Christopher Gauker

Christopher Gauker
Christopher Gauker
Education	University of Pittsburgh (PhD)
Era	21st-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
Institutions	University of Salzburg; University of Cincinnati;
Thesis	The Refutation of Internalism: An Essay on Intentionality (1984)
Doctoral advisor	Wilfrid Sellars
Main interests	Philosophy of language
	Influences Ludwig Wittgenstein, Donald Davidson, Richard Rorty, Wilfrid Sellars;
Website	www.christophergauker.sbg.ac.at

Christopher Gauker is an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Salzburg. He is known for his works on philosophy of language.[1][2][3][4]

Life

Gauker grew up in Bloomington, Minnesota and attended the University of Chicago, where Donald Davidson directed his bachelor's thesis. He received his doctoral degree from the University of Pittsburgh, where Wilfrid Sellars directed his dissertation. Before coming to Salzburg, he was a Professor at the University of Cincinnati.

Words and Images: An Essay on the Origin of Ideas, Oxford University Press, 2011
Conditionals in Context, MIT Press, 2005
Words without Meaning, MIT Press, 2003
Thinking Out Loud: An Essay on the Relation between Thought and Language, Princeton University Press, 1994

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