Philosophy of Language
Philosophy of language is a dominant theme in much of the work conducted at Manchester. This work is based on the Manchester Centre for Philosophy of Language. Chris Daly, Sean Crawford, and Graham Stevens all share an interest in singular and direct reference. Graham Stevens works on definite descriptions and natural language quantification as well indexicality and the semantics/pragmatics interface. Michael Scott works on expressivism and all aspects of religious language. In collaborative research, Michael Scott and Graham Stevens work both on issues surrounding semantic antirealism and on metaphor. David Liggins and Chris Daly both work on fictionalism and related questions of philosophical method. Along with Julian Dodd, they also work on issues surrounding truth and truthmaking that intersect philosophy of language and metaphysics. Historical aspects of the philosophy of language, particularly in relation to Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, and the Vienna Circle, are investigated by Thomas Uebel, Julian Dodd, and Graham Stevens.
See related pages: philosophy of religion, metaphysics, ethics, epistemology, history of philosophy
Postgraduate modules
- PHIL60152: MRes Ethics: The Moral Problem
- PHIL60421: MRes Pragmatics
- PHIL60242: MRes: Logical Properties