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Robert Stalnaker

Robert Stalnaker

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
48
Citations
14808
World Ranking
3063
National Ranking
1488

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1992 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1974 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Robert Stalnaker is affiliated with MIT in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Arts and Humanities, with significant contributions in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Philosophy, Language and Linguistics, and Computational Theory and Mathematics.

The main topics addressed in their work include Philosophy and Theoretical Science, Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics, Historical Linguistics and Language Studies, Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms, Philosophical Ethics and Theory, Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education, and Language, Metaphor, and Cognition.

Several recent papers authored by Robert Stalnaker illustrate their research focus:

  • "Reference Fixing and the Contingent A Priori" (2021), published in Theoria
  • "On meaning as species" (2022), published in Inquiry

Frequent co-authors with whom they have collaborated include:

  • Felicia Nimue
  • Ackerman Robert
  • Adams Louise
  • Antony Robert
  • Audi Block

The venues where Robert Stalnaker has most often published their work consist primarily of Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, with additional publications in Theoria and Inquiry.

Among accolades received, Robert Stalnaker was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992 and a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1974.

Best Publications

  • A Theory of Conditionals

    Robert C. Stalnaker

  • Presuppositions of Compound Sentences

    Lauri Karttunen;Edward L. Keenan;Robert C. Stalnaker

  • Conceptual analysis, dualism, and the explanatory gap

    Ned Block;Robert Stalnaker

  • Context And Content

    Unknown

  • On the Representation of Context

    Robert Stalnaker

  • Common Ground

    Unknown

  • Probability and Conditionals

    Robert C. Stalnaker

  • Context and content : essays on intentionality in speech and thought

    Robert Stalnaker

  • Knowledge, Belief and Counterfactual Reasoning in Games

    Robert Stalnaker

  • A Defense of Conditional Excluded Middle

    Robert C. Stalnaker

  • A semantic analysis of conditional logic1

    Robert C. Stalnaker;Richmond H. Thomason

  • On Logics of Knowledge and Belief

    Robert Stalnaker

  • BELIEF REVISION IN GAMES : FORWARD AND BACKWARD INDUCTION

    Robert Stalnaker

  • Our Knowledge of the Internal World

    Robert C. Stalnaker

  • Pragmatics: Implicature, Presupposition, and Logical Form

    Robert Stalnaker;Gerald Gazdar

  • The Problem of Logical Omniscience, I

    Robert C. Stalnaker

  • Varieties of supervenience

    Robert Stalnaker

  • Ifs. Conditionals, Belief, Decision, Chance, and Time

    William L. Harper;Robert Stalnaker;Glenn Pearce

  • A Semantic Theory of Adverbs

    Richmond Thomason;Robert Stalnaker

  • What might nonconceptual content be

    Robert Stalnaker

  • Indicative conditionals

    Unknown

  • On the evaluation of solution concepts

    Robert Stalnaker

  • Ways a World Might Be

    Robert C. Stalnaker

  • Pragmatics

    Unknown

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