Faculty specialists in Wittgenstein / Philosophy of Language?

[USC95]

Any recommendations on current faculty who have specialized in Wittgenstein and/or the Philosophy of Language? Also any specific grad programs you would recommend?

 

MIT seems to have a lot of faculty in the Philosophy of Language, but I'm not sure if there are any specific schools or scholars that are considers "experts" in this specific field of Philosophy.

 

Thanks for any recommendations you may have!
 

[akaveha]

UCLA is the obvious one in my book given Tyler Burge, David Kaplan and the rest.

[ZiggyPhil]

Well, I'd start with Leiter's area rakings.

 

Phil Language:

 

Group 1 (best):

NYU

Oxford

Rutgers

USC

 

Group 2:

CUNY

MIT

Princeton

Berkeley

UCLA

Michigan

Texas

 

Wittgenstein doesn't have his own group, but you could check out the schools that are highly regarded in History of Analytic, and see who has someone interested in W.

[maxhgns]

UCLA is the obvious one in my book given Tyler Burge, David Kaplan and the rest.

 

 

Kaplan graduated his last student last year, and I think Burge is also on the verge of retirement...

[USC95]

Thank you for all the info! I majored in Philosophy (ethics emphasis) as an undergrad, and I only began learning about Wittgenstein a few years ago. His later work really interests me, and I'd love to learn more. Truly appreciate it!

[maxhgns]

There are a fair few Wittgenstein scholars at Toronto (plus language folks). There are also quite a few at Queen's (Kingston, Canada), although they have fewer full-on language faculty. So those might be worth adding to the list above.

[greencoloredpencil]

Kaplan graduated his last student last year, and I think Burge is also on the verge of retirement...

 

 

Is this just speculation? Or do you have specific information regarding the situation?

[Establishment]

Is this just speculation? Or do you have specific information regarding the situation?

 

I hope you didn't downvote Max because of your, now deleted, post being downvoted, because that was from me. Max is a trustworthy and helpful source. I don't remember what your old post said, but it seemed unnecessarily accusatory.

[greencoloredpencil]

I hope you didn't downvote Max because of your, now deleted, post being downvoted, because that was from me. Max is a trustworthy and helpful source. I don't remember what your old post said, but it seemed unnecessarily accusatory.

I'm sorry that it sounded unnecessarily accusatory. I didn't mean for it to come across that way. I did think that it was max who down voted me so I down voted as a reply to that. I was mistaken and apologize for that (from my mistaken perspective I though he simply didn't answer me and just gave me a down vote).

I'm somewhat familiar with circumstances at UCLA myself and hadn't heard anything like this so I was surprised, I didn't mean to sound harsh.

[maxhgns]

I'm sorry that it sounded unnecessarily accusatory. I didn't mean for it to come across that way. I did think that it was max who down voted me so I down voted as a reply to that. I was mistaken and apologize for that (from my mistaken perspective I though he simply didn't answer me and just gave me a down vote).

I'm somewhat familiar with circumstances at UCLA myself and hadn't heard anything like this so I was surprised, I didn't mean to sound harsh.

 

Kaplan's last student is a friend of mine (he defended recently), and our faculty have pretty close ties to UCLA. 

 

My info isn't official, but I think it's trustworthy, at least as far as Kaplan is concerned (note that he's 81!). As far as Burge is concerned, I can only report a lot of talk about him winding down soon. He might well still be taking students--that, I don't know (he's only 68). But I do know you can't count on Kaplan.