Christopher Gauker is an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Salzburg. He is known for his work on philosophy of language.
Life Gauker grew up in Bloomington, Minnesota and attended the University of Chicago, where Donald Davidson directed his bachelor's thesis. He received his doctoral degree from the University of Pittsburgh, where Wilfrid Sellars directed his dissertation. Before coming to Salzburg, he was a professor at the University of Cincinnati.
Books Words and Images: An Essay on the Origin of Ideas, Oxford University Press, 2011 Conditionals in Context, MIT Press, 2005 Words without Meaning, MIT Press, 2003 Thinking Out Loud: An Essay on the Relation between Thought and Language, Princeton University Press, 1994
See also Meaning (philosophy of language) Meaning (linguistics)
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External links Personal website