Researchers

Richard Breheny

Richard Breheny is a lecturer in linguistics at the University College London.

Homepage: http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/richardb/

John Hawthorne is Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at Magdalen College, Oxford. His research interests are in the fields of Metaphysics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind and Early Modern Philosophy. He received his doctoral degree at Syracuse University in 1991, and has previously held positions at University of New South Wales, Australian National University, Arizona State University, Syracuse University and Rutgers University.

Homepage: http://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/members/john_hawthorne

Edmund Henden

Carsten Hansen

Edmund Henden received his D.Phil. in philosophy from the University of Oxford in 2002, and then from 2002 to 2007 he was a lecturer and postdoctorial research fellow at the University of Oslo. He currently holds an appointment as Research Fellow at CSMN. Henden works mainly on topics in the philosophy of mind and action, in particular issues relating to practical rationality. He also has research interests in ethics and metaphysics. His work has appeared in Philosophical Psychology, Erkenntnis, Ratio, European Journal of Philosophy, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice and Philosophical Explorations.

Homepage
edmund.henden@ifikk.uio.no

Dagfinn Føllesdal

Dagfinn Føllesdal is Clarence Irving Lewis Professor of Philosphy at Stanford University, professor emeritus at the University of Oslo and an affiliated researcher at CSMN. He received his doctoral degree in philosophy in 1961 from Harvard, where he studied under Wiliam Van Orman Quine. He has since held positions at Stanford, Harvard and Oslo, as well as guest positions at Berkeley and Collège de France. Føllesdal has written and lectured extensively on topics such as philosophy of language, hermeneutics and phenomenology.

Francois Recanati

A research fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris since 1979, François Recanati has taught in several major universities around the world, including Berkeley, Harvard and St Andrews. His numerous publications in the philosophy of language and mind include Meaning and Force (CUP 1987), Direct Reference : From Language to Thought (Blackwell 1993), Oratio Obliqua, Oratio Recta (MIT Press/Bradford Books 2000), Literal Meaning (CUP 2004), and Perspectival Thought (Oxford University Press, 2007. He is a co-founder and past President of the European Society for Analytic Philosophy.

Homepage: http://www.institutnicod.org/notices.php?user=Recanati

Dan Sperber

Dan Sperber is a French social and cognitive scientist. He is the author of Rethinking Symbolism (Cambridge UP 1975), On Anthropological Knowledge (Cambridge UP 1985), Explaining Culture (Blackwell 1996). In these three books, he has developed a naturalistic approach to culture under the name of "epidemiology of representations". Dan Sperber is also the co-author, with Deirdre Wilson (Department of Linguistics, University College, London) of Relevance: Communication and Cognition (Blackwell 1986 - Second Revised Edition, 1995). Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson have developed a cognitive approach to communication known as "Relevance Theory". Both the epidemiology of representations and relevance theory have been influential and also controversial.

Dan Sperber holds a research professorship at the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris, and has held visiting positions at Cambridge University, the British Academy, the London School of Economics, the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, Princeton University, the University of Michigan, the University of Bologna, and the University of Hong-Kong.

Homepage: http://www.dan.sperber.com/

Jason Stanley

Jason Stanley is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. His research is principally in philosophy of language and epistemology, and he also works on history of analytic philosophy, metaphysics and philosophical logic. Stanley received his doctoral degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His publications include Knowledge and Practical Interests (Oxford University Press, 2005) and Language in Context: Selected Essays (Oxford University Press, 2007)

Homepage: http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~jasoncs/

Helen Steward

Helen joined the School of Philosophy at the University of Leeds in April 2007, having previously been Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Balliol College, Oxford. She has also spent time at Berkeley on a Harkness Fellowship and at the Australian National University as a Visiting Fellow. Her research interests lie mainly in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of action, and in the metaphysical and ontological issues which bear on these areas (e.g. causation, modality, the event/state distinction). She is working at present on a book entitled ‘A Metaphysics for Freedom’, which argues for a distinctive version of incompatibilism, based on the idea that there is a conflict not only between determinism and free human action, but also between determinism and the activities of a wide variety of animals.

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