I am a philosopher at the University of Guelph, in the very pleasant city of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. (It’s pronounced “gwelf.”) My academic training was at the University of Toronto and the University of Pittsburgh where I completed my PhD under the direction of Robert Brandom.
Teaching
I am on Transition Leave for the 2018–2019 academic year, having completed my term as Department Chair; no teaching responsibilities.
Service
In addition to normal departmental service responsibilities
I am one of the (14) Executive Editors of the Canadian
Journal of Philosophy.
Research
I work in philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and epistemology.
Currently I’m working (in collaboration with Juhani Yli-Vakkuri) on the semantics and
pragmatics of distributed utterances: utterances that are (more than
usually) spread out in time or space, or made partly by one speaker and partly
by another. (The simplest example is a slow utterance of “Now I’m
starting my sentence, and now I’m finishing it.”) I am also
interested in the theory of concept possession, in particular the challenges to
it posed by the phenomena first highlighted in Benson Mates’s famous
examples of expressions multiply embedded within the scopes of attitude
verbs.
Recent publications:
Kinds of monsters and kinds of compositionality. Analysis, forthcoming.
Russellianism unencumbered. Philosophical Studies 174 (2017): 2819–43.
Scare-quoting and incorporation. In The semantics and pragmatics of quotation, edited by Paul Saka and Michael Johnson, 3–34. Dordrecht: Springer, 2017.
Email
mmcculla@uoguelph.ca
Phone
(519) 824–4120 ×53221
Mail
Dept of Philosophy
University of Guelph
Guelph, ON
Canada N1G 2W1
Office
332
MacKinnon Bldg. (How to find the
Department of Philosophy)
Office hours
None for 2018–2019.