Anthony Everett

Research Interests

Anthony Everett read philosophy as an undergraduate at Cambridge and received his PhD from Stanford University in 2000. He has a broad range of research interests within the philosophy of language, the philosophy of mind, metaphysics, philosophical logic, and aesthetics. His current research projects include the nature of truth and reference and the philosophical issues surrounding empty names, fiction, the imagination, and non-existence. In his current work he argues for anti-deflationist accounts of truth and reference that take a functional analysis of these phenomena as their starting point. He is also developing a new pretense theoretic account of our talk about existence and fiction which dispenses with the need to postulate fictional objects. His published work includes papers on Millianism, empty names, and the semantic paradoxes.

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