Robert Stainton

Robert Stainton (born 1964) is a Canadian philosopher/linguist and Distinguished University Professor at the University of Western Ontario. He is known for his works on the philosophy of language, cognitive science/philosophy of the mind, analytic metaphysics/philosophical logic, semantics and pragmatics.^[1] He is currently leading a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Insight Grant-funded project on The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Languages with Christopher Viger.^[2] He is also “a fanatical carp fisher,” as he told Outdoor Canada.^[3]

Robert Stainton
Robert James Harold Stainton
Born	1964 (age 60–61) Toronto
Nationality	Canadian
Awards	Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Academic background
Alma mater	Glendon College of York University (BA 1987, HBA 1988) MIT (PhD 1993)
Thesis	Non-Sentential Assertions (1993)
Doctoral advisor	Sylvain Bromberger
Other advisors	Noam Chomsky, James Higginbotham
Academic work
Discipline	philosophy, linguistics
Institutions	University of Western Ontario
Website

Selected publications

• Words and Thoughts. Oxford University Press, Oxford: 2006. [248 pp.] (Paperback edition, with corrections: 2009.)
• Knowledge and Mind. (With J. Andrew Brook). The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA: 2000. [253 pp.] (Paperback edition: 2001.)
• Philosophical Perspectives on Language. Broadview Press, Peterborough, ON: 1996. [239 pp.]
• Discourse, Structure and Linguistic Choice: The Theory and Applications of Molecular Sememics by T. Price Caldwell. (Co-edited with Oliver Cresswell) Springer, Dordrecht: 2018. [134 pp.]
• Sourcebook in the History of Philosophy of Language: Primary Source Texts from the Pre-Socratics to Mill. (Co-edited with Margaret Cameron and Benjamin Hill). Springer, Dordrecht: 2017. [1102 pp.]
• Linguistic Content: New Essays on the History of Philosophy of Language. (Co-edited with Margaret Cameron). Oxford University Press, Oxford: 2015. [288 pp.]
• Michael Gregory’s Proposals for a Communication Linguistics. (Co-edited with Jessica de Villiers). Editions du GREF, Toronto: 2009. [340 pp.]
• Compositionality, Context and Semantic Values: Essays in Honour of Ernie Lepore. (Co-edited with Christopher Viger) Springer, Dordrecht: 2009. [281 pp.]
• The Achilles of Rationalist Psychology. (Co-edited with Thomas M. Lennon). Springer, Dordrecht: 2008. [289 pp.]
• Ellipsis and Non-Sentential Speech. (Co-edited with Reinaldo Elugardo) Springer, Dordrecht: 2005. [262 pp.]