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. 

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. 

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!