Ernest or Ernie Lepore (born November 20, 1950) is an

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and cognitive scientist and a professor of

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Rutgers University Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's College, and was ...

Education and career

Lepore earned his

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from the

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in 1978, and began teaching at the

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before joining the philosophy department at

in 1981, where he has taught ever since.

Philosophical work

He is well known for his work on the

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and

mind The mind is the set of faculties responsible for all mental phenomena. Often the term is also identified with the phenomena themselves. These faculties include thought, imagination, memory, will, and sensation. They are responsible for various m ...

, sometimes in collaboration with

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and

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, as well as his work on

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and the philosophy of Donald Davidson.

Selected publications

*''Imagination and Convention: Distinguishing Grammar and Inference in Language'', with Matthew Stone (Oxford University Press, 2015) *''Handbook in Philosophy of Language'', ed. with B. C. Smith, (Oxford University Press, 2006) *''Insensitive Semantics'', with

(2004, Basil Blackwell) *''Donald Davidson: Truth, Meaning, Rationality in Mind'', with Kirk Ludwig (Oxford University Press, 2005) *''Donald Davidson's truth-theoretic Semantics'', with Kirk Ludwig (Oxford University Press, 2007), *''Meaning and Argument'', with Sam Cumming (Blackwell, 2000) *''Holism: A Shopper's Guide'', with

(Blackwell, 1991) *''The Compositionality Papers'', with Jerry Fodor (Oxford University Press, 2002) *''What Every Student Should Know '' with Sarah-Jane Leslie (Rutgers Press, 2002).

References

External links

Rutgers faculty home page for Dr. Lepore

Curriculum vitae

Meaning, truth, language, reality, an interview with 3:AM Magazine
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