David E Taylor

Contact Me

detaylor@umn.edu
612-625-6563

Philosophy
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271 19th Avenue South

Affiliations

• Philosophy
• Philosophy of Science, Minnesota Center for

Links

• Personal Site
• Foundations Interest Group

Educational Background & Specialties

Educational Background

• Ph.D.: Philosophy, Stanford University, 2013.
• B.A.: Philosophy and Mathematics, Franklin & Marshall College, 2007.

Specialties

• Philosophy of Language
• Metaphysics
• History of Analytic Philosophy
• Quine

Courses Taught

• Philosophy of Language
• Metaphysics
• Epistemology
• Contemporary Moral Theories
• Symbolic Logic I
• Modal Logic
• Freshman Seminar: Is Truth Relative?

Publications

• "Deflationism, Creeping Minimalism, and Explanations of Content" in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (forthcoming).
• "A Minimal Characterization of Indeterminacy" in Philosophers' Imprint (2018)
• "Deflationism and Referential Indeterminacy" in Philosophical Review (2017).
• "Quine on Matters of Fact" in Synthese (2016).
• "What in the World is Semantic Indeterminacy?" (w/ Alexi Burgess) in Analytic Philosophy (2015).
• "Pyrrhonian Skepticism, Value Nihilism and the Good of Knowledge" in Ancient Philosophy (2014).