Team
Thirteen scholars, coast to coast.
Two project leads, nine collaborators and two informal mentors, at universities in British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, Quebec and Newfoundland.
Project leads
Robert Stainton
Principal Investigator. Philosophy, Western University. Co-editor, with Margaret Cameron, of Linguistic Content: New Essays on the History of Philosophy of Language (Oxford, 2015). Has written on the history of early analytic philosophy. rstainto@uwo.ca
Benjamin Hill
Co-Investigator. Philosophy, Western University. Publishes on Early Modern philosophy, especially Locke. bhill28@uwo.ca
Hill and Stainton, with Margaret Cameron, co-edited Sourcebook in the History of Philosophy of Language (Springer, 2017), about 1,100 pages of primary sources in English translation, from the Ancient Greeks into the nineteenth century.
Collaborators
Endre Begby
Simon Fraser University
Historical perspectives on sign language and the sign–gesture boundary
Brendan Gillon
McGill University, Linguistics
Contrasts with Classical Indian philosophy of language; the pre-history of formal semantics
Matthew Leisinger
York University
Early Modern philosophy of language: Locke and the Cambridge Platonists
David Liebesman
University of Calgary
The metaphysics of languages
Patrick Rysiew
University of Victoria
Thomas Reid’s philosophy of language; the Early Modern period
Arthur Sullivan
Memorial University of Newfoundland
The pre-history of pragmatics: Mill on implicature, Aristotle on metaphor
Manuela Ungureanu
University of British Columbia, Okanagan
Cartesian philosophy of language and the Port-Royal scholars
Nicole Wyatt
University of Calgary
Medieval and nineteenth-century logic and philosophy of language, including the medieval notion of appellation
Byeong-uk Yi
University of Toronto
The logico-linguistic works of Aristotle, Ockham, Buridan and J. S. Mill
Informal mentors
Rachel Barney
University of Toronto
Plato’s philosophy of language
Claude Panaccio
Université du Québec à Montréal
Logic and language in the late Middle Ages
Mentors advise, comment on drafts and connect the team with their networks. Future student members and additional collaborators will be listed here.
HOWPOL, Western University, London, Ontario · Benjamin Hill bhill28@uwo.ca · Robert Stainton rstainto@uwo.ca
