Richard Gaskin

contemporaryAnalytic Philosophy

b. 1960

Richard Gaskin is a contemporary British philosopher specializing in metaphysics, philosophy of language, and the history of analytic philosophy. He is known for his work on the unity of the proposition, Bradley's regress, and his defense of a realist semantics rooted in the linguistic turn.

Notable Achievements

Authored 'The Unity of the Proposition' (2008), a major treatment of Bradley's regress

Developed a distinctive realist account of meaning and reference

Wrote 'Language, Truth, and Literature' defending a propositional theory of literary meaning

Contributed extensively to debates on the metaphysics of relations and predication

Professor of Philosophy at the University of Liverpool

Positions & Arguments(1)

Consciousness & Mind

claim

Lowe's solution to Bradley's regress merely replaces one equally thorny problem with another