Edward Elliott
Associate Professor of Philosophy
574-631-7284
eelliot2@nd.edu
401 Malloy
Education
PhD, Australian National University
Research Interest
Philosophy of mind, decision theory, formal epistemology, philosophy of language, metaethics, philosophy of biology
My primary research interest is in philosophy of mind, and in particular the nature and content of graded beliefs and desires. This connects to measurement theory, functionalism, interpretivist theories of representation, rationality, and the foundations of probability theory and decision theory. I also have work in the philosophy of language (especially metasemantics and two-dimensional semantics) and metaethics (especially analytic naturalism and moral nihilism); and a longstanding love for philosophy of biology.
Representative Publications
'Radical Misinterpretation' in Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/papq.12436
'How to Read a Representor', forthcoming in Ergo http://www.edwardjrelliott.com/uploads/7/4/4/7/74475147/[ergo_final]_how_to_read_a_representor.pdf
'A Representation Theorem for Frequently Irrational Agents' in Journal of Philosophical Logic, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10992-016-9408-8
'Impossible Worlds and Partial Belief' in Synthese, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-017-1604-8