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American philosopher

Robert Stainton
Robert James Harold Stainton

Born	1964 (age 60–61) Toronto
Nationality	Canadian
Awards	Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

Academic background
Alma mater	Glendon College of York University (BA 1987, HBA 1988) MIT (PhD 1993)
Thesis	Non-Sentential Assertions (1993)
Doctoral advisor	Sylvain Bromberger
Other advisors	Noam Chomsky, James Higginbotham
Academic work
Discipline	philosophy, linguistics
Institutions	University of Western Ontario

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Robert Stainton (born 1964) 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 (SSHRC) 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. (Paperback edition, with corrections: 2009.)
Knowledge and Mind. (With J. Andrew Brook). The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA: 2000. (Paperback edition: 2001.)
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. (Co-edited with Oliver Cresswell) Springer, Dordrecht: 2018.
Sourcebook in the History of Philosophy of Language: Primary Source Texts from the Pre-Socratics to Mill. (Co-edited with Margaret Cameron and Benjamin Hill). Springer, Dordrecht: 2017.
Linguistic Content: New Essays on the History of Philosophy of Language. (Co-edited with Margaret Cameron). Oxford University Press, Oxford: 2015.
Michael Gregory’s Proposals for a Communication Linguistics. (Co-edited with Jessica de Villiers). Editions du GREF, Toronto: 2009.
Compositionality, Context and Semantic Values: Essays in Honour of Ernie Lepore. (Co-edited with Christopher Viger) Springer, Dordrecht: 2009.
The Achilles of Rationalist Psychology. (Co-edited with Thomas M. Lennon). Springer, Dordrecht: 2008.
Ellipsis and Non-Sentential Speech. (Co-edited with Reinaldo Elugardo) Springer, Dordrecht: 2005.

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