Philosophy of Language

Philosophy of language is increasingly being pursued in ways that are informed by developments in linguistics, and Maryland is at the forefront of this movement. Two faculty members (Pietroski [1], Williams [2]) have joint appointments with Maryland's highly ranked department of Linguistics [3].

Faculty in this area

John Horty [4] (Semantics, Philosophy of Language)
Paul Pietroski [1] (Philosophy of Language, Semantics, Linguistics)
Georges Rey [5] (Philosophy of Linguistics)
Alexander Williams [2] (Semantics, Philosophy of Language, Syntactic Theory)

Recent seminars in this area

Seminar in the Problems of Philosophy [6] (Alexander Williams, Spring 2013)

Implicit Content (Alexander Williams, 2012)
Representing Numbers (Paul Pietroski, 2011)
Meanings and Concepts (Paul Pietroski, 2009)
The Semantics of Attitude Reports (Erin Eaker and Valentine Hacquard, 2008)
Naming, Necessity, and Natural Kinds (Erin Eaker, 2008)
The Semantics/Pragmatics Distinction (Paul Pietroski, 2006)
Between Meanings and Truth Conditions (Paul Pietroski, 2005)

Links:
[1] http://www.philosophy.umd.edu/people/pietroski
[2] http://www.philosophy.umd.edu/people/williams
[3] http://ling.umd.edu
[4] http://www.philosophy.umd.edu/people/horty
[5] http://www.philosophy.umd.edu/people/rey
[6] http://www.philosophy.umd.edu/courses/spring2013/phil808w