David Braun
PhD
Director of Graduate Studies; Professor; Patrick & Edna J. Romanell Chair in Philosophy
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, metaphysics, logic
Education
PhD, UCLA
Current Research
Non-referring terms, indexicals and demonstratives, attitude ascriptions, and questions and answers
Courses
- Philosophy of Language
- Philosophy of Mind
- Logic
- Introduction to Philosophy
Selected Publications
- “Still for Direct Reference,” in Andrea Bianchi (Ed.), Language and Reality from a Naturalistic Perspective: Themes from Michael Devitt. Springer, 2019.
- “Utterances and Expressions in Semantics and Logic,” in Ken Turner and Laurence Horn, (Eds.), Pragmatics, Truth, and Underspecification: Towards an Atlas of Meaning. Brill, 2018.
- “Implicating Questions,” Mind & Language 26 (2011), 574-595.
- “Complex Demonstratives and Their Singular Contents,” Linguistics and Philosophy 31 (2008), 57-99.
- “Vague, So Untrue,” (with Theodore Sider), Noûs 41 (2007), 133-156.
- “Now You Know Who Hong Oak Yun Is,” Philosophical Issues 16 (2006), pp.24-42.
- “Empty Names, Fictional Names, Mythical Names,” Noûs 39 (2005), pp. 596-631.