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Details for Dr Anthony Everett
| Personal details | |
| Name | Dr Anthony Everett |
| Job title | Senior Lecturer |
| Department | Department of Philosophy University of Bristol |
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| Qualifications | B.A.(Cantab.), M.A.(Notre), Ph.D.(Stan.) |
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| Keywords | philosophy of language philosophy of mind metaphysics logic aesthetics Millianism empty names semantic paradoxes |
| Areas of expertise | I have a broad range of research interests within the philosophy of language, the philosophy of mind, metaphysics, philosophical logic, and aesthetics. My current research projects include the nature of truth and reference and the philosophical issues surrounding empty names, fiction, the imagination, and non-existence. In my current work I argue for anti-deflationist accounts of truth and reference that take a functional analysis of these phenomena as their starting point. I am also developing a new pretense theoretic account of our talk about existence and fiction which dispenses with the need to postulate fictional objects. My published work includes papers on Millianism, empty names, and the semantic paradoxes. |