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John MacFarlane [home page]
Professor of Philosophy
Graduate Advisor
Office: 150 Philosophy Hall
Office hours: Tu 3-5
Phone: (510) 328-3546
E-mail: jgm@berkeley.edu
(Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh). His primary research interests lie in the philosophy of language, philosophical logic, and related issues in metaphysics and epistemology; he also maintains a secondary interest in ancient philosophy. He is the author of Assessment Sensitivity: Relative Truth and Its Applications (Oxford University Press, 2014), Philosophical Logic: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge, 2021), and numerous articles.