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Accepting PhD Students
PhD projects
I'm happy to supervise graduate students in philosophy of language, ethics, and metaethics.
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I'm an Associate Professor in Philosophy. I joined the philosophy department in 2013 after completing my PhD at the University of Michigan. I specialise in philosophy of language, ethics, and metaethics.
My research is driven by a deep commitment to mutually informed philosophical and linguistic inquiry. My 2016 book, Discourse Contextualism (OUP) – developed under grants from the British Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and Leverhulme Trust – examines how speakers use context-sensitive language in coordinating their attitudes about how the discourse should evolve. The work on normative discourse ("Normative Language in Context," Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Vol. 12) was awarded the Marc Sanders Prize in Metaethics.
My Context Pronouns project integrates the previous treatment of context-sensitive expressions in a wider investigation of how linguistic form and interpretation depend on context. I am examining the prospects for a linguistic theory that posits representations of context in the structure and meaning of natural language. My 2021 book, Semantics with Assignment Variables (CUP), develops the formal framework and applies it to diverse phenomena with modal expressions, quantifiers, anaphora, relativization, and questions.
I also have projects on Nietzsche, predication, and philosophy of law.
My CV can be found here.
Grant projects:
Doctor of Philosophy, “What Normative Terms Mean and Why It Matters for Ethical Theory", University of Michigan
Award Date: 1 May 2013
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
Research output: Book/Report › Book
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Silk, A. (Principal Investigator)
1/01/19 → 30/06/20
Project: Research
Silk, A. (Principal Investigator)
Arts and Humanities Research Council
1/01/16 → 17/11/18
Project: Research Councils
Silk, A. (Recipient), Jan 2019
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
Silk, A. (Recipient), 2024
Prize: National/international honour
10/06/24
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media