Senior thesis / Graduate supervision

Below are the subjects, in no particular order, more or less broad, on which I'm happy to offer undergraduate and graduate supervision this year. Starred items indicate undergraduate supervision only.

Philosophy of language

• Two-dimensional semantics
• Semantics and pragmatics of imperatives
• Pejorative language
• Gricean pragmatics
• Speech acts
• Rule-following
• *Semantic indeterminacy

Metaphysics

• *Realism and anti-realism
• Fictionalism (including in mathematics)
• Modal metaphysics (foundational issues)
• Design arguments
• Free will
• Fatalism
• Transcendental arguments
• Realism and objectivity
• Debunking arguments

Moral philosophy

• Coercion and manipulation
• Psychology of moral judgement
• Debunking arguments
• Evolutionary approaches to moral psychology
• Blame
• Theories of respect

Philosophy of science

• Explanation (including mechanism)
• *Theories of space and time
• Theories and representation
• *Realism and anti-realism

Specific figures and traditions

• Hobbes (any area)
• Berkeley
• Leibniz (excluding mechanics/dynamics)
• Mandeville
• *Kant (excluding aesthetics)
• *Fichte
• *Frege
• *Mach
• Pragmatism (any period, excluding Dewey, Rorty)
• Russell (until 1918)
• Moore
• Logical positivism (any figure)
• *Later Wittgenstein
• Quine
• Dummett
• Frankfurt
• Williams

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