Dr Nat Hansen
Responsibilities
- Part 3 Coordinator
- Visiting Speaker Co-Coordinator
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Language (contextualism, experimental semantics and pragmatics, the meaning of color terms)
Undergraduate Modules Frequently Taught:
Part Three:
- Speech Attacks: Bullshit, Lying, Propaganda
- Colour
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.
In 2016-2017, he was an external faculty fellow at Stanford University's Humanities Center, and in 2018 he was a visiting scholar at Stanford's Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI).
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.
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: 23.
2020
- Borg, E., Fisher, S. A., Hansen, N., Scarafone, A. and Shardimgaliev, M. (2020) Applied Philosophy of Language. Ratio. Wiley. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/rati.12269
- Hansen, N. (2020) "Nobody would really talk that way!": the critical project in contemporary ordinary language philosophy. Synthese, 197 (6). pp. 2433-2464. ISSN 1573-0964 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-018-1812-x
- Adams, Z. and Hansen, N. (2020) The myth of the common-sense conception of colour. In: Marques, T. and Wikforss, Å. (eds.) Shifting Concepts: The Philosophy and Psychology of Conceptual Variability. Oxford University Press, pp. 106-127. ISBN 9780198803331 (In Press)
2019
- Hansen, N. (2019) Metalinguistic proposals. Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy. ISSN 1502-3923 doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2019.1658628
- Hansen, N., Porter, J. D. and Francis, K. (2019) A corpus study of 'know': on the verification of philosophers' frequency claims about language. Episteme. ISSN 1750-0117 doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/epi.2019.15
- Francis, K., Beaman, P. and Hansen, N. (2019) Stakes, Scales, and Skepticism. Ergo. ISSN 2330-4014 (In Press)
- Francis, K., Hansen, N. and Beaman, P., (2019) Open and online experimental philosophy. Open Research Case Studies. Report. University of Reading
- Grindrod, J., Andow, J. and Hansen, N. (2019) Third-person knowledge ascriptions: a crucial experiment for contextualism. Mind and Language, 34 (2). pp. 158-182. ISSN 1468-0017 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/mila.12196
- Borg, E., Salomons, T. and Hansen, N. (2019) The meaning of pain expressions and pain communication. In: van Rysewyk, S. (ed.) Meanings of Pain. Springer, pp. 261-282. ISBN 9783030241537 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24154-4_14
2018
- Hansen, N. (2018) Just what is it that makes Travis's examples so different, so appealing? In: The Philosophy of Charles Travis: Language, Thought, and Perception. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198783916
2017
- Hansen, N. (2017) Color comparisons and interpersonal variation. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 8 (4). pp. 809-826. ISSN 1878-5158 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-016-0323-2
- Hansen, N. and Chemla, E. (2017) Color adjectives, standards, and thresholds: an experimental investigation. Linguistics and Philosophy, 40 (3). pp. 239-278. ISSN 1573-0549 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-016-9202-7
- Hansen, N. (2017) A new argument from interpersonal variation to subjectivism about color: a response to Gómez-Torrente. Noûs, 51 (2). pp. 421-428. ISSN 1468-0068 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/nous.12103
- Hansen, N. (2017) Must we measure what we mean? Inquiry, 60 (8). pp. 785-815. ISSN 1502-3923 doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2017.1310669
2015
- Hansen, N. and Chemla, E. (2015) Linguistic experiments and ordinary language philosophy. Ratio, 28 (4). pp. 422-445. ISSN 1467-9329 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/rati.12112
- Hansen, N. (2015) Experimental philosophy of language. In: Oxford Handbooks Online. Oxford University Press. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935314.013.53
2014
- Hansen, N. (2014) Contemporary ordinary language philosophy. Philosophy compass, 9 (8). pp. 556-569. ISSN 1747-9991 doi: https://doi.org/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: https://doi.org/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: https://doi.org/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: https://doi.org/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: https://doi.org/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: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-011-9099-0