Kenneth Allen Taylor

Kenneth Allen Taylor (born 1954 ) is an American philosopher and a professor at Stanford University.

Taylor studied until 1977 at the University of Notre Dame and received his PhD in 1984 from the University of Chicago in Leonard Linsky. He then worked at Rutgers University, the University of Maryland at College Park, Wesleyan University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Middlebury College.

His research interests are in the areas of philosophy of language and philosophy of mind. He focuses among other things on the issues of semantics, reference, naturalism, and relativism.

Texts

  • Truth and Meaning. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Language - Blackwell Publishing, 1998.
  • Reference and the Rational Mind - CSLI Publications, 2003.
  • Referring to the World - Oxford University Press 2010.
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