Christopher Gauker


Christopher Gauker is an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Salzburg. He is known for his works on philosophy of language.

Life

Gauker grew up in Bloomington, Minnesota and attended the University of Chicago, where Donald Davidson directed his bachelor's thesis. He received his doctoral degree from the University of Pittsburgh, where Wilfrid Sellars directed his dissertation. Before coming to Salzburg, he was a professor at the University of Cincinnati.

Books

Words and Images: An Essay on the Origin of Ideas, Oxford University Press, 2011Conditionals in Context, MIT Press, 2005Words without Meaning, MIT Press, 2003Thinking Out Loud: An Essay on the Relation between Thought and Language, Princeton University Press, 1994