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 Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Virginia.  I have held fellowships from the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the National Humanities Center, 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.  Click here for my curriculum vitae.

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 Romanian Academy and Cartea Universitara Press, and edited with support of the Theoretical Linguistics Society of Romania.  Click here for pdf copies of recent issues of this journal.

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. 

 

 

Some of my representative publications:

Books:

Self-Expression, Oxford University Press (U.K.), 2007.  Also available on Oxford Scholarship Online.

 

Moore's Paradox: Essays on Belief, Rationality and the First Person, edited by myself and John Williams.  Contributors include Jonathan Adler and Bradley Armour-Garb, Jay Atlas, Tom Baldwin, Claudio de Almeida, Andre Gallois, Robert Gordon, Mitchell Green, Alan Hajek, Roy Sorensen, and John Williams.  Oxford University Press (U.K.), 2007.

 

Engaging Philosophy: A Brief Introduction (2006, Hackett Publishing).  Also available as an e-book at e-books.com.

 

 

Articles:

“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," forthcoming in Mind and Language, vol. 24 (April, 2009).

"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 (Cambridge, 2007): 267-84.

 

"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.

 

“Speech Acts,” in the Stanford Online Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2007).

 

"Moorean Absurdity and Showing What's Within," in Moore's Paradox (2007): 189-214.  

 

"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.

 

"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.)

 

"Grice's Frown: On Meaning and Expression", in G. Meggle and C. Plunze (eds.) Saying, Meaning, Implicating (University of Leipzig Press, 2003): 100-119.

 

"The Inferential Significance of Frege's Assertion Sign," Facta Philosophica Vol. 4, No. 2 (2002): 201-229.

 

"The Status of Supposition," Nous Vol. 34 (2000): 376-399.

 

"Illocutionary Force and Semantic Content," Linguistics and Philosophy Vol. 23 (2000): 435-473.

 

"Attitude Ascription's Affinity to Measurement", International Journal of Philosophical Studies, vol. 7 (1999), pp. 323-348.

 

"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.

 

"Direct Reference and Implicature," Philosophical Studies Vol. 91 (July, 1998), pp. 61-90.

 

"Illocutions, Implicata, and What a Conversation Requires," Pragmatics and Cognition Vol. 7 (1999), pp. 65-91.

 

"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).

 

"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).

 

"Quantity, Volubility, and Some Varieties of Discourse," Linguistics and Philosophy, vol. 18 (1995), pp. 83-112.

 

"Reflections on Reflection: Van Fraassen on Belief," (with C. Hitchcock) Synthese, vol. 98 (1994), pp. 297-324.

 

 

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.   

 

 

 

 

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