Lionel Shapiro
Assistant Professor
Department of Philosophy
University of Connecticut
303 Manchester Hall
344 Mansfield Road, U-2054
Storrs, CT 06269
860-486-9470
email: lionel.shapiro@uconn.edu
Education
Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh (2004)
My current research interests center on the roles of the concept of truth
and of propositional-attitude ascriptions in theorizing about the bearing of
language and thought on reality. In philosophical logic, I am mainly interested
in the status of deflationary views of truth and implication, and in semantic
approaches to the semantic paradoxes. My strong interests in the history of
philosophy (primarily 17th century, but also the history of analytic
philosophy) tend to focus on issues of intentionality.
Teaching (these courses use WebCT; click for brief descriptions)
Phil 101 Problems of Philosophy
Phil 103 Philosophical Classics
Phil 221 Ancient Philosophy
Phil 222 17th and 18th Century Philosophy (Fall 2007)
Phil 320 Topics in the History of Philososophy: Locke
Publications (list of abstracts)
“Naive Truth-Conditions and Meaning,” forthcoming in Philosophical Quarterly
“The Rationale Behind Revision-Rule Semantics,” Philosophical Studies
129 (2006): 477-515 (PDF).
“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 (PDF).
“Toward ‘Perfect Collections of Properties’: Locke on the Constitution of
Substantial Sorts,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 29 (1999): 551-593
(revised and expanded version).
“‘Coordinative Definition’ and Reichenbach’s Semantic Framework: A
Reassessment,” Erkenntnis 41 (1994): 287-323.