Ernest Lepore is an American philosopher and cognitive scientist

Cognitive science

Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary scientific study of mind and its processes. It examines what cognition is, what it does and how it works. It includes research on how information is processed , represented, and transformed in behaviour, nervous system or machine...

. He is currently Acting Director of the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science, and a professor at Rutgers University

Rutgers University

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey, United States. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial colleges founded before the American...

. He is well known for his work on the philosophy of language and mind, often in collaboration with Jerry Fodor

Jerry Fodor

Jerry Alan Fodor is an American philosopher and cognitive scientist. He holds the position of State of New Jersey Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University and is the author of many works in the fields of philosophy of mind and cognitive science, in which he has laid the groundwork for the...

, Herman Capplen and Kirk Ludwig, as well as his work on philosophical logic and the philosophy of Donald Davidson

Donald Davidson (philosopher)

Donald Herbert Davidson was an American philosopher born in Springfield, Massachusetts, who served as Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley from 1981 to 2003 after having also held teaching appointments at Stanford University, Rockefeller University, Princeton...

. Lepore earned his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota

The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557...

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Selected publications

• Handbook in Philosophy of Language, ed. with B. Smith, (Oxford University Press, 2006)
• Insensitive Semantics, with Herman Cappelen
  Herman Cappelen
  Herman Cappelen is a Norwegian philosopher currently teaching at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. His main areas of research include philosophy of language, philosophical methodology and related areas in epistemology, philosophy of mind, and metaphysics.- Education :Cappelen received a...
  
   (2004, Basil Blackwell)
• Donald Davidson: Truth, Meaning, Rationality in Mind, with Kirk Ludwig (Oxford University Press, 2005)
• Donald Davidson's truth-theoretic Semantics, with Kirk Ludwig (Oxford University Press, 2007),
• Meaning and Argument, (Blackwell, 2000)
• Holism: A Shopper's Guide, with Jerry Fodor
  Jerry Fodor
  Jerry Alan Fodor is an American philosopher and cognitive scientist. He holds the position of State of New Jersey Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University and is the author of many works in the fields of philosophy of mind and cognitive science, in which he has laid the groundwork for the...
  
   (Blackwell, 1991)
• The Compositionality Papers, with Jerry Fodor (Oxford University Press, 2002)
• What Every Student Should Know with Sarah-Jane Leslie (Rutgers Press, 2002).

External links

• Rutgers faculty home page for Dr. Lepore