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Michael Devitt

Special Professor, Faculty of Arts

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Biography

Michael Devitt is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

For more information, please visit his CUNY homepage.

He is the author of:

Designation (Columbia University Press, 1981) Realism and Truth (Basil Blackwell, 1984) Language and Reality (with Kim Sterelny, MIT Press, 1987) Coming to Our Senses (Cambridge University Press, 1996) The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Language (co-edited with Richard Hanley, Blackwell, 2006) Ignorance of Language (Clarendon Press, 2006)

as well as many articles on philosophy of language and linguistics, philosophy of mind and psychology, realism and truth.

Research Summary

Michael Devitt is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

For more information, please visit his CUNY homepage.

He is the author of:

  • Designation (Columbia University Press, 1981)
  • Realism and Truth (Basil Blackwell, 1984)
  • Language and Reality (with Kim Sterelny, MIT Press, 1987)
  • Coming to Our Senses (Cambridge University Press, 1996)
  • The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Language (co-edited with Richard Hanley, Blackwell, 2006)
  • Ignorance of Language (Clarendon Press, 2006)

as well as many articles on philosophy of language and linguistics, philosophy of mind and psychology, realism and truth.

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