About
I'm an associate professor of philosophy at the Tufts University. Most
of my research is in the philosophy of language and formal
semantics, but I'm also interested in epistemology, the philosophy
of mind, metaphysics, and philosophical logic. I co-direct the Linguistics Minor at Tufts, and I teach a number of
courses related to this, including Semantics, Philosophy of
Language, and Modal Logic. I hold a BA from the University of
Western Ontario, a BPhil from Oxford University, and a PhD from MIT.
From 2019-2024, I was an Editor-in-Chief of Linguistics and
Philosophy. During the 2020-2021 academic year, I was a
fellow at the Paris Institute
for Advanced Study. 111 Miner Hall,
Tufts University
Work
2025. Analytic Philosophy. Advance online publication.
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Forthcoming in the International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Elsevier.
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2025. Philosophers'
Imprint. 25(11): 1-22.
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2024. Mind. 133(531): 761-792.
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2024. Philosophers'
Imprint. 24(13): 1-23.
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2024. Analysis. (advance online version)
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2023. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly.
104(2): 465-492.
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2022.
Proceedings of the 23rd Amsterdam Colloquium. 221-227
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2022. Philosophical Review. 131(4): 405-451.
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2022.
Analytic Philosophy. 63(3): 147-155.
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2021. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 44(E164).
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2021.
Noûs 55(2): 334-362.
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2020. Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 30,
753-778.
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2020. In S.
Biggs and H. Geirsson (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic
Reference, Routledge.
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2018.
Philosophical Review 127(2): 433-485.
Selected by the
Philosopher's Annual as one of the ten best papers published in
philosophy in 2018.
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2018. Journal of Philosophical Logic 47(1):
1-16.
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2017.
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 95(3): 371-377.
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2017. Theoretical
Linguistics 43(1-2): 61-70
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2016. In A. Kind
(ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Imagination,
Routledge.
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2016. In
M. Garcia-Carpintero and S. Torre (eds.),
About Oneself: De Se
Attitudes and Communication, Oxford University Press.
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2016. Philosophical Review 125(3):
439-447.
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2015. Inquiry
58(4): 368-377.
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2014.
Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT
) 24: 290-309.
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2013. Philosophy and
Phenomenological Research 87(2):301-331.
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2012.
Semantics and Pragmatics 5(5):1-57.
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2012.
Philosophical Studies 158(3): 401-413.
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2011. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
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2011. Protosociology.
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2010.
Linguistics and Philosophy 33(5): 355-380.
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2010. Philosophy Compass 5(7): 551-567.
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2009.
Philosophical Review 118(4): 425-464.
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2005. MIT
Working Papers in Linguistics 51: 149-178.
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2015. Notes for talk at the Norwegian Institute in Athens.
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2008. PhD
dissertation, MIT.
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2006.
Unpublished manuscript.
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fileContact
Medford, MA, 02155, USA
dilip.ninan [at] tufts.edu
+1 (857) 756-2324