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Cian Dorr, Associate Professor

Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language

PhD, Princeton, 2002

Cian Dorr is associate professor of philosophy. Before coming to the University of Pittsburgh in 2003, he taught at N.Y.U. His areas of specialization are metaphysics and philosophy of language. He is also interested in philosophy of mind, epistemology, metaethics, and Hume.

Select Publications

‘What We Disagree About When We Disagree About Ontology’ In Fictionalist Approaches to Metaphysics, ed. Mark Kalderon (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005)

‘Non-symmetric Relations’ In Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, vol. 1, ed. Dean Zimmerman (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004): 155-192.

‘Vagueness Without Ignorance’ In Philosophical Perspectives 17: Language and Philosophical Linguistics, ed. John Hawthorne and Dean Zimmerman (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003): 83-113.

‘Non-cognitivism and Wishful Thinking’ Noûs 36 (2002): 97-103.

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Carnap's record of the Vienna Circle members' votes about certain important philosophical propositions and how their positions were changed after reading the Tractatus of Wittgenstein. open [+]

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