Paul M. Pietroski
Dept. of Philosophy
106 Somerset St. (5th
Floor)
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Here are links to some interviews that cover these topics, along with some slideshow talks, and a series of papers reporting on some experimental studies of how quantificational words like 'most' and 'every' are understood. For a sampler, see these videos.
I received
my B.A. from Rutgers College in 1986, did my graduate work at
MIT, and joined the department of philosophy at McGill
University in 1990. Causing Actions (OUP, 2000)
reflected my early interests in philosophy of mind and
philosophy of science. From 1998 to 2017, I taught in the
departments of linguistics and philosophy
at the University
of Maryland, where I am now a professor emeritus. By
moving Maryland to Rutgers, I went from the thirteenth Big Ten school to the fourteenth and returned to my alma
mater even though my college no longer existed. Seems
appropriate for a philosopher who thinks about language.
When time
permits, I spend a lot of it here,
sometimes doing other things.