About Me
My research centers around issues of meaning, language, metaphysics, and logic—especially the relationship between meaning and actual language use. In particular, I intend to develop and expand on the pragmatic ideas of F. C. S. Schiller (1864-1937, sometimes known as "the forgotten pragmatist"), principally as they relate to meaning and logic, within a general cognitive semantic framework.
My influences include: J.S. Mill, Hume, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, C.S. Peirce, F.C.S. Schiller, William James, Dewey, A.J. Ayer, W.V.O. Quine, Mario Bunge, Fred Sommers, George Englebretsen, Paul Thagard, Mark Johnson, Daniel Everett, Paul Horwich, Cornel West, François Recanati, and J. Davidson Frame.
My research centers around issues of meaning, language, metaphysics, and logic—especially the relationship between meaning and actual language use. In particular, I intend to develop and expand on the pragmatic ideas of F. C. S. Schiller (1864-1937, sometimes known as "the forgotten pragmatist"), principally as they relate to meaning and logic, within a general cognitive semantic framework.
My influences include: J.S. Mill, Hume, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, C.S. Peirce, F.C.S. Schiller, William James, Dewey, A.J. Ayer, W.V.O. Quine, Mario Bunge, Fred Sommers, George Englebretsen, Paul Thagard, Mark Johnson, Daniel Everett, Paul Horwich, Cornel West, François Recanati, and J. Davidson Frame.