Lionel Shapiro
Associate Professor
Philosophy Department
University of Connecticut
303 Manchester Hall
344 Mansfield Road, U-2054
Storrs, CT 06269
860-486-9470
email: lionel.shapiro@uconn.edu
Research
Many of my current research interests concern the proper roles of the concept of truth and of propositional-attitude ascriptions in theorizing about the intentionality of language and thought. Related interests include deflationary views of semantic notions and (in philosophical logic) approaches to semantic paradox. My strong historical interests (especially in early modern philosophy) tend to focus on issues of intentionality.
Articles (see list of abstracts)
“Validity and Truth-Preservation”, (with Julien Murzi), forthcoming in Unifying the Philosophy of Truth, ed. T. Achourioti, K. Fujimoto, H. Galinon, and J. Martinez-Fernandez (Springer)
“Intentionality Bifurcated: A Lesson from Early Modern Philosophy?”, forthcoming in Nature and Norms in Thought: Contemporary Perspectives on Early Modern Philosophy, ed. M. Lenz and A. Waldow (Springer)
“Intentional Relations and the Sideways-on View: On McDowell’s Critique of Sellars”, forthcoming in European Journal of Philosophy
“Objective Being and ‘Ofness’ in Descartes”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 82 (2012): 378-418
“Expressibility and the Liar’s Revenge”, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 89 (2011): 297-314
“Two Kinds of Intentionality in Locke”, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 91 (2010): 554-586
“Naïve Truth-Conditions and Meaning”, Philosophical Quarterly 58 (2008): 265-277
“The Rationale Behind Revision-Rule Semantics”, Philosophical Studies 129 (2006): 477-515
“Brandom on the Normativity of Meaning”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 68 (2004): 141-160
“‘The Transition from Sensibility to Reason In Regressu’: Indeterminism in Kant’s Reflexionen”, Kant-Studien 92 (2001): 3-12
“Toward ‘Perfect Collections of Properties’: Locke on the Constitution of Substantial Sorts”, Canadian Journal of Philosophy 29 (1999): 551-593
“‘Coordinative Definition’ and Reichenbach’s Semantic Framework: A Reassessment”, Erkenntnis 41 (1994): 287-323
Book review
Recent teaching (these courses use HuskyCT; see list of course descriptions)
Phil 1101 Problems of Philosophy
Phil 1103 Philosophical Classics
Phil 2221 Ancient Philosophy
Phil 2222 17th and 18th Century Philosophy
Phil 5320 Seminar in the History of Philosophy: Locke
Phil 5320 Seminar in the History of Philosophy: Wilfrid Sellars (with Austen Clark)
Phil 5342 Seminar in the Philosophy of Language: Relativism and Pragmatism