Professor of Philosophy
Office: Sycamore 125
ludwig@indiana.edu

See also: Professor Ludwig's home page

Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, Philosophy, June 1990.
B.S. University of California, Santa Barbara, Physics, 1981, summa cum laude.

• Professor, Department of Philosophy, Indiana University, August 2010-present.
• Colonel Alan R. and Margaret G. Crow CLAS Term Professor, August 2008-July 2010.
• Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Florida, June 2005 – July 2008.
• Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Florida, June 1995 – May 2005.
• Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Florida, August 1990 - May 1995.

I work on foundational issues in the philosophy of language (esp. logical form and semantics), epistemology, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of action (esp. collective action). Among other projects, I am currently working on a book on collective agency titled, Collective Action: From Individual to Institutional Agency.

Books

• Donald Davidson's Truth-theoretic Semantics, with Ernie Lepore, Oxford University Press, 2007.
• Donald Davidson: Meaning, Truth, Language and Reality, with Ernie Lepore, Oxford University Press, 2005.
• Donald Davidson, (ed.) Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Articles and Book Chapters

1. "Truth and Meaning Redux," with Ernie Lepore, Philosophical Studies, 154, 2011: 251-277.
2. "Intuitions and Relativity," Philosophical Psychology, 23(4), August 2010: 427-45.
3. "Fodor’s Challenge to the Classical Computational Theory of Mind," with Susan Schneider, Mind and Language, 23, 2008: 123-143.
4. "The Concept of Truth and the Semantics of the Truth Predicate," with Emil Badici, Inquiry, 2007, 50(6): 622–638.
5. "The Epistemology of Thought Experiments: First vs. Third Person Approaches," in Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Philosophy and the Empirical, 2007, 31 (1), 128–159.
6. "The Argument from Normative Autonomy for Collective Agents,"Journal of Social Philosophy, 2007, 38(3): 410-427.
7. "Collective Intentional Behavior from the Standpoint of Semantics," Noûs, 2007, 41(3): 355-393.  
8. "Semantics for Nondeclaratives," with Daniel Boisvert, The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Language, eds. B. Smith and E. Lepore, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, pp. 864-892.
9. "Is the aim of perception to provide accurate representations?" Contemporary Debates in Cognitive Science, ed. R. Stainton, Blackwell, 2006, pp. 259-274.
10. "Davidson's Objection to Horwich's Minimalism about Truth," Journal of Philosophy, August 2004, pp. 429-437.
11.  "Rationality, Language and the Principle of Charity," in The Oxford Handbook of Rationality, eds. A. Mele and P. Rawling, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004, pp. 343-362.
12.  "The Mind-Body Problem: An Overview," in The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Mind, eds. T. Warfield and S. Stich, Blackwell, 2003, pp. 1-46.
13.  "Outline of a Truth Conditional Semantics for Tense," with Ernie Lepore, in Tense, Time and Reference, eds. A. Jokic and Q. Smith, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003, pp. 49-105.
14.  "Vagueness and the Sorites Paradox" with Greg Ray, Philosophical Perspectives 16, 2002. 
15.  "What is Logical Form?" with Ernie Lepore, in Logical Form and Language, eds. G. Preyer and G. Peter, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. 54-90. 
16.  "What is the role of a truth theory in a meaning theory?" in Truth and Meaning: Topics in Contemporary Philosophy, Seven Bridge Press, 2001, pp. 142-163.
17.  "The Semantics and Pragmatics of Complex Demonstratives," with Ernie Lepore, Mind 109 (April 2000): 199-240. 
18. "Semantics for Opaque Contexts," with Greg Ray, Philosophical Perspectives, 12, Language, Mind and Ontology (1998): 141-166.
19. "Explaining Why Things Look the Way They Do," in Perception, Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science, v. 5, ed. by Kathleen Akins, Oxford: Oxford University Press (1996): 18-60.
20. "Singular Thought and the Cartesian Theory of Mind," Noûs, (December 1996): 434-460. 
21. "Shape Properties and Perception," Perception, Philosophical Issues, v. 6, ed. Enrique Villanueva, Ridgeview (1995): 325-350.
22. "Why the difference between Quantum and Classical Mechanics is Irrelevant to the Mind Body Problem," Psyche 2(5) (October 1995).