Christopher Gauker
Ph.D., 1984, University of Pittsburgh

HOMEPAGE

christopher.gauker@uc.edu

Department of Philosophy
University of Cincinnati
PO Box 210374
Cincinnati, OH 45221-0374

Telephone: 513-556-6333

Areas of Specialization

Philosophy of language, philosophy of mind/psychology, philosophical logic

Books

Conditionals in Context, MIT Press, 2005.

Words without Meaning, MIT Press, 2003.

Thinking Out Loud: An Essay on the Relation between Thought and Language,
Princeton University Press, 1994.

Selected Recent Articles

"A Critique of the Similarity Space Theory of Concepts," forthcoming in Mind and Language.

"Zero Tolerance for Pragmatics," forthcoming in Synthese.

“On the Alleged Priority of Thought over Language,” forthcoming in Savas L. Tsohatzidis, ed., John Searle's Philosophy of Language: Force, Meaning, and Thought, Cambridge University Press.

"Against Stepping Back: A Critique of Contextualist Approaches to the Semantic Paradoxes,"The Journal of Philosophical Logic 35 (2006): 393-422.

“Scientific Realism as an Issue in Semantics,” in Patrick Greenough and Michael Lynch, eds., Truth and Realism: New Debates, Oxford University Press, 2006, pp. 125-136.

"Semantics for Deflationists", in JC Beall and Bradley Armour-Garb, eds., Deflationism and Paradox, Oxford University Press, 2005, pp. 148-176.

“The Belief-Desire Law,” Facta Philosophica 7 (2005): 121-144.

“On the Evidence for Prelinguistic Concepts,” Theoria (Spain) 54 (2005): 287-297.