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, has been published in the European Journal of Philosophy. 

I have upcoming talks at the University of Edinburgh's Meaning Sciences Group, UCL Linguistics, 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.