Mitchell S.
Green
Department of Philosophy, 104 Cocke Hall, University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400780, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4780.
(434) 924-6922; msg6m
at virginia dot edu
I am the
NEH/Horace Goldsmith Distinguished Teaching Professor of Philosophy in the Department
of Philosophy at the University of Virginia. I have held
fellowships from the Andrew Mellon Foundation, The Virginia Foundation for the
Humanities, the
My
specializations are in Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, and
Aesthetics. I am also interested in Metaphysics, Decision Theory, the Theory of
Action, and the history of analytic philosophy. I have advised dissertations on
the Philosophy of Language and Aesthetics, and, master's theses in the
Philosophy of Law, Epistemology, Aesthetics, Philosophy of Mind, and Philosophy
of Language. I regularly teach courses of interest to students in Cognitive
Science and in Linguistics, and I sit on U.Va.'s Linguistics
Committee. I have supervised various Undergraduate Honors/Distinguished Majors Theses,
Master's Theses,
and Dissertations.
I am faculty advisor to the Jefferson Literary and Debating Society.
Click here for my curriculum
vitae.
My current
research interests include the evolutionary biology of communication, speech acts
and their role in conversation, empathy, self-knowledge, self-expression, and
attitude ascription.
Projects:
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For 2009-2012 I am a Co-PI (with
Dorit Bar-On, UNC) on Grant #0925975 from the
National Science Foundation in support of the project: Expression,
Communication and the Origins of Meaning. |
I am a co-organizer for ”Lies We
Can Believe In,”
a workshop at the University of Virginia, March 26-27, co-organized
with Eve Danzinger (Anthropology) and Angeline Lillard (Psychology |
For 2009-12 I am directing the Hi-Phi Project, which explores incorporating
philosophical pedagogy into Virginia high schools. |
I am a panelist on AskPhilosophers.org,
where anyone can post questions for a panel of about thirty professional
philosophers on any topic in philosophy. |
Books:
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Self-Expression, Oxford
University Press (U.K.), 2007.
Also available on Oxford Scholarship Online. A review in the British Journal of Aesthetics may be found here, and
another in the Philosophical Quarterly
is here. |
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Moore's Paradox: New Essays on Belief, Rationality and
the First Person, edited by myself and John
Williams, Oxford University Press (U.K.), 2007. A review in Notre Dame Phil. Reviews may be found here. |
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Engaging Philosophy: A Brief Introduction (2006, Hackett
Publishing). Also
available as an e-book at e-books.com. |
Articles:
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‘Perceiving Emotions,’
forthcoming in the Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume,
2010. |
‘Précis of Self-Expression,’ and
‘Replies to Eriksson, Martin and Moore,’ forthcoming in an issue
of Acta
Analytica containing a symposium on Self-Expression, 2010. |
‘Language Understanding and
Knowledge of Meaning,’ forthcoming in The
Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication,
Volume IV. |
‘Lionspeak: Expression,
Meaning and Communication,’ with Dorit Bar-On, forthcoming in E.
Rubenstein (ed.) Self, Language and
World (Ridgeview). |
‘Showing and Meaning: How
We Make Our Ideas Clear,’ to appear in Meaning and Analysis: Themes from H.P. Grice,
edited by Klaus Petrus (Palgrave MacMillan, 2010). |
‘Moore’s Paradox, Truth
and Accuracy: A Reply to Lawlor and Perry’ (with J. Williams) to appear
in Acta Analytica. |
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“How and What Can We Learn
from Literature?” in Hagberg and Jost (eds.) The Blackwell Companion to the Philosophy of Literature. |
"Speech Acts, the Handicap
Principle and the Expression of Psychological States," Mind and Language, vol. 24 (April, 2009):
139-63. |
"Empathy, Expression, and
What Artworks Have to Teach," in G. Hagberg (ed.) Art and Ethical Criticism (Blackwell,
2008): 95-122. |
"Expression, Indication and Showing What’s Within,"
Philosophical Studies 137 (2008): 389-98. |
“How Do Speech Acts Express Psychological States?,”
in Tsohatzidis (ed.) John Searle's Philosophy of Language: Force, Meaning and Mind ( |
"Direct Reference, Empty Names, and Implicature,"
Canadian Journal of Philosophy 37 (2007): 419-37. |
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“Speech Acts,” in the Stanford Online Encyclopedia
of Philosophy (2007). |
"Moorean Absurdity and Showing What's
Within," in |
"Introduction,"
with John Williams, in Moore's Paradox (2007): 3-35. |
"You
Don’t See With Your Eyes, You Perceive With Your Mind," in D.
Darby and T. Shelby (eds.) Hip Hop and Philosophy, with a preface by
Cornel West (Open Court, 2005): 27-37. |
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"The Inferential Significance of Frege's Assertion
Sign," Facta Philosophica Vol. 4, No. 2 (2002):
201-229. |
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"Illocutionary
Force and Semantic Content," Linguistics
and Philosophy Vol. 23 (2000): 435-473. |
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"Moore's
Many Paradoxes," Philosophical Papers Vol. 28 (1999):
97-109. |
"On
the Autonomy of Linguistic Meaning," Mind Vol. 106 (April,
1997), pp. 217-244. |
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"Direct
Reference and Implicature," Philosophical Studies Vol. 91
(July, 1998), pp. 61-90. |
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Book
Reviews:
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Review of N. Zangwill, Aesthetic Creation (Oxford, 2007), Analysis, vol. 69 (2009): 399-401. |
Review of W. Davis, Implicature:
Intention, Convention, and Principle in the Failure of Gricean Theory
(Cambridge, 1998), Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol. 65
(2002): 241-4. |
Review of Michael Beaney, Frege
Making Sense (Duckworth, 1996), Mind, vol. 108 (1999): 567-70. |
Review of Michael Dummett, Origins of
Analytic Philosophy (Harvard, 1994), The Philosophical Review,
vol. 104 (1995), pp. 613-615. |
Encyclopedia
Entries:
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‘Speech Acts,’
forthcoming in O’Connor (ed.) A Companion to the
Philosophy of Action (Wiley-Blackwell). |
‘Saul
Kripke,’ in E. Lepore (ed.) The Thoemmes Dictionary of Major American
Philosophers (2005). |
‘Assertion,’ in the Elsevier
Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd Ed. (2005). |
‘Imperative Logic’ , in E. Craig (ed.) The
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (1997). |
‘Truthtelling’
, in E. Freeman and P. Werhane (eds.) The Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Business
Ethics, 2nd Ed. (1997). |
Some
Recent Talks:
•A commentator (responding to Liz Camp and Mark Richard) at
a symposium on ‘Affective Language and Truth-Conditional
Semantics,’ Eastern APA, New York, December, 2009.
•’Norms of Assertion: A Perspective from Evolutionary
Game Theory,’ a presentation to the Workshop on Assertion and Sincerity,
Sheffield University, December, 2009.
•’Evolutionary Game Theory Meets the Evolution of
Language,’ Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, December,
2009.
•’The Evolution of Language: Some Constraints On a
Theory,’ Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, October 27, 2009.
•’Evolutionary Biology and the Philosophy of
Language,’ Washington University in St. Louis, September 17, 2009.
•’Language
Understanding and Knowledge of Meaning,’ University of Missouri in St.
Louis, September 18, 2009; and as a plenary lecture at the Meaning,
Understanding and Knowledge Conference, Riga, Latvia, August, 2009.
•‘Philosophical Dimensions of the Evolution of
Language,’ Sofia University, June 1-5.
•‘Replies to Bar-On and Martin,’ part
of an Author Meets Critics session for Self-Expression, with
comments from Dorit Bar-On (UNC), and Michael Martin (Berkeley/UCL), APA
Central Division, Chicago, February, 2009.
• ‘Rand, Art and Metaphysical
Mirroring,’ invited presentation to the Objectivist Discussion Group, APA
Eastern Division, Philadelphia, December 28, 2008.
• ‘Expressive Communication,’ invited presentation, University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill, September 12, 2008.
• ‘Semantic Compositionality As an
Empirical Hypothesis,’ Lima/Virginia
Philosophical Encounter, Tarma, Peru, August, 2008.
• ‘Learning from Fiction,’ invited presentation, Peruvian
Society for Analytic Philosophy, Lima, August 18, 2008.
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‘Brute Force: The Strategic Origins of Meaning and Speech Acts’, invited presentation, Arizona State
University, October 3, 2008.
---invited
presentation, Varna International Philosophical Conference, Varna, Bulgaria,
June 2, 2008.
---invited presentation, Northwestern
University Phil/Linguistics Working Group, December 7, 2007.
• ‘Imperatives, Implicature, and Ross’s “Paradox,”’ American
Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, March, 2008.
• ‘Illocutionary Norms,’ invited presentation, 10th International Pragmatics Conference, Goteborg,
Sweden, July 12, 2007.
• ‘Stainton, Speech Acts, and Acts of
Speech,’ invited
presentation, Canadian Philosophical Association, Saskatoon, Canada, May 28,
2007.
• ‘Privileged Access,
Neo-expressivism, and Qualia,’ invited
presentation, Georgetown University, May 11, 2007.
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‘Animal and Human Communication: Bridging the Gap,’
—invited
presentation, Singapore Management University, January 5, 2007,
—invited presentation, National University of Singapore,
January 16, 2007.
—invited presentation, Reunions Seminars, University of
Virginia, June 2, 2007.
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‘Rationality and the Unconscious’, invited presentation, Singapore
Management University, January 12, 2007.
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‘How Speech Acts Express Psychological States’
—competitive
submission, Gesellschaft für Analytische Philosophie, VI, Berlin,
September 13, 2006.
—invited
presentation, Department of Philosophy, Western Michigan University, October
19, 2006.
—invited
presentation, Virginia Philosophical Association, Richmond, VA, October 27,
2006.
—invited
presentation, Department of Philosophy, University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill, November 3, 2006.
—invited presentation, Department of Philosophy,
Northwestern University, November 17, 2006.
—invited presentation, Department of Philosophy, Virginia
Tech, December 1, 2006.
—invited presentation, Singapore Management University,
January 19, 2007.
Some
Upcoming Talks/Lectures/Workshops:
•’Depicting and Speaker-Meaning,’ to be
presented at the Workshop on Pictorial Representation and Meaning, National
University of Singapore, January 15-6, 2010.
•’Comments on Vranas and Imperative Inference,’
American Philosophical Association Central Division, February, 2010.
•Facilitator and Lead Speaker, “Philosophy
Fridays”, a series of discussions—all free and open to the
public--about philosophy, to be held on the second Friday of March, April, May
and June, organized and sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution. Location TBA.
•‘Knowledge-That Reduces to Knowledge-How!,’
Society for Exact Philosophy, Kansas City, MO, March, 2010.
•A presentation to the Department of Philosophy, Florida
State University, March, 2010.
•”Lies We Can Believe In,” a workshop at the University of
Virginia, March 26-27, co-organized with Eve Danzinger (Anthropology) and
Angeline Lillard (Psychology).
•The Hi-Phi (High School Philosophy) Workshop, April 17,
2010, co-organized with Bryan Cwik.
•A presentation at the Workshop on Dogs, Humans and Other
Animals, Berkeley, June, 2010.
•’Perceiving
Emotions,’ to be presented at the Joint Session of the
Aristotelian Society, University College Dublin, July 2010.
•The Evolution of Language
Workshop, Northwestern University, September, 2010, co-organized with Brady
Clark (Linguistics, Northwestern).
Distractions:
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