Professor Ian Rumfitt
Linguistics, Philosophy
Senior Research Fellow since 2016
I have been at All Souls since 2016, having previously taught at the Universities of London, Birmingham, and Michigan, and having been a Tutorial Fellow of Univ. for eight years. My main project since joining the College has been a large-scale book on the philosophy of language which I expect to appear, under the title 'Wise Men's Counters: An Essay on Truth and Understanding', in 2027. Since 2016, I have also published papers on philosophical logic and the philosophy of mathematics.
Research Areas
Philosophy of Language
Philosophical Logic
Philosophy of Mathematics
History of Analytic Philosophy (especially Frege and Ramsey)
Selected Publications
The Boundary Stones of Thought: An Essay in the Philosophy of Logic
OUP (2015)
'Truth-Conditions and Communication'
Mind (1995)
'"Yes" and "No"'
Mind (2000)
'Truth'
Oxford Studies in the Philosophy of Language (2019)
'Intuitionism and the Modal Logic of Vagueness' (with S. Bobzien)
Journal of Philosophical Logic (2020)
'Generalized Quantifiers in an Axiomatic Truth Theory'
Australasian Journal of Philosophy (2024)