Mark McCullagh

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Professor College of Arts Department of Philosophy Guelph, Ontario mmcculla@uoguelph.ca Office: (519) 824-4120 ext. 53221

Bio/Research

Much of Dr. McCullagh's work concerns an epistemological question: What is it to understand a word — to “possess the concept” it expresses? McCullagh's view is that the sort of understanding you need to have, in order to do something with a word, depends on what you want to do with it — what type...

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Bio/Research

Much of Dr. McCullagh's work concerns an epistemological question: What is it to understand a word — to “possess the concept” it expresses? McCullagh's view is that the sort of understanding you need to have, in order to do something with a word, depends on what you want to do with it — what type of speech act you’re trying to perform, or what sort of sentence you’re using the word in. So there’s really no answer to the epistemological question, put that baldly. But there are illuminating things to be said about the relations among different kinds of understanding.

Recently McCullagh has examined these questions as they show up in theories of quotation and in theories of concept possession.


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