Terence Parsons

Terence Parsons
Born 1939
Era Contemporary philosophy
Region Western philosophy
School Analytic philosophy
Doctoral advisor Jaakko Hintikka
Doctoral students Edward N. Zalta
Jim Waldo
Main interests
 Metaphysics
Notable ideas
 Nonexistent objects

Terence Parsons (born 1939) is an American contemporary philosopher of the analytic tradition. Parsons is also a Professor at UCLA in its Department of Philosophy.

He works on the semantics of natural language to develop theories of truth and meaning for natural language similar to those devised for artificial languages by philosophical logicians.[1] Heavily influenced by Alexius Meinong, he wrote Nonexistent Objects (1980), which dealt with possible world theory in order to defend the reality of nonexistent objects.

Biography

Parsons was born in Endicott, New York and graduated from the University of Rochester with a BA in physics. He received his PhD from Stanford University in 1966. He was a full time faculty member at the University of Illinois at Chicago from 1965 to 1972, at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst from 1972 to 1979, at the University of California at Irvine from 1979 to 2000, and at the University of California at Los Angeles from 2000 to 2012.[2] In 2007, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[3]

Works

  • Nonexistent Objects, Yale University Press, 1980.
  • Events in the Semantics of English, MIT Press, 1990.
  • Indeterminate Identity, Oxford University Press, 2000.
  • Articulating Medieval Logic, Oxford University Press, 2014.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Laurels to Linguists Archive". Linguistic Society of America. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
  2. ↑ "Articulating Medieval Logic: Author Information". Oxford University Press. 10 May 2014. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
  3. ↑ Wolpert, Stuart (8 May 2017). "Six UCLA faculty elected to academy". UCLA Newsroom. Retrieved 4 March 2018.


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