Department of Philosophy: People: Core Faculty: Paul Pietroski

Paul Pietroski (PhD, MIT) is Professor of Philosophy and Linguistics. His main research interests lie at the intersection of these fields. For the last several years, he has been thinking about how grammatical structure is related to linguistic meaning and logical form, and how meaning is related to truth. He has also been defending, in collaboration with colleagues, nativist accounts of language acquisition.

E-mail: pietro@umd.edu

Personal Home Page: http://www.wam.umd.edu/~pietro/

Representative Publications

Events and Semantic Architecture. Oxford University Press (2005, pbk 2006).

Causing Actions. Oxford University Press (2000, pbk 2002).

'Meaning Before Truth,' in Contextualism in Philosophy (Preyer and Peters, eds), Oxford University Press, 2005.

'Quantification and Second Order Monadicity,' Philosophical Perspectives 17: 259-98 (2003).

'Nature, Nurture, and Universal Grammar,' (with Stephen Crain). Linguistics and Philosophy 24:139-86 (2001).

'The Undeflated Domain of Semantics,' Sats: The Nordic Journal of Philosophy 1:161-76 (2000). Reprinted, in part, in Reading Philosophy of Language (Hornsby and Longworth, eds.), Blackwell, 2005.

'Actions, Adjuncts, and Agency,' Mind 107: 73-111 (1998).

'Fregean Innocence,' Mind and Language 11: 331-362 (1996).

'Prima Facie Obligations, Ceteris Paribus Laws in Moral Theory,' Ethics, 103: 489-515 (1993).

'Intentionality and Teleological Error,' Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 73: 267-282 (1992).