Staff Profile:Dr Nat Hansen

Responsibilities:

In 2016-17, Hansen will be a Visiting Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center, in the USA.

Areas of Interest:

Philosophy of Language (contextualism, experimental semantics and pragmatics, the meaning of color terms)

Undergraduate Modules Frequently Taught:

Part One: Reason and Argument
Part Three: Philosophy of Language 

Nat received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 2010 and has held postdoctoral research fellowships at Umeå University in Sweden and at the Institut Jean-Nicod in Paris. His research concerns the intersection of philosophy of language, linguistics and psychology, with a focus on experimental evidence for semantic and pragmatic theories, the nature of context sensitivity, and the meaning of color terms.

PhD supervision

I am happy to supervise doctoral research in any of the following areas: any topic in philosophy of language (especially contextualism), contextualism in epistemology, the role of experiments in philosophy and semantics and pragmatics, the philosophy of J.L. Austin and ordinary language philosophy.

Please view my personal website here

Research groups / Centres:

Nat is a member of the Centre for Cognition Research at the University of Reading.

Publications:

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Number of items: 13.

2017

• Hansen, N. (2017) Must we measure what we mean? Inquiry. pp. 1-31. ISSN 1502-3923 doi: 10.1080/0020174X.2017.1310669
• Hansen, N. and Chemla, E. (2017) Color adjectives, standards, and thresholds: an experimental investigation. Linguistics and Philosophy. ISSN 1573-0549 doi: 10.1007/s10988-016-9202-7

2016

• Hansen, N. (2016) Color comparisons and interpersonal variation. Review of Philosophy and Psychology. ISSN 1878-5158 doi: 10.1007/s13164-016-0323-2

2015

• Hansen, N. and Chemla, E. (2015) Linguistic experiments and ordinary language philosophy. Ratio, 28 (4). pp. 422-445. ISSN 1467-9329 doi: 10.1111/rati.12112
• Hansen, N. (2015) Experimental philosophy of language. In: Oxford Handbooks Online. Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935314.013.53
• Hansen, N. (2015) A new argument from interpersonal variation to subjectivism about color: a response to Gómez-Torrente. Noûs. ISSN 1468-0068 doi: 10.1111/nous.12103

2014

• Hansen, N. (2014) Contemporary ordinary language philosophy. Philosophy compass, 9 (8). pp. 556-569. ISSN 1747-9991 doi: 10.1111/phc3.12152
• Hansen, N. (2014) Contrasting cases. In: Beebe, J. R. (ed.) Advances in experimental epistemology. Bloomsbury, London, pp. 71-95. ISBN 9781472505316

2013

• Hansen, N. and Chemla, E. (2013) Experimenting on contextualism. Mind and Language, 28 (3). pp. 286-321. ISSN 1468-0017 doi: 10.1111/mila.12019
• Hansen, N. (2013) A slugfest of intuitions: contextualism and experimental design. Synthese, 190 (10). pp. 1771-1792. ISSN 1573-0964 doi: 10.1007/s11229-013-0261-9

2012

• Hansen, N. (2012) On an alleged truth/falsity asymmetry in context shifting experiments. Philosophical Quarterly, 62 (248). pp. 530-545. ISSN 1467-9213 doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9213.2012.00059.x
• Hansen, N. (2012) J. L. Austin and literal meaning. European Journal of Philosophy, 22 (4). pp. 617-632. ISSN 1468-0378 doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0378.2011.00510.x

2011

• Hansen, N. (2011) Color adjectives and radical contextualism. Linguistics and Philosophy, 34 (3). pp. 201-221. ISSN 1573-0549 doi: 10.1007/s10988-011-9099-0

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