Ernest Lepore
Ernest or Ernie Lepore is an American philosopher and cognitive scientist and a professor of philosophy at Rutgers University.Education and career
Lepore earned his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1978, and began teaching at the University of Notre Dame before joining the philosophy department at Rutgers University in 1981, where he has taught ever since.Philosophical work
He is well known for his work on the philosophy of language and mind, sometimes in collaboration with Jerry Fodor, Herman Cappelen and Kirk Ludwig, as well as his work on philosophical logic and the philosophy of Donald Davidson.- Imagination and Convention: Distinguishing Grammar and Inference in Language, with Matthew Stone
- Handbook in Philosophy of Language, ed. with B. Smith,
- Insensitive Semantics, with Herman Cappelen
- Donald Davidson: Truth, Meaning, Rationality in Mind, with Kirk Ludwig
- Donald Davidson's truth-theoretic Semantics, with Kirk Ludwig,
- Meaning and Argument, with Sam Cumming
- Holism: A Shopper's Guide, with Jerry Fodor
- The Compositionality Papers, with Jerry Fodor
- What Every Student Should Know with Sarah-Jane Leslie.
