sexta-feira, 2 de janeiro de 2009

The Second Life Herald

Virtual Worlds, Contextualism, and the Myth of Fiction

Peter Ludlow (PhD Columbia U, 1985) taught at the state University of New York at Stony Brook, the University of Michigan, and the University of Toronto before joining Northwestern University. He has been working on a number of topics lately. Following is a rough summary of some of his areas of research.
  • The Philosophy of Generative Linguistics
  • Language and Epistemology (contextualism, etc)
  • Microlanguages and the Dynamic Lexicon
  • Natural Logic, Directional Entailingness, and the Logical Form of Determiners
  • Tensism and Presentism in the Philosophy of Time
  • The Syntax and Semantics of Intensional Environments]]
  • The Semantics of Quantified Noun Phrases
  • The Nature of Fiction and Fanfiction
  • Expressivist Foundations for Natural Language Semantics

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