Dr Nat Hansen
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+44 (0) 118 378 6993
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Associate Professor
- Assessment Director
Areas of interest
Philosophy of Language (contextualism, experimental semantics and pragmatics, ordinary language philosophy, the meaning of color terms), aesthetics
Postgraduate 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, and aesthetic conversation and aesthetic judgment.
Teaching
Undergraduate
- Speech Attacks: Bullshit, Lies, Propaganda
- Philosophy of Language
Research centres and groups
Background
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, in 2018 he was a visiting scholar at Stanford's Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI), and in summers 2021–2023 he was a Humboldt Research Fellow in Berlin.
Websites/blogs
Please view my personal website