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Name
  
Ernest Lepore

Role
  
Philosopher


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Influenced by
  
Donald Davidson, Jerry Fodor, Paul Grice

Books
  
Insensitive Semantics: A Defens, Meaning and Argument, Actions and Events: P, Language Turned on Itself: The, Donald Davidson's truth‑theo

Similar People
  
Herman Cappelen, Donald Davidson, Jerry Fodor, Gilbert Harman, Zenon Pylyshyn

Education
  
University of Minnesota

Ernest Lepore


Ernest Lepore is an American philosopher and cognitive scientist. He is Acting Director of the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science, and a professor at Rutgers University. He is well known for his work on the philosophy of language and mind, often in collaboration with Jerry Fodor, Herman Cappelen and Kirk Ludwig, as well as his work on philosophical logic and the philosophy of Donald Davidson. Lepore earned his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. Among his doctoral students are Kent Johnson, Adam Sennet, Sam Cumming, Will Starr, Michael Johnson, Tom Donaldson, Luvell Anderson, Josh Armstrong and Una Stojnić. Professor Lepore currently teaches logic at Rutgers University.

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Selected publications

  • ’’Imagination and Convention: Distinguishing Grammar and Inference in Language’’, with Matthew Stone (Oxford University Press, 2015)
  • Handbook in Philosophy of Language, ed. with B. Smith, (Oxford University Press, 2006)
  • Insensitive Semantics, with Herman Cappelen (2004, Basil Blackwell)
  • Donald Davidson: Truth, Meaning, Rationality in Mind, with Kirk Ludwig (Oxford University Press, 2005)
  • Donald Davidson's truth-theoretic Semantics, with Kirk Ludwig (Oxford University Press, 2007),
  • Meaning and Argument, with Sam Cumming (Blackwell, 2000)
  • Holism: A Shopper's Guide, with Jerry Fodor (Blackwell, 1991)
  • The Compositionality Papers, with Jerry Fodor (Oxford University Press, 2002)
  • What Every Student Should Know with Sarah-Jane Leslie (Rutgers Press, 2002).

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