Jason Bridges

Jason Bridges
Associate Professor, Diversity Liaison (2018-19)
Stuart Hall, Room 222
Office Hours: Autumn Quarter, Wednesdays: 3:00 - 5:00 pm *Students should email me to reserve a slot.
773.834.8191
University of California, Berkeley PhD (2001); Harvard University, BA, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa (1994)
Teaching at UChicago since 2009
Research Interests: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language

Jason Bridges received his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in 2001 and his BA from Harvard University in 1994. His primary research and teaching areas are the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of language. He also has interests in metaphysics and epistemology, the philosophy of action, the later work of Wittgenstein, and political philosophy. His main current projects are about reasons and rationality, and epistemic and semantic contextualism. He has also written on logical and structural difficulties in the "naturalization" of content, the relationship between content externalism and the rationality-involving character of psychological explanation, and issues concerning the attribution of mental states to animals.

Selected Publications

"Skepticism and Beyond," Sképsis 7:14 (2016) (PDF)

"The Search for 'the Essence of Human Language' in Wittgenstein and Davidson," forthcoming in Wittgenstein and Davidson on Thought and Action, ed. Claudine Verheggen (Cambridge University Press) (PDF)

"Rule-Following Skepticism, Properly So-Called", in Varieties of Skepticism, ed. James Conant and Andrea Kern (DeGruyter, 2014) (PDF)

"Meaning and Understanding", in A Companion to Wittgenstein, ed. John Hyman and Hans-Johann Glock (Wiley-Blackwell, 2017) (PDF)

"Wittgenstein vs. Contextualism," in Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations: A Critical Guide, ed. A. M. Ahmed (Oxford University Press, 2010) (PDF)

"Dispositions and Rational Explanation", forthcoming in The Possibility of Philosophical Understanding, ed. Niko Kolodny and Wai-hung Wong (Oxford University Press) (PDF)

"Does Informational Semantics Commit Euthyphro's Fallacy," Nous 60 (2006): 522-547 (PDF Pre-Print)

"Davidson's Transcendental Externalism," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 73 (2006): 290-315 (PDF Pre-Print)

"Teleofunctionalism and Psychological Explanation," Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 87 (2006): 403-321 (PDF Pre-Print)

"Rationality, Normativity, and Transparency," Mind 118 (2009): 353-367 (PDF)

Media

Jason Bridges recorded lectures

Recent Courses

PHIL 43112 Sensation

An examination of the difficulties philosophers have faced in achieving a satisfactory view of sensation - and of the roles they have wanted sensation to play in grounding larger accounts of the nature of the 'mind' or 'soul'. Readings will be partly historical and partly contemporary, with attention to both thematic continuities and discontinuities between them. Authors include: Aristotle, Hobbes, Descartes, Wittgenstein, Ryle, Putnam, Lewis, and Kriegel. (III)

2018-2019 Winter
Category
Philosophy of Mind

PHIL 29601 Intensive Track Seminar

This seminar will explore an advanced topic in philosophy. It is required as part of the intensive track of the Philosophy Major.

Open only to third-year students who have been admitted to the intensive track program.

2018-2019 Autumn

For full list of Jason Bridges's courses back to the 2012-13 academic year, see our searchable course database.