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Education:
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My BA is in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from Balliol College, at the University of Oxford. Jonathan Barnes was my primary tutor. I have a PhD in Philosophy, from the the University of California, Berkeley. My supervisors were John Searle, Stephen Neale and Charles Chihara.
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Work:
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I am a professor of philosophy at the University of St Andrews, where I work at The Arché Philosophical Research Centre. Earlier I have worked at the University of Oxford, University of Oslo, and Vassar College. With Deirdre Wilson I direct the Linguistic Agency component of CSMN at the University of Oslo.
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Interests:
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I work in philosophy of language, philosophical methodology, and related areas in epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind. My first two books - Insensitive Semantics (Blackwell 2004) and Language Turned on Itself (OUP 2007) - were co-authored with Ernie Lepore. Lepore and I have also co-authored many papers on a wide range of topics (including indirect speech, semantic minimalism, contextualism, and quotation).
My third book, Relativism and Monadic Truth (OUP 2009), was co-authored with John Hawthorne.
My fourth book, Philosophy without Intuitions, is being published by OUP in February/March 2012.
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Arché:
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With Jessica Brown I direct the Philosophical Methodology Project (2008-2012).
I direct the Contextualism and Relativism Project (2008-2012).
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CSMN:
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With Deirdre Wilson I direct the Philosophy of Language and Linguistics component of the Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature (CSMN).
For information about CSMN, take a look at our webpage: CSMN
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Background:
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I grew up in the middle of a forest (Vestmarka) outside a small village (Tanum) in the Southern part of Norway. My father was the playwright and publisher Peder W. Cappelen and my mother is the actress Kari Simonsen. One of my four brothers, Alexander Cappelen, is an economist with an interest in philosophical issues.
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