James R. Shaw

I'm an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh where I came after completing my PhD at Harvard in 2009.

My main areas of research are in the philosophy of language and philosophical logic, but I have lately dabbled in a few other areas including formal epistemology (especially decision theory), the ethics and epistemology of close interpersonal relationships (e.g. promising and trust), the history of analytic philosophy (especially Wittgenstein), and the philosophy of action. I've posted papers on some of these topics here.