Alexander Johnstone Kühnert

I am pursuing a PhD in philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh. I work in the philosophy of language and mind, the history of early analytic philosophy (Frege and Wittgenstein), and the philosophy of logic. I have a strong interest in Kant's theoretical philosophy. 

Publications

Kripke on Indirect Senses, Journal of Philosophy (forthcoming). 

Dissertation

My dissertation is in the neo-Fregean philosophy of language and mind. I develop a novel account of Fregean thoughts and Fregean truth. My starting point is the fact that one cannot think a thought of the form X that p (such as A believes that p or it is true that p) without thinking the very thought p that it is about. I argue on this basis that the senses of predicates are functions, with a particular focus on the sense of the truth-predicate. 

I am also working on three exegetical papers: a paper, influenced by Cora Diamond, on Frege's claim that "we might read logic off from the language"; a paper on Frege's conception of the composition of thoughts; and a paper on Davidson's conception of truth.