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Jonas Åkerman
Department of Philosophy
E-mail: jonas.akerman@philosophy.su.se
Office: D824
Phone: +468161018


Degrees

B.A. with a major in Theoretical Philosophy (2004)

PhD in Theoretical Philosophy (2009)


Publications

Extensions in Flux: An Essay on Vagueness and Context Sensitivity
(Doctoral dissertation)


'A Plea for Pragmatics'
(Synthese 170: 155-167. Available online here)


'Communication and Indexical Reference'
(Forthcoming in Philosophical Studies. Available online here)


'Vagueness, Semantics and Psychology'
(Forthcoming in Philosophical Quarterly)


'Hold the Context Fixed, Vagueness Still Remains'
(With Patrick Greenough, forthcoming in Cuts and Clouds: Vaguenesss, its Nature and its Logic, Edited by Richard Dietz and Sebastiano Moruzzi, OUP)


'Vagueness and Non-Indexical Contextualism'
(With Patrick Greenough, in New Waves in Philosophy of Language, Edited by Sarah Sawyer, Palgrave Macmillan)


Review of Françios Recanati's Perspectival Thought
(The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 62, No. 4)



Teaching

2004 History of Philosophy (tutorials)

2004-2009 Introduction to Logic (tutorials and occasional lectures)

2008 Vagueness (details are available in Swedish at the course webpage)

2010 Philosophy of Language



External Presentations

'Non-Standard Features of Contextualism about Vagueness' (Arché, Vagueness Seminar, 5th Oct 2006)

'Contextualist Theories of Vagueness' (with Patrick Greenough, Arché 7th Vagueness Workshop, 4th Nov 2006)

'Truth Contextualism and Interest-Relativity' (Arché, Vagueness Seminar, 16th Nov 2006)

'Vagueness, Belief Forming, and Similarity Constraints' (Oxford 11th Graduate Conference, 11th Nov 2007)

'The Case for Contextualism about Vagueness' (ECAP 6, 26th Aug 2008)



Språk
SvenskaEnglish


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