About

Robert Stainton is a Canadian philosopher whose work usually applies empirical linguistics to philosophical issues and philosophical analysis to issues about language. He was educated at Glendon College of York University in Toronto and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has been at The University of Western Ontario since 2004, where he is presently Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy. In 2012 he was elected to the Royal Society of Canada. He is currently leading a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Insight Grant-funded project on The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Languages with Christopher Viger. For a detailed CV please click here.