Robert Stalnaker
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Robert Culp Stalnaker is Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
His work concerns, among other things, the philosophical foundations of semantics, pragmatics, philosophical logic, decision theory, game theory, the theory of conditionals, epistemology, and the philosophy of mind.
Along with Saul Kripke, David Lewis, and Alvin Plantinga, Stalnaker has been one of the most influential theorists exploring philosophical aspects of possible world semantics, including the semantics of context and counterfactual conditionals.
Stalnaker is the author of three books and dozens of articles in major philosophical journals. He earned his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1965. His thesis advisor was Stuart Hampshire, though it is said that he was more influenced by another faculty member, Carl Hempel. Stalnaker was on the faculty of the Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell University for many years before arriving at MIT.
[edit] Selected bibliography
- Inquiry (MIT Press, 1987). ISBN 0-262-69113-2
- Context and Content: Essays on Intentionality in Speech and Thought (Oxford University Press, 1999). ISBN 0-19-823707-3.
- Ways a World Might Be: Metaphysical and Anti-Metaphysical Essays (Oxford University Press, 2003). ISBN 0-19-925149-5
