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I grew up in Bloomington, Minnesota. I attended the University of Chicago, where Donald Davidson directed my bachelor’s thesis, the University of Frankfurt, where I took courses from Richard Rorty, and the University of Pittsburgh, where Wilfrid Sellars directed my dissertation.

My publications are in the areas of Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, and Philosophical Logic. I have taught courses on a wide range of other subjects as well.

I taught for many years at the University of Cincinnati. In 2014 I moved to beautiful Salzburg, where I am the Professor of Theoretical Philosophy.

Here you can see a video of me being interviewed in 2005 by Giovanni Mion about my book Words without Meaning.

Here you can see a debate between Prof. Kathrin Glüer (Stockholm University) and me on the nature of perceptual content (orginally created in 2011 for Philosophy TV).

Here is my inaugural lecture at the University of Salzburg, “Das Verhältnis zwischen Sprache und Denken”, June 2, 2016 (in German).

On a visit to Salzburg, Prof. Dena Schottenkirk (Brooklyn College, CUNY) invited me to an interview for her talkPOPc podcast series. She wanted to know what imagistic cognition, as I call it, contributes to our appreciation of graphic arts. I think we had an interesting conversation. You can listen to it here.

(The photo shows me  lecturing on imagistic cognition at the 2023 meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology in Prague, Czech Republic. Photo Credit: Romana Kovacs.)