Stephen Schiffer
Stephen Schiffer (born 1940) is a philosopher and the Silver Professor of Philosophy at New York University (NYU). He was awarded a B.A. in philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania in 1962 and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Oxford University in 1970. He has specialized in the philosophy of language, and is the author of three significant works concerning semantic meaning: Meaning (OUP, 1972), Remnants of Meaning (MIT Press, 1987), and The Things We Mean (OUP, 2003). He was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007.[1]