Lenny Clapp
My primary research interests are in the philosophy of language, though I also have interests in the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of cognitive science. Much of my work concerns the alleged compositionality of language and thought: If, as the evidence strongly suggests, neither language nor thought are compositional in the way Frege proposed, then what is thought and how is communication possible? I have been an investigador at the IIF at UNAM since 2007. Before coming to Mexico I was a professor in the philosophy department at Illinois Wesleyan University, where I was granted tenure in 2004. I received my Ph.D. from MIT in 1994, and my BA from Wisconsin in 1988. I enjoy goofing off with my daughter Maia, and riding bikes.
Mis principales intereses de investigación son en filosofía del lenguaje, aunque también tengo intereses en la filosofía de la mente y de la ciencia cognitive. Mucho de mi trabajo concierne a la supuesta composicionalidad del lenguaje y el pensamiento: Si, como la evidencia sugiere, ni el pensamiento ni el lenguaje son composicionales de la forma que Frege propuso, entonces ¿qué es el pensamiento y cómo es possible la comunicación? He sido investigador en el IIF de la UNAM desde 2007. Antes de venire a México era profesor en el departamento de filosofía de la Illinois Wesleyan University, donde obtuve la definitividad en 2004. Recibí mi doctorado del MIT en 1994, y mi licenciatura de Wisconsin en 1988. Disfruto jugar con mi hija Maia, y correr carreras de bicicleta.
ALGUNAS PUBLICACIONES
- "Unarticulated Tensions", forthcoming in Context Dependence, Perspective and Relativity, François Recanati, Isidora Stojanovic, and Neftalí Villanueva, (eds.) Mouton de Gruytter, 2010
- "The Rhetorical Relations Approach to Indirect Speech Acts: Problems and Prospects," Pragmatics and Cognition, 17:1, 43-76, 2009.
- "The Problem of Negative Existencials Does not exist: A Case For Dynamic Semantics," Journal of Pragmatics, 41:1422-1434, 2009
- "Propositional Attitudes, Philosophical Aspects," in Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics - 2nd Edition, K. Brown (ed.), Elsevier Publishers, 2005.
- "Davidson's Program and Interpreted Logical Forms," Linguistics and Philosophy, 25: 261-297, 2002.
- "'Obviously Propositions are Nothing . . .': Russell and the Logical Form of Belief Reports," with Robert Stainton, in Logical Form and Language, G. Preyer and G. Peter (eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
- "Disjunctive Properties: Multiple Realizations," The Journal of Philosophy, Volume XCVIII, Number 3, March, 111-136, 2001.
- "Senses, Sensations and Brain Processes," The Southwest Philosophy Review, 14: 139-148, 1997.
- Review of Reference and Reflexivity by John Perry, Critica, Vol.41, No. 123, 2009.
OBRAS EN PROGRESO
- "Varieties of the Generality Constraint"
- "Indexical Color Predicates: Truth - Conditional, Semantics vs Truth - Conditional Pragmatics"
- "Is Even Thought Compositional?"
- "How to Disagree About Nothing"
E-mail:lclapp@filosoficas.unam.mx
Tel.
: (55)5622 - 7451