Marga Reimer

Marga Reimer (Ph.D., MIT), Associate Professor of Philosophy, works primarily in the philosophy of language, but also has interests in philosopical logic and history of 20th century analytic philosophy. She is currently working on methodological issues in the philosophy of language.

Recent Publications:

• Descriptions and Beyond, edited with Anne Bezuidenhout, Oxford University Press, 2004.

• "Pragmatic Accounts of Mixed Quotation: Too Counter-Intuitive to Believe?" forthcoming in the Belgian Journal of Linguistics.
• "The Metaphor of Correspondence," forthcoming in Protosociologie.
• "Descriptive Names," in A. Bezuidenhout and M. Reimer's Descriptions and Beyond, Oxford University Press, 2004.
• "The Ellipsis Account of Fiction Talk," R. Stainton and R. Elugardo's Ellipsis and Non-Sentential Speech, Kluwer, 2004.
• "What Malapropisms Mean: A Reply to Donald Davidson," Erkenntnis, January 2004.
• "Reference," Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2003.
• "Do Adjectives Conform to Compositionality?," Nous, October 2002.
• "Ordinary Proper Names," in On Logical Form and Language, Oxford University Press, G. Preyer and Georg Peter, eds., 2002.
• "Davidson on Metaphor," H. Wettstein's Midwest Studies in the Philosophy of Language, December 2001.
• "A 'Meinongian' Solution to a Millian Problem," American Philosophical Quarterly 38, 2001.
• "The Problem of Empty Names," Australian Journal of Philosophy 79, 2001.
• "Hesperus is Phosphorus: Contingent or Necessary," Facta Philosophica, December 1999.

Contact Professor Reimer at:

Department of Philosophy
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona 85721-0027

reimer AT u DOT arizona DOT edu