Jason Stanley

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

Life

Jason Stanley studied in Tübingen (Germany) and at the State University of New York . In 1995 he received his Doctor of Philosophy ( Ph.D. ) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under Robert Stalnaker . He was then a short time lecturer at University College in Oxford , then assistant professor at Cornell University . He left this in 2000 in favor of a position as a professor at the University of Michigan , which he held until 2004, before taking up a professorship at Rutgers University. He has been a professor at Yale University since March 2013.

Stanley is co-editor of Philosopher's Imprint and Nous magazines . And co-editor of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy in the field of philosophy of language. Reviewer for numerous journals and for Oxford University Press .

Stanley takes a pragmatic view in epistemology, where knowledge and action have more to do with each other than in traditional epistemology. He has also published numerous essays in the field of truth-oriented language philosophy.

In August 2014 he commented on the anti-Semitic statements in Berlin during the 2014 Gaza conflict in the FAZ .

Works

  • How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them. Random House, New York 2018, ISBN 978-0-525-51183-0 .
  • Know-how. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2011, ISBN 978-0-19-969536-2 .
  • Language in Context: Selected Essays. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-922592-7 .
  • Knowledge and Practical Interests. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2005, ISBN 0-19-928803-8 . ( Draft (PDF; 112 kB) of a summary and defense against objections by Harman, among others, published in preparation in PPR)
  • Philosophy of Language in the Twentieth Century. Published in prep. in Routledge Guide to Twentieth Century Philosophy ( Draft ; PDF; 389 kB)
  • Fallibilism and Concessive Knowledge Attributions. In: Analysis. 65.2, 2005, pp. 126-131 ( Draft ; PDF; 50 kB)
  • Semantics in Context. Contextualism in Philosophy. In: Gerhard Preyer, Georg Peter (Ed.): Knowledge, Meaning, and Truth. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2005, pp. 221-254. ( Draft )
  • On the Linguistic Basis for Contextualism. In: Philosophical Studies. 119, 2004, pp. 119-146. ( Draft ; PDF; 56 kB)
  • with Jeffrey C. King : Semantics, Pragmatics, and the Role of Semantic Content. In: Zoltan Szabo (Ed.): Semantics vs. Pragmatics. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2005, pp. 111-164. ( Draft )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jason Stanley: To the Berlin demonstrators. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, August 5, 2014, accessed on September 5, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Stanley, Jason
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Syracuse , New York