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词条 Robert Stalnaker
释义

  1. Education and career

  2. Philosophical work

  3. Selected publications

  4. See also

  5. References

  6. External links

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|era = Contemporary philosophy
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|name = Robert Stalnaker
|birth_date = 22 January 1940
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|school_tradition = Analytic
|main_interests = Philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, decision theory, pragmatics
|notable_ideas = Two-dimensionalism, possible world semantics, assertion as narrowing the conversational common ground to exclude situations in which the asserted content is false
|influences = David K. Lewis, H. Paul Grice
|influenced = Jason Stanley
}}Robert C. Stalnaker (born 22 January 1940[1]) is an American philosopher, who is Laurence S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[2] He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.[3]

Education and career

He earned his BA from Wesleyan University and earned his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1965. His thesis advisor was Stuart Hampshire, though he was strongly influenced by another faculty member, Carl Hempel. Stalnaker taught briefly at Yale University and the University of Illinois, and then for many years at the Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell University before joining the MIT faculty in 1988.[2] He retired from MIT in 2016.[2] His many students include Jason Stanley, Zoltan Szabo and Delia Graff Fara.

In 2007, Stalnaker delivered the John Locke Lectures at Oxford University on the topic of "Our Knowledge of the Internal World."[4] And, in May 2017, he delivered the Casalegno Lectures at the University of Milan on "Counterfactuals and Practical Reason."[5]

Philosophical work

His work concerns, among other things, the philosophical foundations of semantics, pragmatics, philosophical logic, decision theory, game theory, the theory of conditionals, epistemology, and the philosophy of mind. But all of these interests are in the service of addressing the problem of intentionality, "what it is to represent the world in both speech and thought".[6] In his work, he seeks to provide a naturalistic account of intentionality, characterizing representation in terms of causal and modal notions.

Along with Saul Kripke, David Lewis, and Alvin Plantinga, Stalnaker has been one of the most influential theorists exploring philosophical aspects of possible world semantics. According to his view of possible worlds, they are ways this world could have been, which in turn are maximal properties that this world could have had. This view distinguishes him from the influential modal realist Lewis, who argued that possible worlds are concrete entities just like this world.[7]

In addition to his contributions to the metaphysics of possible worlds, he has used the apparatus of possible worlds semantics to explore many issues in the semantics of natural language, including counterfactual and indicative conditionals, and presupposition. His view of assertion as narrowing the conversational common ground to exclude situations in which the asserted content is false was a major impetus in recent developments in semantics and pragmatics, in particular, the so-called "dynamic" turn.[8]

Stalnaker is the author of four books and dozens of articles in major philosophical journals.

Selected publications

  • "A Theory of Conditionals," in N. Rescher (ed.), Studies in Logical Theory (Oxford University Press, 1968).
  • "Pragmatics," Synthese 22 (1970): 272-289.
  • "Possible Worlds," Nous 10(1976): 65-75
  • Ifs: Conditionals, Belief, Decision, Chance, and Time, edited with William Harper and Glenn Pearce (Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1981).
  • Inquiry (Bradford Books, MIT Press, 1984)
  • "On What's In the Head," in Philosophical Perspectives, 3: Philosophy of Mind and Action Theory (1989): 287-316
  • Context and Content: Essays on Intentionality in Speech and Thought (Oxford University Press, 1999)
  • Ways a World Might Be: Metaphysical and Anti-Metaphysical Essays (Oxford University Press, 2003)
  • Our Knowledge of the Internal World (Oxford University Press, 2008)
  • Mere Possibilities. Metaphysical Foundations of Modal Semantics (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2012).

See also

  • American philosophy
  • List of American philosophers

References

1. ^{{Citation|last=Hunter|first=David|title=Stalnaker, Robert Culp|date=2010|url=http://www.oxfordreference.com/abstract/10.1093/acref/9780199754663.001.0001/acref-9780199754663-e-918|work=The Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers|publisher=Continuum|language=en|doi=10.1093/acref/9780199754663.001.0001/acref-9780199754663-e-918|isbn=9780199754663|access-date=2019-01-22}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2015/robert-stalnaker-profile-0320 |title=Philosopher Robert Stalnaker solves problems the MIT way | MIT News |website=Newsoffice.mit.edu |date=2015-03-20 |accessdate=2016-01-27}}
3. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.britac.ac.uk/fellowship/sections/index.cfm?member=24669 |title=Sections - British Academy |website=Britac.ac.uk |date= |accessdate=2016-01-27 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160206181729/http://www.britac.ac.uk/fellowship/sections/index.cfm?member=24669 |archivedate=2016-02-06 |df= }}
4. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/misc/johnlocke/index.shtml |title=John Locke Lectures - Faculty of Philosophy |website=Philosophy.ox.ac.uk |date=2015-09-21 |accessdate=2016-01-27 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070829191222/http://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/misc/johnlocke/index.shtml |archivedate=2007-08-29 |df= }}
5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.filosofia.unimi.it/fl/index.php/casalegno-lectures/2017-robert-stalnaker |title=Casalegno Lectures - La Statale |accessdate=2017-05-23}}
6. ^  {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071229025239/http://www.pyke-eye.com/view/phil_II_19.html |date=December 29, 2007 }}
7. ^Stalnaker 2003; pp 27-28
8. ^  {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060225112818/http://jarda.peregrin.cz/mybibl/PDFTxt/238.pdf |date=February 25, 2006 }}

External links

  • Bibliography
  • [https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/the-possible-worlds-hedgehog/ the possible worlds hedgehog] 2013 interview of Stalnaker by Richard Marshall for 3:AM magazine
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