Dr Derek Ball

Senior Lecturer

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 1795

Email

db71@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Research areas

Dr Ball's research interests include a wide range of issues in the philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and related areas.  He has written on foundational issues in semantics and the foundations of linguistic meaning and on the nature of concepts and concept possession, and has applied views in these areas to debates about the nature of consciousness, about epistemology, and elsewhere.  His research also includes projects in developmental and comparative psychology.

PhD supervision

• Lixiao Lin
• Emilia Wilson
• Victor Tamburini
• Jean Gové
• Stefano Pugnaghi

Selected publications

• Open access

  Revisionary analysis without meaning change (or, could women be analytically oppressed?)

  Ball, D. N., 23 Jan 2020, Conceptual Engineering and Conceptual Ethics. Burgess, A., Cappelen, H. & Plunkett, D. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 36-58

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Open access

  Monsters and the theoretical role of context

  Rabern, B. & Ball, D., 22 Mar 2019, In: Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 98, 2, p. 392-416

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Capuchin monkeys individuate objects based on spatio-temporal and property/kind information: evidence from looking and reaching measures

  Kersken, V., Zhang, D., Gomez, J-C., Seed, A. M. & Ball, D. N., 1 Aug 2020, In: Animal Behavior and Cognition. 7, 3, p. 343-364 22 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Metasemantic ethics

  Ball, D., 4 Feb 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Ratio. Early View

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

 

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