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Eric Swanson is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he has taught since 2006 after earning his PhD in Philosophy with a minor in Linguistics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research interests encompass various branches of philosophy, including Language Philosophy, Linguistics, Metaphysics, and Epistemology. He works on language normativity and semantic theories concerning normative modals such as 'must', 'ought', and 'may', focusing especially on concepts like indeterminacy and incomparability. Swanson has made significant contributions to the understanding of committed and detached utterances within linguistic communication, developing a rigorous empirical theory to explain behavior in this domain. His recent work extends to the philosophy of artificial intelligence, interfaces between language and epistemology, and frameworks for linguistic theorizing, specifically 'constraint semantics' and 'ordering supervaluationism'.
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science