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E-mail:
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Peter Pagin was born in Stockholm 1953 and was educated at Stockholm university. He received his basic degree, fil kand, in philosophy and mathematics in 1981. PhD studies 1982-87 with professor Dag Prawitz as supervisor. Docent degree at Stockholm university 1992. Postdoc research position (forskarassistent) 1987-1991. During the fall semester 1996 fellow at The Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies in Social Science (SCASSS), Uppsala. Full professor from January 2002. Visiting professor at the University of Barcelona, Feb-July 2008. Fellow at Institut d’Études Avancées, IEA-Paris / Visiting researcher at Institut Jean-Nicod, spring 2010. Visiting professor at EHESS, Paris, June 2010.
Co-founder
and first coordinator of the European PLM
network of Philosophy of Language and Mind.
Co-founder and director of the CLLAM center for Logic, Language, and Mind, at the Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University.
Full CV.
In the first place, Pagin's area is philosophy of language, and within philosophy of language he has primarily taken an interest in the foundations of semantic theories and semantic concepts. During a couple of years he has worked on the principle of compositionality for natural language. He has tried to develop two thoughts: on the one hand that compositional semantic theories contribute to explain the success of linguistic communication, and on the other hand that precisely this explanatory role is the foundation of semantic concepts like truth and referens.
His
interest
in the philosophy of language has taken Pagin into areas bordering on
other
disciplines, like philosophy of mind (sensation terms), logic and
formal
semantics (compositionality), history of literature (point of view
markers)
and cognitive psychology and psychiatry (speakers with autism). He has
also
written about rules and rule-following, vagueness, synonymy, assertion
and
about modern philosophers like Wittgenstein, Quine, Davidson and
Dummett.
Research project Interpretational Complexity, funded by The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation, 2012-2014.
Participating in the ESF Eurocores research project Communication in Context, in the EuroUnderstanding Call. Project leader: Åsa Wikforss.
56. 'Compositionality I: Definitions and Variants', with Dag Westerståhl, Philosophy Compass 5:265-82, 2010. Pre-publication pdf.
55. 'Assertion not possibly social', Journal of Pragmatics 41:2563-67. Pre-publication pdf.
54.
'Compositionality, understanding, and proofs', Mind 118:713-37. Pre-publication
pdf.
53.
'Communication and the complexity of semantics', forthcoming in Wolfram
Hinzen, Edouard Machery and Markus Werning (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Compositionality.
Pre-publication
pdf.
52.
'Compositionality', with Dag Westerståhl, in
Klaus von Heusinger, Claudia Maienborn, and Paul Portner (eds.), Semantics. An International Handbook of
Natural Language Meaning, Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, 96-123. Pre-publication
pdf.
51. 'Vagueness and central gaps', in R Dietz and Sebastiano Moruzzi (eds.), Cuts and Clouds, 254-72, Oxford University Press, 2010. Pre-publication pdf.
50. 'Intuitionism and
the anti-justification of bivalence', in S. Lindström,
E. Palmgren, K. Segerberg, and V. Stoltenberg-Hansen (eds) Logicism, Intuitionism, and Formalism —
What has Become of Them?, 221-36, Synthese Library, Springer,
2008. Pdf file.
49. 'Indeterminacy and the analytic/synthetic distinctions: a survey', Synthèse 164:1-18, 2008. Pre-publication pdf.
48. 'Relational modality', with Kathrin Glüer, Journal of Logic, Language and Information 17, 307-22, 2008. Prep-publication pdf. An earlier version was published in H. Lagerlund, S. Lindström and R. Sliwinski (eds), Modality Matters. Twentyfive Essays in Honour of Krister Segerberg , 2006, 123-48.
47. 'What
is communicative success?', Canadian
Journal of Philosophy 38:85-116, 2008. Pre-publication
pdf.
46. 'Informativeness and Moore's Paradox', Analysis 68:46-57, 2008. Pre-publication pdf.
45. 'Content, context and composition', with Jeff Pelletier, in G. Peter and G. Preyer (eds), Content and Context. Essays on Semantics and Pragmatics, 25-62, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007. Pre-publication pdf.
44. 'Assertion', survey article, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy 2007, http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/assertion/. Local Pdf file.
43. 'Analyticity, modality and general terms', with Kathrin Glüer, in T. Rønnow-Rasmussen, Homage à Wlodek. Philosophical Papers Dedicated to Wlodek Rabinowicz, Department of Philosophy, Lund University, 2007. CD publication and web publication: http://www.fil.lu.se/HommageaWlodek/
42. 'Proper names and relational modality', with Kathrin Glüer, Linguistics and Philosophy 29:507-35, 2006. Pre-publication pdf.
41. 'The status of charity II. Charity, probability and simplicity', International Journal of Philosophical Studies 14:361-83, 2006. Pre-publication pdf.
40. 'Intersubjective externalism', in T. Marvan (ed) What Determines Content? The Internalism/Externalism Dispute, Cambridge Scholar Press, Newcastle upon Tyne, 39-54, 2006.Pdf-file.
39. 'Meaning holism', in E Lepore och B Smith (eds), Handbook of Philosophy of Language, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006, 213-32. Pre-publication pdf.
38. ' "Means that"
and the liar', in H. Malmgren (ed), Kvantifikator
för en Dag. Essays dedicated to Dag Westerståhl on his
sixtieth birthday,
Philosophical Communications Web Series, no 35, Department of
Philosophy, Gothenburg University, 2006.
http://www.phil.gu.se/posters/festskrift3/, 203-30. Link.
37. 'Compositionality
and
context', in G Preyer (ed), Contextualism in
Philosophy, Oxford University Press, 303-48, 2005. Pre-publication
pdf.
36. 'Review of
Stephen
Schiffer, The Things We Mean,
Oxford University Press, 2003, in Notre
Dame Philosophical Reviews, July 2005: Link.
35. 'Is assertion social?', Journal of Pragmatics 36:833-59, 2004. Pre-publication pdf.
34. 'Point of view and belief attribution', in Göran Rossholm (ed). Essays on Fiction and Perspective, Peter Lang Verlag, Bern, 171-97, 2004. Pre-publication pdf.
33. 'Andras
perspektiv',
('Others' points of view', in Swedish) in Swedish, in Att Anlägga Perspektiv,
Staffan Hellberg and Göran Rossholm (eds), Symposion, Stockholm,
109-30, 2005. Pre-publication
pdf.
32. 'Quine and the problem of synonymy', in H-J Glock, K Glüer, G Keil (eds), Two Dogmas of Empiricism. Fifty Years Later (= Grazer Philosophische Studien 66). Rodopi, Amsterdam, 171-97, 2003. Pre-publication pdf.
31.
'Communication
and strong compositionality', Journal of Philosophical Logic
32, 287-322, 2003. Pre-publication
pdf.
30. 'Schiffer on
communication', Facta Philosophica 5, 25-48, 2003. Pre-publication
pdf.
29. 'Meaning
theory and autistic speakers', with Kathrin Glüer, Mind &
Language 18, 23-51, 2003. Pre-publication
pdf.
28. 'Mening
hos
yttranden', ('Meaning of utterances', in Swedish), Filosofisk
Tidskrift 2, 3-18, 2003. Pre-publication
pdf.
27. 'Rule-following, compositionality and the normativity of meaning',
in D
Prawitz (ed), Meaning and Interpretation, Konferenser 55,
Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitetsakademien, Stockholm 2002. Pre-publication
pdf.
26. Review of Mattias
Paul: Success in Referential Communication, Kluwer 1999: Theoria
LXVII-3:273-80, 2002. Pre-publication
pdf.
25.
'Semantic
triangulation', in P Kotatko, P Pagin och G Segal (eds), Interpreting
Davidson, CSLI Publications, Stanford 2001. Pre-publication
pdf.
24.
'A
Quinean definition of synonymy', Erkenntnis 55:7-32, 2001. Pre-publication
pdf.
23. 'Frege on truth and judgment', Organon F VIII, 1-13, 2001. Pre-publication pdf.
22. 'Att förstå andra: frågeställningar kring kommunikation och språklig mening', ('To understand others: questions concerning communication and linguistic meaning') in Swedish, in K Dahlbäck (ed), Att förstå det Mänskliga: Humanistisk Forskning vid Stockholms Universitet, Natur och Kultur, 2000. Pre-publication pdf.
21. 'Sensation terms', Dialectica 54:177-99, 2000. Pre-publication pdf.
20. 'Publicness and indeterminacy', in Kotatko and Orenstein (eds), Knowledge, Language and Logic: Questions for Quine, Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Kluwer, 2000. Pre-publication pdf.
A shorter Swedish version, 'Offentlighet och obestämdhet', is published in Filosofisk tidskrift 4:111-127, 1995.
19. Interview with Michael Dummett, with Göran Sundholm, Lingua e Stile XXXIV:133-44, 1999.
18. 'Rules of meaning and practical reasoning', with Kathrin Glüer, Synthèse 117:207-27, 1999. Pre-publication pdf.
17. 'Radical interpretation and compositional structure', in U. Zeglen (ed), Discussions with Donald Davidson; Truth, Meaning and Knowledge, Routledge, 1999. Pre-publication pdf.
In Polish translation, in U. Zeglen (ed), Dyskusje Z Donaldem Davidsonem: O Prawddzie, Jezyku I Umsyle, Lublin 1996.
16. 'Bivalence: meaning theory vs metaphysics', Theoria 64:37-66, 1998. Pre-publication pdf.
15. 'Intuitionistic logic and anti-realism', Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 1998.
14. 'Is compositionality compatible with holism?', Mind & Language. 12:11-33, 1997. Pre-publication pdf.
In italian translation, in M. Dell'Utri (ed), Olismo, Quodlibet, Macerata 2002.
13. 'Flexible
variable-binding and Montague grammar', with Dag Westerståhl, in
P Dekker och M Stokhof (eds), Proceedings of the ninth Amsterdam
Colloquium, 519-525, Amsterdam 1994. Pre-publication pdf.
12. 'Knowledge of Proofs', Topoi 13:93-100, 1994. Pre-publication pdf.
Reprinted in D Jaquette (ed), Philosophy of Mathematics: An Anthology, Blackwell, Oxford 2001.
11. 'Rules', Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 1994.
Revised version in Concise Encyclopedia of philosophy of Language, 1997, and in Concise Encyclopedia of Pragmatics, 1998, in both cases Pergamon Press.
10. 'Convention', Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 1994.
Revised version in Concise Encyclopedia of philosophy of Language, 1997, Pergamon Press.
9.
'Moderna
meningsteorier', ('Modern theories of meaning'), in Swedish, Filosofisk
Tidskrift 1:3-25, 1994. Pre-publication
pdf.
8.
'Predicate
logic with flexibly binding operators and natural language semantics',
with Dag Westerståhl, Journal of Logic, Language and
Information 2:89-128, 1993. Pre-publication pdf.
7. Review of Sven Danielsson, Filosofiska Utredningar, Thales: in Swedish, Filosofisk Tidskrift 2:47-57, 1993.
6. 'Names in and out of thought', Philosophical Studies 66:27-51, 1992.
5. Review of R Barrett och R Gibson (eds), Perspectives on Quine, Blackwell, Oxford 1990: History and Philosophy of Logic 13:240-2, 1992.
4. Review of Anita Avramides, Mind and Meaning, An Examination of a Gricean Account of Language, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. 1989: Theoria 56:232-5, 1990.
3. Review of Roy Sorenson, Blindspots, Clarendon Press, Oxford 1988: History and Philosophy of Logic 11:243-5, 1990.
2. Review of Bob Hale, Abstract Objects, Basil Blackwell, Oxford 1987, History and Philosophy of Logic 10, 1989.
1. Ideas for a Theory of Rules, doctoral dissertation, 1987. Pdf-file (scanned, searchable, medium quality, 4 MB); Pdf-file (scanned, searchable, high quality, 40 MB).