Assistant Professor

Office: 2281 Social Science and Humanities

Phone: (530) 752-4306

E-mail: bsjackson@ucdavis.edu

Ph.D: Cornell University, 2005

Dissertation: "Species of Meanings: A Study of Semantic Kinds," directed by Zoltán Szabó

Areas of Specialization: Philosophy of language, metaphysics

Joined the UC Davis Philosophy Faculty: 2006

2008-2009 Course Schedule

Fall
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Winter
17 Introduction to Philosophy of Language

Spring
1 Introduction to Philosophy
137B Philosophy of Language: Theory of Reference
137C Philosophy of Language: Semantics and Pragmatics

Other Courses
112 Intermediate Logic
189J Topics in Philosophy of Language
237 Philosophy of Language Seminar

Recent Publications

"Beyond Logical Form," forthcoming in Philosophical Studies

"Truth vs. Pretense in Discourse About Motion (or why the sun really does rise)," forthcoming in Noûs

Currently Supervising Dissertations

None