NAT HANSEN

Associate Professor of Philosophy

University of Reading

n.d.hansen@reading.ac.uk

NEWS

My book on ordinary language philosophy and experimental philosophy of language, Must We Measure What We Mean? is under contract with Oxford University Press. 

"The Very Idea of Seriousness", written with Zed Adams, is forthcoming in European Journal of Philosophy. 

I have upcoming talks at the University of Edinburgh's Meaning Sciences Group, and at the Stanley Cavell at 100 Centennial Conference at Paris 1, and I'm organizing a workshop on aesthetic judgment, criticism, and conversation at Reading in May. 

I wrote about "disordered attention" for Mid-Theory Collective. 

"Measuring Conceptual Inflation: The Case of 'Racist'", written with Sam Liao, is forthcoming in Ergo. 

"Conceptual inflation", also written with Sam Liao, is forthcoming in EurAmerica. 

"Distributional Semantics, Holism, and the Instability of Meaning", written with Jumbly Grindrod and J.D. Porter, is forthcoming in the volume Communicating with AI: Philosophical Perspectives (Sterken and Cappelen eds.), OUP. 

The Irish Times interviewed me about conceptual inflation. 

I was on the Cows in the Field movie podcast talking about Red Dawn!