Jason Bridges

Jason Bridges


Areas of Study: Department of Philosophy Website: https://chicago.academia.edu/JasonBridges
Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and the College
Biography

Jason Bridges received his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in 2001 and his BA from Harvard University in 1994. His primary research and teaching areas are the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of language. He also has interests in metaphysics and epistemology, the philosophy of action, the later work of Wittgenstein, and political philosophy. His main current projects are about reasons and rationality, and epistemic and semantic contextualism. He has also written on logical and structural difficulties in the "naturalization" of content, the relationship between content externalism and the rationality-involving character of psychological explanation, and issues concerning the attribution of mental states to animals.