 | Stephen Schiffer
Silver Professor of Philosophy; Chair
Department of Philosophy
5 Washington Place
New York, NY 10003
Phone:
(212) 998-7381
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(212) 995-4179
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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)
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