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Bryan Pickel is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Glasgow. He previously served as a Reader at the University of Edinburgh and began his role as a Chancellor's Fellow in 2013. Dr. Pickel has held a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Barcelona as part of the PERSP project and has been a member of the LOGOS research group. He earned his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin. His philosophical interests are broad, with primary research areas including metaphysics, philosophy of language, and the history of analytic philosophy. Notably, his recent work focuses on the structure of thoughts and how they differ from the structure of sentences used to express them. He is willing to revise his views in light of new evidence. Dr. Pickel also has a longstanding interest in the philosophy of Susan Stebbing and is keen on supervising and co-supervising postgraduate students in projects related to philosophy of language, metaphysics, and the history of analytic philosophy, including works that seek to broaden the traditional canon.