Stephen Schiffer Silver Professor; Professor of Philosophy Department of Philosophy 5 Washington Place New York, NY 10003  Phone: (212) 998-7381 Fax: (212) 995-4179 Email: D.Phil. 1970 (philosophy), Oxford B.A. 1962 (philosophy), Pennsylvania

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Stephen Schiffer (D.Phil., Oxford), Silver Professor of Philosophy, works primarily in philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and metaphysics. He is the author of numerous articles and of three books: Meaning (Oxford University Press, 1972), Remnants of Meaning (MIT Press, 1987), and The Things We Mean (Oxford University Press, fall 2003). He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

A published paper with a bizarre history and some forthcoming papers

• Communication, N. J. Smelser and P. B. Baltes (eds.), The International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (Elsevier Sciences 2001).
• Vague Properties, forthcoming in R. Dietz and S. Moruzzi (eds.), Cuts and Clouds: Essays on the Nature and Logic of Vagueness (OUP)
• Quandary and Intuitionism: Crispin Wright on Vagueness, forthcoming in A. Miller (ed.), Essays for Crispin Wright: Logic, Language and Mathematics (OUP)
• The Two-Stage Theory of Meaning, forthcoming in J. Boros (ed.), Paul Horwich’s Minimalist Theory of Meaning and Truth (Brambauer)
• Propositions, What Are They Good For?, forthcoming in R. Schantz (ed.), Prospects for Meaning (de Gruyter)
• Evidence = Knowledge: Williamson’s Solution to Skepticism, forthcoming in P. Greenough and D. Pritchard (eds.), Williamson on Knowledge (OUP)