Dilip Ninan
Associate Professor
Department of Philosophy
Tufts University
United States of America
Biography
Dilip Ninan received his Ph.D. from MIT, B.Phil. from Oxford University, and B.A. from the University of Western Ontario. Before coming to Tufts, he spent three years as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. His research interests include the philosophy of language, formal semantics, metaphysics, and the philosophy of mind. He has worked on the representation of de se and de re attitudes, the nature of personal identity over time, and on foundational questions in semantics. When not philosophizing, he enjoys reading, running, cooking, and skiing.
Research Interest
Philosophy of Language, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind
Publications
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"Two Puzzles About Deontic Necessity." In Gajewski, Hacquard, Nickel, and Yalcin (eds.), New Work on Modality, MIT Working Papers in Linguistics (2005): 149-178.
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"Semantics and the Objects of Assertion." Linguistics and Philosophy (2010): 335-380.
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"Propositions, Semantic Values, and Rigidity." Philosophical Studies (forthcoming).
