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Edward Schwartz

Office: 301 Philosophy Hall
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E-mail: edward.schwartz@berkeley.edu

Dissertation advisors: R. Jay Wallace and Seth Yalcin

I work on philosophy of language, especially where it intersects with ethics and metaethics. Here are some things I’ve been writing about recently:

-the semantics and pragmatics of thick terms (‘kind’, ‘cruel’, ‘blasphemous’)

-the semantics and pragmatics of slurs

-the formal structure of evaluative discourse

-the acquaintance inference

-the way that displays of blame communicate expectations

Here is my website.