Mark Crimmins is a contemporary analytic philosopher working primarily in philosophy of language and mind. He is best known for his work on the semantics of belief reports and propositional attitude ascriptions, arguing that such reports invoke unarticulated contextual constituents. His book Talk About Beliefs (1992) developed an influential account of how ordinary belief sentences can be both true and informative despite apparent substitution failures.
Developed the unarticulated constituents account of belief report semantics in Talk About Beliefs (1992)
Argued that belief sentences exploit contextually supplied 'notions' to resolve Frege's puzzle about substitution failures
Contributed to debates on contingently existing propositions and world-relative ontology of abstracta
Collaborated with Jon Perry on the semantics of incomplete and context-dependent descriptions