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 Cavaliers’ 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
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, and for AY 2008-9 I am
a Mead Honored Faculty Awardee.
I am honored to sit on the International Advisory Board for the
journal Linguistic and Philosophical Investigations, published by the
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.
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.
Books:
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Self-Expression, Oxford University Press (U.K.), 2007. Also available on Oxford Scholarship Online. This book will be the subject of a
symposium in the journal Acta Analytica,
with comments by Dorit Bar-On, John Eriksson, Mike Martin, and Joe Moore, and
replies by me. |
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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. |
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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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“How
and What Can We Learn from Literature?” forthcoming 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. |
“How
Do Speech Acts Express Psychological States?,” in S. L.
Tsohatzidis (ed.) John Searle's Philosophy of
Language: Force, Meaning and Mind ( |
"Expression,
Indication and Showing What’s Within," Philosophical Studies
137 (2007): 389-98. |
"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:
•‘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.
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‘Rand, Art and Metaphysical Mirroring,’ invited presentation to the Objectivist Discussion Group, APA Eastern
Division, Philadelphia, December 28, 2008.
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‘Expressive Communication,’ invited presentation, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,
September 12, 2008.
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‘Semantic Compositionality As an
Empirical Hypothesis,’
Lima/Virginia Philosophical Encounter, Tarma, Peru, August, 2008.
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‘Learning from Fiction,’ invited presentation, Peruvian Society for Analytic Philosophy,
Lima, August 18, 2008.
• ‘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.
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‘Imperatives, Implicature, and Ross’s “Paradox,”’
American Philosophical Association, Pacific
Division, March, 2008.
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‘Illocutionary Norms,’ invited presentation, 10th International Pragmatics Conference, Goteborg,
Sweden, July 12, 2007.
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‘Stainton, Speech Acts, and Acts of
Speech,’
invited presentation, Canadian Philosophical
Association, Saskatoon, Canada, May 28, 2007.
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‘Privileged Access, Neo-expressivism,
and Qualia,’
invited presentation, Georgetown University, May
11, 2007.
• ‘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.
• ‘Rationality and the Unconscious’, invited
presentation, Singapore Management University, January 12, 2007.
• ‘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:
•A one-week mini-course on
‘Philosophical Dimensions of the Evolution of Language,’ to be held
at Sofia University, June 1-5.
•A plenary lecture at the Fifth
International Symposium on Cognition, Logic and Communication, Riga, Latvia,
August, 2009.
•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.
•A presentation at the Joint Session
of the Aristotelian Society, University College Dublin, July 2010.
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