Jason Stanley

Jason Stanley ( born October 12, 1969) is an American philosopher who currently teaches at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. His research interests include epistemology, issues of linguistics, cognitive science, and philosophy of language.

Jason Stanley studied temporarily in Lünen and Tübingen ( Germany) and at the State University of New York, Peter Ludlow and Richard Larson. His PhD degree he earned in 1995 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under Robert Stalnaker. He then was short -time lecturer at University College, Oxford, then at Cornell University. This he left in 2000 in favor of an assistant professor at the University of Michigan, a position he held until 2004, and then take up a professorship at Rutgers University.

Stanley co-editor of the journals Philosopher's Imprint and Nous and the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is for the field of philosophy of language, reviewer for numerous professional journals and for Oxford University Press.

Stanley takes a pragmatic view of epistemology, where knowledge and action have more than emulate each other in the traditional epistemology. He also has a lot of articles in the truth- value-based philosophy of language.

Publications

  • Know-how, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
  • Language in Context: Selected Essays, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
  • . Knowledge and Practical Interests, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005 ( Draft ( PDF, 112 kB) a summary and defense against objections, inter alia, of Harman, Publ in Prep in PPR. )
  • Philosophy of Language in the Twentieth Century, Publ in Prep. in Routledge Guide to Twentieth Century Philosophy (draft, PDF, 389 kB)
  • Semantics in Context Contextualism in Philosophy, in: Preyer / Peter (ed.): Knowledge, Meaning, and Truth, OUP 2005, 221-54. ( Draft)
  • Semantics, Pragmatics, and the Role of Semantic Content ( with Jeffrey C. King ), in: Zoltan Szabo (ed.): Semantics vs.. Pragmatics, OUP 2005, 111-64. ( Draft)
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