Robert Stainton
Robert Stainton is a Canadian philosopher/linguist and Distinguished University Professor at the University of Western Ontario. He is known for his works on the philosophy of language, cognitive science/philosophy of the mind, analytic metaphysics/philosophical logic, semantics and pragmatics. He is currently leading a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight Grant-funded project on The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Languages with Christopher Viger. He is also “a fanatical carp fisher,” as he told Outdoor Canada.
Selected publications
- Words and Thoughts. Oxford University Press, Oxford: 2006.
- Knowledge and Mind.. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA: 2000.
- Philosophical Perspectives on Language. Broadview Press, Peterborough, ON: 1996.
- Discourse, Structure and Linguistic Choice: The Theory and Applications of Molecular Sememics by T. Price Caldwell. Springer, Dordrecht: 2018.
- Sourcebook in the History of Philosophy of Language: Primary Source Texts from the Pre-Socratics to Mill.. Springer, Dordrecht: 2017.
- Linguistic Content: New Essays on the History of Philosophy of Language.. Oxford University Press, Oxford: 2015.
- Michael Gregory’s Proposals for a Communication Linguistics.. Editions du GREF, Toronto: 2009.
- Compositionality, Context and Semantic Values: Essays in Honour of Ernie Lepore. Springer, Dordrecht: 2009.
- The Achilles of Rationalist Psychology.. Springer, Dordrecht: 2008.
- Ellipsis and Non-Sentential Speech. Springer, Dordrecht: 2005.