Jeff Speaks

Jeff joined Notre Dame's philosophy department in 2006, after receiving his PhD from Princeton University. He works mainly in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of language, though he also has interests in the philosophy of religion, metaphysics, and the history of analytic philosophy. More information about his research and teaching is available here. 

Representative Publications

• “The schmidentity strategy,” Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Language v. 3 (2023), 182-204.
• “Pautz on the laws of appearance, internalism, and color realism,” Inquiry 67:8 (2024), 2271-2282.
• “Is there such a thing as felicitous underspecification?” Philosophical Studies 181 (2024), 3169–3179.
• “What propositions need not be,” Synthese 205:4 (2025), 1-19.
• “Verbal disputes about the content of experience,” Philosophical Quarterly 75:3 (2025), 1164-1188.