Robert Stainton (born 1964) is a Canadian philosopher/linguist and Distinguished University Professor at the University of Western Ontario. He is known for his works on the philosophy of language, cognitive science/philosophy of the mind, analytic metaphysics/philosophical logic, semantics and pragmatics.[1] He is currently leading a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Insight Grant-funded project on The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Languages with Christopher Viger.[2] He is also “a fanatical carp fisher,” as he told Outdoor Canada.[3]
Robert Stainton | |
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Robert James Harold Stainton | |
Born | 1964 (age 59–60) Toronto |
Nationality | Canadian |
Awards | Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Glendon College of York University (BA 1987, HBA 1988) MIT (PhD 1993) |
Thesis | Non-Sentential Assertions (1993) |
Doctoral advisor | Sylvain Bromberger |
Other advisors | Noam Chomsky, James Higginbotham |
Academic work | |
Discipline | philosophy, linguistics |
Institutions | University of Western Ontario |
Website | [1] |