Benj Hellie
Biography
Professor Hellie鈥檚 research interests include philosophy of mind (consciousness, rationality, intentionality, perception, action); epistemology and philosophical semantics (traditional and formal); and the history of analytical philosophy (especially David Lewis). His central research program explores the prospects and consequences of abandoning the centrality of truth to the theory of meaning: in particular, of reconciling the structures and concerns of the analytical tradition with an 鈥榓ntirealist鈥 approach to mind characteristic of the hermeneutical tradition. For more information, please visit .
Education
- PhD, Princeton University
- BA, Stanford University
Teaching Interests
Teaching in 2024-25
PHLB20: Belief, Knowledge and Truth
PHLC22: Topics in the Theory of Knowledge
PHLC99: Philosophical Development Seminar
Research Interests
Epistemology, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind
Publications
- 鈥淩elativized metaphysical modality鈥, with Adam Russell Murray and Jessica Wilson, Routledge Handbook of Modality, Ottavio Bueno and Scott Shalkowski, editors, 2018.
- 鈥淎n analytic鈥揾ermeneutic history of Consciousness鈥, Cambridge History of Philosophy: 1945鈥2015, Kelly Michael Becker and Iain Thomson, editors, 2018.
- 鈥淧raxeology, imperatives, and shifts of view鈥, Process, Action, and Experience, Rowland Stout, editor, OUP, 2018.
- 鈥淒avid Lewis and the Kangaroo: Graphing philosophical progress鈥, Philosophy鈥檚 Future: The Problem of Philosophical Progress, Russell Blackford and Damien Broderick, editors, Blackwell, 2017.
- 鈥淩ationalization and the Ross Paradox鈥, Deontic Modality, Nate Charlow and Matthew Chrisman, editors, OUP, 2016.
- 鈥淟ove in the time of cholera鈥, Does Perception Have Content?, Brit Brogaard, editor, OUP, 2014.
- 鈥淭here it is鈥, Philosophical Issues, 2011.
- 鈥淔active phenomenal characters鈥, Philosophical Perspectives, 2007.
- 鈥淣oise and perceptual indiscriminability鈥, Mind, 2005.