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| '''Michael Devitt''' is an ] ] currently teaching at the ] in ]. | |||
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| '''Michael Devitt''' is an ] ] currently teaching at the ] in ]. His primary interests include ], ], ] and ]. His current work involves the philosophy of ], foundational issues in ], the semantics of ] and ], ], and ]. | |||
| He is a noted proponent of the ]. He claims that repeated groundings in an object can account for reference change. However, such a response leaves open the problem of cognitive significance that originally intrigued ] and ]. | |||
| Michael Devitt is also a defender of ], and along with ], defends this position against claims that it is self-refuting by invoking ] that avoid analysing ] like "x is true" as expressing a real property. They are construed, instead, as logical devices so that asserting that a sentence is true is just a quoted way of asserting the sentence itself. To say, "'God exists' is true" is just to say, "God exists". This way, Rey and Devitt argue, in so far as dispositional replacements of "claims" and deflationary accounts of "true" are coherent, eliminativism is not self-refuting.<ref>Devitt, M. & Rey, G. (1991). ''Transcending Transcendentalism'' in Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 72: 87-100.</ref> | |||
| Devitt is a known critic of ]. | |||
| === Education === | |||
| Devitt's ] (]–]) was at ] in ], where he completed 3 “A” Levels and 9 “O” Levels. He then studied at the ] in ] between ]–], taking his qualifying exam at the end of that time. | |||
| His ] began at the ] in ], where he studied philosophy and ]. He graduated in ] with First Class Honours and a University Medal in philosophy. He continued on as a post-graduate research student until ], when he moved to ] and studied under ]. He received his MA in ] and his PhD in ]. | |||
| === Academic Positions === | |||
| Following the completion of his coursework at Harvard, Michael Devitt returned to ] in ] and began his teaching career as a lecturer in the Philosophy department. He was made a senior lecturer in ] and Associate Professor in ], and by ] was named as Head of Department of Traditional and Modern Philosophy. He continued teaching at the University of Sydney until ], after which he returned to the ] and accepted an appointment of Professor of Philosophy at the ] in ]. He remained in ] until ], when he became a Professor (later Distinguished Professor) as well as acting as the Executive Officer of the Philosophy Program from ]–]. | |||
| In addition to his tenured or tenure-track positions, Michael Devitt has held numerous non-tenured positions at the ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], and ]. | |||
| === Publications === | |||
| * Designation. New York: Columbia University Press, 1981, xiii, 311 pp. | |||
| * Realism and Truth. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1984, ix, 250 pp. (Princeton: Princeton University Press). 2nd edn revised, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1991, xii, 327pp. Reprinted "with a new afterword," Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997, xii, 371pp. | |||
| * Coming to Our Senses: A Naturalistic Program for Semantic Localism. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996, x, 338pp. | |||
| * "Meanings Just Ain't in the Head." Method, Reason and Language: Essays in honour of Hilary Putnam, George Boolos, ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1990), pp. 79-104. Reprinted in Croatian in Filozofskim Istrazivanjima 45 (1992), pp. 425-45. | |||
| * "A Shocking Idea about Meaning." Revue Internationale de Philosophie, a special issue devoted to Hilary Putnam, in press. | |||
| * "The Metaphysics of Truth." In The Nature of Truth, Michael Lynch, ed. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (2001). | |||
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