David Balcarras

I'm a Lecturer in philosophy and a Digital Learning Lab Fellow at MIT, where I got my PhD in September 2020. I work on metasemantics, the nature of natural language, and the metaphysics of speech and words.

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Present

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Lecturer in Philosophy in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy

Fellow in the MITx Digital Learning Lab

Past

Education

PhD in Philosophy, MIT (2020)

MA in Philosophy, University of Toronto (2014)

BA (Hons) in Philosophy, University of Toronto Scarborough (2013)

Papers

In Progress

Email me for drafts of:

[A paper on what it is to have a language]

[A paper on whether we tacitly know a compositional semantics for our language]

[A paper on what it might be to tacitly know a grammar]

[A paper on the metaphysics of speech]

Pieces

Foster on sustainment

David Lewis autocitation network (with Benj Hellie)

Assorted philosophy audiovisuals