Stephen Schiffer

Stephen Schiffer is an American philosopher and currently Silver Professor of Philosophy at New York University. He is a specialist in the philosophy of language.

Education and career

Schiffer was awarded a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania in 1962 and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Oxford University in 1970. He taught at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Arizona, and the Graduate Center of the [City University of New York] before moving to the New [York University Department of Philosophy]. He was elected a fellow of the American [Academy of Arts and Sciences] in 2007.

Philosophical work

He has specialized in the philosophy of language, and is the author of three significant works concerning semantic meaning: Meaning, Remnants of Meaning, and The Things We Mean.