Jason Stanley
Department of Philosophy
1 Seminary Place
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901-1107
email: firstname followed by "cs" at rci.rutgers.edu
Citizenship: United States
Age: 42
Education
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Ph.D. (1995)
Chair: Robert Stalnaker
State University of New York at
Stony Brook, B.A. (1990)
Philosophy & Linguistics, summa cum laude
Academic Positions
Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers
University (2006- )
Member, Rutgers University Center for Cognitive Science; Affiliate
Member, Dept. of Linguistics
Professorial
Fellow, St. Andrews University Scotland (2007-2012)
Researcher,
Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature, University of Oslo (2007 - )
Associate Professor, Rutgers
University (2004-6)
Associate Professor, University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2000-2004)
Assistant Professor, Cornell
University (1995-2000)
Lecturer, University College
Oxford (January 1995-August 1995)
Honors & Prizes
H. Lee Dennison Valedictorian,
SUNY at Stony Brook, May 1990
Fulbright Fellowship (to Germany), 1990,
award declined
"Knowing How" selected by
Philosopher's Annual as one of the ten best articles of 2001
2007 American
Philosophical Association Book Prize (formerly the Matchette Prize)
for Knowledge and Practical
Interests.
-Awarded for the best book published in Philosophy
in 2005 or 2006 by a scholar 40 and under.
Visiting
Fellowships and Professorships, etc.
Lecturer, Linguistics Society of
America Summer Institute (June 23-August 7, 1997)
Visiting Fellow, New College,
Oxford (2003)
Visiting Fellow, RSSS, Australian National
University (2003)
Visiting Professor, University of
Barcelona (2006)
Visiting Fellow, Arché
Research Center, St. Andrews University (2006)
Royal Scots Philosophical Club
Centenary Fellow (2007)
Visiting Professor, Seoul
National University (2007)
Co-Director, Central European University Summer
School on Conditionals, Budapest, Hungary (2009)
Co-Director, Central European University Summer
School on Context, Meaning, and Intention, Budapest, Hungary (2010)
Publications
Books
Know How (Oxford, Oxford University Press: 2011)
Knowledge and Practical Interests
(Oxford, Oxford University Press: 2005; paperback 2007)
-Selections reprinted in Epistemology: An Anthology,
edited by E. Sosa, J. Kim, J. Fantl, and M. McGrath (Blackwell, 2008)
-Reviews published in Mind, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews,
Critica, Croation Journal of Philosophy, Philosophical Review
-Book symposium
in Philosophy and Phenomenological
Research, Critical
Notice in Nous.
Collections of Previously Published Essays
Language in Context: Selected
Essays (Oxford, Oxford University Press: 2007)
(Published in hardcover and paperback)
-Reviews
published in Notre Dame
Philosophical Reviews, Intercultural Pragmatics, Australian Journal of Linguistics
Papers
28. "Empirical Tests of Interest-Relative Invariantism", forthcoming in Episteme (with Chandra Sripada)
27. "Knowing (How)", Nous 45.2, 2011: 207-238.
26. "Singular Thoughts and Singular Propositions", Philosophical Studies 154.2, 2011: 205-222 (with Joshua
Armstrong)
25.“’Assertion’
and Intentionality”, Philosophical
Studies 151.1, 2010: 87-113.
24. "On 'Average'", Mind 118, 2009: 583-646 (with Christopher
Kennedy)
23. "Knowledge and Action", The
Journal of Philosophy 105.10, 2008: 571-590. (with John
Hawthorne)
22. "Knowledge and Certainty", Philosophical
Issues 18, 2008: 33-55.
21. "Philosophy of Language in the Twentieth Century", in Dermot Moran
(ed.), The Routledge
Companion to Twentieth Century Philosophy (London: Routledge
Press, 2008): 382-437.
-selection reprinted in The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Language, edited by Delia Graff Fara and Gillian Russell (London: Routledge Press, 2011)
20. "Hornsby on the Phenomenology of Speech", Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society,
Supplementary Volume (2005): 131-45.
19. "Semantics in Context", Contextualism,
G. Peters and G. Preyer, ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005):
221-53.
18. "Fallibilism and Concessive Knowledge Attributions", Analysis 65.2, 2005: 126-31.
-translated and reprinted as "Falibilismo e Atribuições de Conhecimento Concessivo"
, Kínesis, Vol. III, n° 05, Julho-2011: 341-348
17. "Semantics, Pragmatics, and the Role of Semantic Content", in Semantics vs. Pragmatics,
Z. Szabo, ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005) (with Jeffrey C. King)
16. "On the Linguistic Basis for Contextualism", Philosophical Studies, 119, 2004: 119-146.
15. "Context, Interest-Relativity, and the Sorites", in Analysis 63, 2003: 269-280.
14. "Modality and What is Said", in Philosophical
Perspectives 16, J.
Tomberlin, ed. (Blackwell Press, 2002): 321-344.
13. "Nominal Restriction", in Logical
Form and Language, G. Peters and G. Preyer, ed. (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2002): 365-388.
12. "Making it Articulated", Mind
and Language 17 1 & 2,
2002: 149-168.
11. "Hermeneutic Fictionalism", in Midwest
Studies in Philosophy 25:
Figurative Language, H. Wettstein and P. French, ed. (Blackwell Press,
2001): 36-71.
10. "Knowing How", Journal of
Philosophy 98, 2001:
411-444 (with Timothy
Williamson)
-reprinted in The Philosopher's Annual XXIV. P. Grim, P. Ludlow, and G. Mar
(ed.), Stanford, CSLI: 237-272.
-reprinted (in Chinese translation) in Thought & Culture 10: 2-37
9. "Context and Logical Form", Lingustics
and Philosophy 23.4,
2000: 391-434.
- reprinted in Pragmatics: Critical Concepts II, edited by Asa Kasher (Routledge, 2010)
-to be reprinted in a CSLI volume edited by Carlo Penco and Filippo Domaneschi
8. "On Quantifier Domain Restriction", Mind and Language 15 2 & 3, 2000: 219-261. (with Zoltan Gendler Szabo)
7. "Understanding, Context-Relativity, and the Description Theory", Analysis 59, 1999: 14-18.
6. "Persons and their Properties", The
Philosophical Quarterly 48,
1998: 159-175.
5. "Names and Rigid Designation", A Companion to the Philosophy of
Language, Hale and Wright, ed. (Oxford, Blackwell Press, 1997):
555-585.
4. "Rigidity and Content", in Language, Thought, and Logic: Essays in
Honor of Michael Dummett, R. Heck, ed. (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1997): 131-56.
3. "Truth and Metatheory in Frege", Pacific
Philosophical Quarterly 77,
1996: 45-70.
-reprinted in Gottlob Frege: Critical
Assessments of Leading Philosophers, M. Beaney and E. Reck
(eds.) Routledge, 2005: 109-35.
2. "Quantifiers and Context-Dependence", Analysis 55, 1995: 291-5 (with Timothy
Williamson)
1. "Frege and Second-Order Logic", Journal
of Philosophy, 90,
1993: 416-424 (with Richard Heck)
Replies, Reviews,
Conference Proceedings, Introductions to books, Non-Philosophy Press, etc.
"The Ways of Silencing", The New York Times, June 25, 2011 (excerpted in print June 26, 2011)
"Media and Mistrust", The New York Times, July 18, 2011
"Speaking of Practical Knowledge", Semantics and Linguistic Theory 20 (Ithaca: CLC Publications, 2011) (with Carlotta Pavese)
"Intellectualism and the Language of Thought: Reply to Roth and
Cummins", forthcoming in Bartels and Newen (ed.), Knowledge and Representation
(Palo Alto: CSLI Press)
"The Crisis of Philosophy", Inside Higher Education (April, 2010).
"What an 'average' semantics needs", Semantics and Linguistic Theory
18 (Ithaca: CLC Publications,
2008) (with Christopher
Kennedy)
"Replies to Gilbert Harman, Ram Neta, and Stephen Schiffer", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
75.1, 2007: 196-210.
"Precis of Knowledge and Practical Interests", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
75.1, 2007: 168-172.
"Introduction", in Language
and Context: Selected Papers (Oxford: Oxford University Press:
2007): 1-29.
"Postscript", in Language
and Context: Selected Papers (Oxford: Oxford University Press:
2007): 248-260.
Review of Robyn Carston, Thoughts
and Utterances, Mind and
Language
Review of Jeffrey King, Complex
Demonstratives, Philosophical
Review 111.4 (2002)
Review of Francois Recanati, Literal
Meaning, Notre Dame
Philosophical Reviews
"Reply to Bach and Neale", Mind and
Language 15 2 & 3,
2000: 295-298 (with Zoltan Gendler Szabo)
"Frege,
Gottlob", in Keil and Wilson
(ed.), MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences, (Cambridge,
MIT
Press, 1999): 327-8.
"Logical
Form, Origins of", in Keil and Wilson (1999): 488-9.
"Chomsky,
Noam", entry in Robert Audi (ed.), Cambridge Dictionary of
Philosophy,
second edition.
"Domain
of Quantification", entry in William Frawley (ed.), The
International Encylopedia
of Linguistics, second edition (Oxford,
Oxford University Press)
(with Zoltan Gendler Szabo).
"Frege,
Gottlob", entry in the Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (New York,
Macmillan).
Invited Lectures
at Departmental Colloquia
(Philosophy Departments unless otherwise indicated)
Previous
Wesleyan University (2011)
University of Texas at Austin (2011)
Universität Stuttgart (2010)
Rutgers University, Department of Linguistics (2010)
Brown University (2009)
Jowett Society, Oxford University (2009)
Princeton University (2008)
Northwestern University (2008)
University of California at Santa Barbara (2008)
University of Buenos Aires
(2008) (four lectures)
Queen’s
University (2008)
University
of Chicago (2007)
(Department of
Linguistics)
University
of Aberdeen (2007)
University
of Köln
(2007)
University
of Münster
(2007)
University
of Vermont (2007)
Harvard University (2007)
University
of Calgary (2007)
Institute of Philosophy,
University
of London (2006)
St. Andrews
University (2006)
(three lectures)
University
of Leeds (2006)
University
of Edinburgh
(2006)
Jowett
Society, Oxford
University (2006)
DILP
Colloquium, University
of Amsterdam
(2006)
University of Granada,
Spain
(2006)
University
of Maryland (2006)
University
of Toronto (2006)
University of California
at Santa Cruz (2006) (UC Santa Cruz
Language and Linguistics
Distinguished
Visitor, two talks)
Syracuse University (2006)
Ohio State,
two talks (2005) (Ohio
State Center
for Cognitive Science, and the
Departments
of Linguistics and Philosophy, co-sponsored)
University
of Waterloo (2005)
Brown University
(2005)
Centro
de Filosofia da Universidade de Lisboa, two talks (2005)
Logos
Colloquium, University of
Barcelona, Spain
(2005)
Wayne State
(2004)
Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (2003)
Rutgers University (2003)
Yale University
(2003)
Australian
National University
(2003) (Faculties)
RSSS,
Philosophy Seminar, ANU (2003)
Northwestern
University (2003)
(Departments of
Linguistics and Philosophy, cosponsored)
University of Glasgow,
Scotland
(2003)
Philosophical
Society, Oxford
University (2003)
University of Goteborg,
Sweden
(2003) (Departments of
Computer Science, Linguistics,
and
Philosophy, co-sponsored)
University of Stockholm,
Sweden
(2003) (two talks)
University of Reading,
England
(2003)
University of California,
Berkeley
(2003)
University
of Southern California
(2002)
Vassar College
(2002)
University of Texas
at Austin
(2001)
Texas
A&M (2001)
University of Barcelona,
Spain
(2001)
University of California,
Davis
(2001)
Tufts University
(2000)
University
of Michigan
(2000) (Department of
Linguistics)
Columbia University (1999)
Rutgers University (1998) (Department of
Linguistics)
University
of Michigan (1998)
University
of Edinburgh
(1997)
University
of St. Andrews
(1997)
University
of Rochester
(1997)
Syracuse University (1996)
Sheffield
University (1995)
Cornell University (1995)
Keynote Lectures
Semantic Content III, Logos, Universityt of Barcelona (2011)
Theoretical Pragmatics, Humboldt University, Berlin (2011)
University of Toronto, Scarborough Undergraduate Conference (2011)
Fourth Midwest Epistemology Workshop, Purdue University (2010)
Semantics and Linguistic Theory 20, University of British Columbia & Simon Fraser, co-hosts (2010)
Opening Public Lecture, Meaning, Understanding, and Knowledge, Riga,
Latvia (2009)
Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Savannah, Georgia (2009)
Context-Dependence, Perspective, and Relativitity in Thought and
Language, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris (2007)
International Conference on Linguistics and Epistemology, University of
Aberdeen, Scotland (2007)
Fourth Annual Miami Graduate Student Epistemology Conference (2007)
Third Annual St. Andrews Graduate Conference (2006)
University of Texas at Austin Graduate Student Conference (2006)
Rutgers- Princeton Graduate Conference (2006)
Society for Exact Philosophy, University of Toronto (2005)
Covert Variables in Logical Form, University of Milan, Italy (2004)
Lectures at
Conferences and Workshops
Author Meets Critics Session on Know How, Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association (2011)
Knowing How, University of St. Andrews (2011)
The Pragmatic Load in Knowledge, University of Geneva, Switzerland (2011)
Ordinary Language, Linguistics, and Philosophy, University of St. Andrews (2011)
Knowledge, Virtue, and Action - An
Aretaic Turn in Epistemology? Friedrich-Schiller Universität Jena (2010)
North Carolina Metaphysics Workshop (2010)
Truth and Relativism, Torino, Italy and Bologna, Italy (2010)
Oberlin Colloquium (2010)
Invited Symposium on Knowing How, APA Pacific Division (2010)
Reality Checks: History confronts Moral and Political Theory, Center
for Human Values, Princeton (2010)
Workshop on Knowing How, University of Geneva, Switzerland (2009) (two
lectures)
Meaning, Understanding, and Knowledge, Riga, Latvia (2009)
Conference in Honor of the 30th Anniversary of the publication of
Robert Stalnaker's "Assertion", MIT (2008)
Invited Speaker, Issues in Philosophy of Language, Korean Philosophical
Association Invited Sessions, XXII World Congress of Philosophy, Seoul,
South Korea (2008)
Workshop on Assertion, St. Andrews University (2008)
Semantics and Linguistic Theory 18, University of Massachusetts,
Amherst (2008) (refereed)
Special Session of the Korean Society for Analytic Philosohy, Ehwa
Women's University, Seoul (2007)
Workshop on Adjectives, St. Andrews University, Scotland (2007)
Symposium on Context-Sensitivity, American Philosophical Association
Eastern Division (2006)
Workshop on Basic Knowledge, St. Andrews University, Scotland (2006)
Fourth Annual Barcelona Workshop in Cognitive Science (2006)
First Lisbon Conference in Semantics, Lisbon, Portugal (2006)
Workshop on Implicit Definitions and A Priori Knowledge (part of GAP.
6), Berlin, Germany (2006)
Author meets Critics Session on Knowledge and Practical Interests,
Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Assocation (2006)
Symposium
Speaker, Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind
Association, Manchester,
England
(2005).
Speaker,
Conference on the Semantics-Pragmatics Distinction, Context '05, Paris, France
(2005)
Speaker,
Syntax and Semantics with Attitude, University of Southern
California
(2005)
Speaker,
Pacific Division APA, Symposium on Epistemic Contextualism and
Subject-Sensitive Invariantism (2005)
Speaker,
Conference on Contextualism, University
of Oslo, Norway
(2005)
Speaker,
Cognitive Systems as Representational Systems, Torun, Poland
(2004)
Speaker,
Knowledge, Closure, and Lotteries: Kline Conference at the University of Missouri
(2003)
Speaker,
Workshop on Recent Work in Philosophy of Language, RSSS, ANU (2003)
Speaker,
Contextualism in Epistemology and Beyond, Conference at University
of Massachusetts at Amherst (2002)
Speaker,
Segundo Taller De Lenguaje y Logica, Instituto de Investigaciones
Filosoficas,
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (2002)
Speaker,
Special Session on Semantics and Pragmatics, Kentucky Foreign Language
Association (2002)
Speaker,
Conference on Context-Relativity in Semantics, Philosophy Colloquium, University of Cincinnati (2001)
Speaker,
Conference on The Semantics-Pragmatics Interface, Birkbeck College, University of London (2001)
Speaker,
Second Annual Barcelona
Conference on the Theory of Reference (2001)
Speaker,
Lenguaje, Mente y Mundo , Tlaxcala,
Mexico
(2001)
Speaker,
Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference, University of Idaho
(2000)
Speaker,
Cognitive Science in the new Millenium, Cornell University
(2000)
Speaker,
Conference on Methods in Philosophy and the Sciences, New School of Social
Research (1998)
Speaker,
Joint Session of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science and
the Mind
Association, University of
St. Andrews, Scotland
(1993)
Editorial Boards
Manuscrito, 2011-
Philosopher’s Imprint,
2000-
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Subject
Editor, Philosophy of Language, 2002-
Nous,
Associate Editor, 2004-
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2007-
Journal of Philosophical Logic, 2008-
Journal of Semantics, 2009-
Philosophical Review (1995-2000)
I
regularly referee papers for the seven journals on which I currently
serve as a
member of the Editorial Board. In addition to these journals, I have
refereed
papers for: Philosophical Review*, Linguistics and
Philosophy*, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research*, Mind
and Language*, Semantics and
Linguistic Theory*, Philosophical Studies*,
Linguistic Inquiry, The Philosophical Quarterly, Ratio, Mind*,
Erkenntnis, Dialectica. (* I have
refereed multiple submissions for these journals)