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I am a philosopher at the University of Guelph , in the very pleasant city of Guelph , Ontario, Canada. (It’s pronounced “gwelf.”) My academic training was at the University of Toronto and the University of Pittsburgh where I completed my PhD under the direction of Robert Brandom and John McDowell .
In addition to normal departmental service responsibilities I am the Editorial Board Coordinator of the Canadian Journal of Philosophy . In this capacity I do an initial review of each of the 400 or so submissions we receive each year (of which we publish about 6%), advise the 16-member board of Executive Editors who are responsible for the rest of their handling, and manage the journal’s operations.
I work in philosophy of language and philosophy of mind. I’m interested in some non-standard kinds of uses of words and concepts, because understanding these illuminates what is going on in more standard uses. So I’m interested in scare-quoting, a device that challenges some received claims about the nature of assertion, e.g. that one should believe what one asserts. And I’m interested in how we use concepts to specify others’ thoughts (as in using the concept LIVELY to think that Susan thinks that New Orle
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