Mitchell S. Green
120 Cocke Hall, University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400780, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4780.
(434) 924-6922; msg6m
at virginia dot edu
I am a
Professor of Philosophy at the University of Virginia. I have held
fellowships and/or grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the
National Science Foundation, the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the Virginia
Foundation for the Humanities, the National
Humanities
Center,
the American Philosophical Association, The Institute for Advanced Technology
in the Humanities, The Mead Endowment, the Squire Family Foundation, the
University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Philosophy of Science, the Center
for Contemplative Mind in Society, the American Council of Learned Societies,
the University
of Virginia’s
Teaching
Resource
Center,
and the University
of Virginia’s
Shannon
Center
for Advanced Studies.
My
specializations are in Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, and
Aesthetics. I am also interested in the Philosophy of Biology, 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.
My current
research interests include the evolutionary biology of communication, speech acts
and their role in conversation, empathy, self-knowledge, self-expression, attitude ascription, and the epistemic
value(s) of works of art. Click here for my curriculum vitae.
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.
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I am a co-organizer (with Dorit
Bar-On, UNC) of the Protolanguage
Workshop, to be held March 30-1, 2012, at the University of
Virginia.
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I direct the High-Phi Project,
which supports philosophical inquiry in America’s high schools. This Project includes an NEH-sponsored
Philosophy Institute for high school teachers, an annual essay contest, and
an undergraduate internship course.
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I am working with the Institute
for Advanced Technology in the Humanities to develop Socratic Method Online, which enables users
to explore philosophical problems in a dialectical online environment, and
which is covered in a recent Time article.
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Books:
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Self-Expression, Oxford
University Press (U.K.), 2007.
Also available on Oxford Scholarship Online. Reviews may be found in the British Journal of Aesthetics, the Philosophical Quarterly, Metapsychology, Mind,
the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, and Analytic Philosophy.
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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.
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Public Fora:
Articles:
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‘Perceiving Emotions,’
in the Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume,
vol. 89 (2010), pp. 45-61.
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‘Précis of Self-Expression,’ and
‘Replies to Eriksson, Martin and Moore,’ both in a special issue
of Acta
Analytica (vol. 25) containing a symposium on Self-Expression (2010).
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‘Language Understanding and Knowledge of Meaning,’
in The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic
and Communication, Volume V (2010), pp. 1-17.
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‘Lionspeak: Expression,
Meaning and Communication,’ with Dorit Bar-On, in E. Rubenstein (ed.) Self, Language and World (Ridgeview, 2010), pp. 89-106.
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‘Showing and Meaning: How
We Make Our Ideas Clear,’ in Meaning and Analysis: New Essays on H.P. Grice,
edited by Klaus Petrus (Palgrave MacMillan, 2010).
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‘Moore’s Paradox,
Truth and Accuracy: A Reply to Lawlor and Perry’ (with J.
Williams) Acta Analytica, vol. 26 (2011): pp. 243-55.
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“How and What Can We Learn
from Fiction?” in Hagberg and Jost (eds.) The Blackwell Companion to the Philosophy of Literature
(2010), pp. 350-66.
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"Speech Acts, the Handicap
Principle and the Expression of Psychological States," Mind and Language, vol. 24 (April, 2009):
139-63.
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"Empathy,
Expression, and What Artworks Have to Teach," in G. Hagberg
(ed.) Art and Ethical Criticism (Blackwell,
2008): 95-122.
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"Expression, Indication and Showing What’s Within,"
Philosophical Studies 137 (2008): 389-98.
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“How Do Speech Acts Express Psychological States?,”
in Tsohatzidis (ed.) John Searle's Philosophy of Language:
Force, Meaning and Mind (Cambridge,
2007): 267-84.
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"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).
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"Moorean
Absurdity and Showing What's Within,"
in Moore's Paradox (2007):
189-214.
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"Introduction,"
with John Williams, in Moore's Paradox (2007): 3-35.
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"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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"Intention
and Authenticity in Facial Expressions of Pain", in Behavioral
and Brain Sciences 24 (2003): 460-1. (Click here for the full text
of the BBS symposium in which this is a peer commentary.)
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"Grice's
Frown: On Meaning and Expression", in G. Meggle and C. Plunze (eds.)
Saying, Meaning, Implicating (University of Leipzig Press, 2003):
100-119.
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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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"The
Status of Supposition," Nous Vol. 34 (2000): 376-399.
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"Illocutionary
Force and Semantic Content," Linguistics
and Philosophy Vol. 23 (2000): 435-473.
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"Attitude
Ascription's Affinity to Measurement", International
Journal of Philosophical Studies, vol. 7 (1999), pp. 323-348.
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"Moore's
Many Paradoxes," Philosophical Papers Vol. 28 (1999):
97-109.
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"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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"Illocutions,
Implicata, and What a Conversation Requires," Pragmatics and
Cognition Vol. 7 (1999), pp. 65-91.
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"Symmetry
Arguments for Cooperation in the Prisoners' Dilemma" (with C. Bicchieri)
in Contemporary Action Theory: The Philosophy and Logic of Social Action
(Kluwer, 1997, pp. 229-49). Reprinted in R. Jeffrey, B. Skyrms, and C.
Bicchieri (eds.) The
Logic of Strategy (Oxford, 1999).
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"Indeterminism
and the Thin Red Line," (with N. Belnap) in Philosophical Perspectives
8: Logic and Language (1994), pp. 365-388. Reprinted in Facing
the Future (Oxford University Press, 2001).
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"Quantity,
Volubility, and Some Varieties of Discourse," Linguistics and
Philosophy, vol. 18 (1995), pp. 83-112.
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"Reflections
on Reflection: Van Fraassen on Belief," (with C. Hitchcock) Synthese,
vol. 98 (1994), pp. 297-324.
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Book
Reviews:
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Review
of G. Currie, Narratives and Narrators:
A Philosophy of Stories (OUP,
2010), co-authored with Corin Fox, in Analysis
Reviews (2011).
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Review
of N. Zangwill, Aesthetic Creation
(Oxford, 2007), Analysis Reviews, vol.
69 (2009): 399-401.
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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.
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Review
of Michael Beaney,
Frege Making Sense (Duckworth, 1996), Mind, vol. 108 (1999):
567-70.
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Review
of Michael Dummett, Origins of Analytic Philosophy (Harvard, 1994), The
Philosophical Review, vol. 104 (1995), pp. 613-615.
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Encyclopedia
Entries and Bibliographies:
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‘Pragmatics,
An Annotated Bibliography’, Oxford Bibliographies Online,
2011.
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‘Speech
Acts,’ in O’Connor (ed.) A Companion to the Philosophy of Action
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2010).
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‘Saul Kripke,’ in E. Lepore (ed.)
The
Thoemmes Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers (2005).
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‘Assertion,’
in the Elsevier
Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics,
2nd Ed. (2005).
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‘Imperative
Logic’ , in E. Craig (ed.) The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(1997).
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‘Truthtelling’
, in E. Freeman and P. Werhane (eds.) The
Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Business Ethics, 2nd Ed.
(1997).
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Some
Recent Talks, Lectures,
and Workshops:
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‘Organic Meaning,’ keynote address to the North Carolina Undergraduate
Philosophy Conference, UNC, April, 2011, Northwestern University (September,
2011), and the University of Wisconsin,
Milwaukee (September, 2011).
•‘Literary
Cognitivism Meets Social Psychology,’ University of Potsdam, June, 2011,
and University of London, June, 2011.
•’Metaphysics
in the Pre-college Classroom,’ PLATO Conference on Pre-College
Philosophy, Columbia University, June, 2011.
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‘Expressive Communication and the Origins of Meaning,’ (with D.
Bar-On) University of London, March, 2011.
•’Knowing
That Reduces to Knowing How,’ Georgia State University, October, 2010;
University of Virginia, October, 2010; and Northwestern University, November,
2010.
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‘Evolutionary Game Theory and the Origins of Meaning: Comments on
Skyrms,’ at the Northwestern Language Evolution Workshop, September,
2010.
•’Perceiving
Emotions,’ Department of Philosophy, Florida State University, April 2,
2010, and at the Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society, University College
Dublin, July 2010.
•’Wags,
Bows and Communicative Stability,’ a presentation at the Workshop on
Dogs, Humans and Other Animals, Berkeley, June, 2010.
•Facilitator
and Lead Speaker, “Philosophy Fridays”, a series of
discussions held from March through
June, 2010, sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution.
•‘Knowledge-That
Reduces to Knowledge-How!,’ Society for Exact Philosophy, Kansas City,
MO, March, 2010, and Georgia State University, October, 2010.
•’Depicting
and Speaker-Meaning,’ at the Workshop on Pictorial Representation and
Meaning, National University of Singapore, January, 2010.
•’Comments
on Vranas and Imperative Inference,’ American Philosophical Association
Central Division, February, 2010.
•’Comments
on 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, Sofia,
Bulgaria, June 1-5, 2009.
•‘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.
Some
Upcoming Talks, Lectures, and Workshops:
•’Organic
Meaning,’ University of Pennsylvania (October, 2011).
•’Philosophy
in High Schools,’ at the Philosophical Horizons Workshop, University of
Memphis, September 10, 2011.
•Director,
NEH Summer Seminar in Philosophy for High School Teachers, University of Virginia,
July, 2011.
•’Philosophy for
High Schools,’ at the Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium, Public
Issues Forum, October 29, 2011.
•Symposium
on Implicature (with Wayne Davis and Ernie Lepore), Central APA, Chicago,
February, 2012.
•Commentator
in an Author Meets Critics session on Korsmeyer’s Savoring Disgust, Pacific APA, Seattle, April, 2012.
•A
Workshop on “Proto-Language”, University of Virginia, March 30-1,,
2012, co-organized with Dorit Bar-On.
•Keynote
Address to the 2nd Annual Stephen Weber Graduate Student Conference,
San Diego State University, spring, 2012.
•Two
Presentations on Implicature, Stanford University, May, 2012.
Distractions:
