosophy of logic, and Quine-Carnap-Davidson
(Philosophy): attitude individuation, first-person authority, the semantics of attitude and speech reports, meaning, reference
(Philosophy): consciousness, mental causation
(Philosophy): The Philosophy of Generative Linguistics, Microlanguages and the Dynamic Lexicon, Tensism and Presentism in the Metaphysics 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
(Philosophy): semantic contextualism, semantic externalism, reference, and meaning
Additional Faculty
Faculty with a very strong secondary interest in mind and language:
(Linguistics): Semantics, Pragmatics, syntax, syntactic variation and change, focus and focus sensitivity
(Psychology): Learning and Thinking; Analogy, Similarity and Metaphor; Concepts and Conceptual Structure; Language and Cognition; Language Acquisition
(Psychology): Language Cognition; Memory Representations Underlying Routine Language Use; Pragmatics; Common Ground and Memory Processes in Language Production
(Linguistics): Semantics, Pragmatics, and Computational Linguistics; Modality; Tense; Conditionals; Game Theory Approaches to Language
(Philosophy): pragmatic theory, reference, meaning, truth
(Psychology): Categorization And Reasoning; Decision-Making; Cultural and Biological Thought
(Psychology, Education, and Computer Science): Knowledge Representation, Language Cognition, Metaphor, Emotion
(Psychology, Education): Language Comprehension of Written Texts; Memory
(Psychology): Concepts of Individual Entities; Mathematical Concepts (e.g., Natural Numbers or Groups); and Types of Reasoning Related to these Concepts (Typically Causal or Mathematical Reasoning, Counterfactuals)
(Linguistics): Pragmatic Theory, Information Structure, Intonational Meaning, and Reference/Anaphora
Activities and Resources
In addition to graduate seminars, there are a number of other regular activities and resources.
Department Bulletin
We are pleased to welcome Professor Robert Audi as Distinguished Brady Professor for the 2009-2010 academic year.
Contact
Department of Philosophy
Kresge 2-335
Tel: 847-491-3656
Fax: 847-491-2547
1880 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60208
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