Research Bio

John MacFarlane is a philosopher whose research focuses on the philosophy of language and logic. He is best known for his work on truth relativism, assertion, disagreement, epistemic and deontic modals and their interaction with conditionals, future contingents, knowledge attributions, vagueness, the demarcation of logic, the normativity of logic, and the logicist program in philosophy of mathematics. He has also made contributions to the history of philosophy (including Plato, Aristotle, Abelard, Kant, and Frege).

Research Expertise and Interest

ancient philosophy, philosophical logic, philosophy of language, epistemology