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Andreas Stokke Department of Philosophy, Uppsala University, Box 627, SE-75126 Uppsala, Sweden Andreas.Stokke@filosofi.Uu.Se •

Andreas Stokke Department of Philosophy, Uppsala University, Box 627, SE-75126 Uppsala, Sweden Andreas.Stokke@filosofi.Uu.Se •

Curriculum Vitae • September 2021 Andreas Stokke Department of , Uppsala , Box 627, SE-75126 Uppsala, andreas.stokke@filosofi.uu.se • www.andreasstokke.net

Areas of Specialization Philosophy of Language, Semantics, Epistemology

Areas of Competence Logic, Philosophy of Logic, Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics

Degrees and Qualifications Docent in Philosophy, Umeå University, Apr. 2015

PhD in Philosophy, Arché, University of , 2006–2010 • Dissertation title: Indexical- ity and Presupposition: Explorations beyond Truth-Conditional Content • Dissertation supervisors: , François Recanati

MLitt in Philosophy with Distinction, , 2005–2006

MA in Philosophy with First Class Hons., , 2004–2006

BA in Philosophy with First Class Hons., University of Copenhagen, 1997–2002

Academic Positions Senior (universitetslektor) in Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Uppsala Univer- sity, since July 2017

Pro Futura Scientia Research Fellow, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, July 2016–June 2021 • Nominating department: Department of Philosophy,

Senior lecturer (universitetslektor) in Philosophy, Department of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies, Umeå University, Jan. 2013–July 2016

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, LanCog Research Group, , June 2012–Dec 2012

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature, University of , Oct. 2010–May 2012

Visiting Appointments Visiting Fellow, Magdalen , Oxford, Jan.–Mar. 2020

Academic Visitor, Faculty of Philosophy, , Sept. 2019–July 2020

1 Visiting Scholar, Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature, , Feb.–Mar., Oct.–Dec. 2009

Visiting Scholar, Philosophy and Linguistics, New York University, Aug.–Dec. 2008

Additional Affiliation Senior Member, LanCog Research Group, University of Lisbon, since Jan. 2013

Associate Fellow, Arché, University of St Andrews, Jan. 2011–Sept. 2020

Affiliate, Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature, University of Oslo, July 2013–Sept. 2017

Prizes and Awards Royal Skyttean Society Young Researcher Award, 2015.

Humanities Achievement Award, Umeå University, 2015. SEK 433.000,00

Humanities Achievement Award, Umeå University, 2014. SEK 433.000,00

Research Grants Conference grant, The Language of Fiction, Uppsala, June 2019, Swedish Research Council (VR 2019-00334), 2019. SEK 150.000,00.

3 year research project, Representation and Perspective in Language, Swedish Research Council (VR 2014-737), 2015–2017. SEK 1.800.000,00

Analysis Trust Studentship, 2009–2010

Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature International Fellowship, Feb.–Mar. 2009

Arts & Humanities Research Council, Doctoral Scheme, 2006–2009

Arts and Divinity Research Scholarship, University of St Andrews, 2006–2009

Publications Books The Language of Fiction (co-edited with Emar Maier), Oxford University Press, in press

Lying and Insincerity, Oxford University Press, 2018

Lying: Language, Knowledge, Ethics, and Politics (co-edited with Eliot Michaelson), Oxford Univer- sity Press, 2018

2 Papers ”Här och där,” Filosofisk tidskrift, in press.

”Protagonist Projection, Character Focus, and Mixed Quotation,” in Maier and Stokke (eds.), The Language of Fiction, Oxford University Press, in press.

“Lying, Deception, and Epistemic Advantage,” in J. Khoo and R. Sterken (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Social and Political Philosophy of Language, Routledge, 2021.

”Fiction and Importation,” Linguistics and Philosophy, 2021.

”Context as Knowledge” (with Torfinn Huvenes), Mind & Language, 2021.

”Free Indirect Discourse in Non-Fiction,” Frontiers in Communication, 5:606616, 2021.

”Fictional Names and Individual Concepts,” Synthese, 198(8), 7829-7859, 2021.

”Features of Referential Pronouns and Indexical Presuppositions,” Inquiry, 2020.

”Navigation and Indexical Thought,” Erkenntnis, 2020.

“Lies, Harm, and Practical Interest,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 98(2), 2019, 329– 345.

“Bullshitting,” in J. Meibauer (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Lying, Oxford University Press, 2018, 264–276.

“Lying, Sincerity, and Quality,” in J. Meibauer (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Lying, Oxford Uni- versity Press, 2018, 134–148.

“Introduction” (with Eliot Michaelson), in E. Michaelson and A. Stokke (eds.), Lying: Language, Knowledge, Ethics, Politics, Oxford University Press, 2018

“Fabrication and Testimony,” in E. Michaelson and A. Stokke (eds.), Lying: Language, Knowledge, Ethics, Politics, Oxford University Press, 2018

“Paternalistic Lying and Deception,” in K. Grill and J. Hanna (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Paternalism, Routledge, 2018

“Bullshitting, Lying, and Indifference toward Truth” (with Don Fallis), Ergo, 4(10), 2017, 277–309

“Conventional Implicature, Presupposition, and Lying,” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume, 91(1), 2017, 127-147

“Metaphors and Martinis: A Response to Jessica Keiser,” Philosophical Studies, 174(4), 2017, 853– 859

“Proposing, Pretending, and Propriety: A Response to Don Fallis,” Australasian Journal of Philos- ophy, 95(1), 2017, 178–183

“Lies, Deception, and Manipulation,” Thule: Kungl. Skytteanska samfundets årsbok, 29, 2016, pp. 79–90

“What is Said?” (with Anders Schoubye), Noûs, 50(4), 2016, 759–793

“Truthfulness and Gricean Cooperation,” Grazer Philosophische Studien, 93(3), 2016, 489–510

3 “Information Centrism and the Nature of Contexts” (with Torfinn Huvenes), Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 94(2), 2016, 301–314

“Lying and Misleading in Discourse,” Philosophical Review, 125(1), 2016, 83–134

“Manipulation, bedrag og det forkerte i at lyve”, Filosofisk tidskrift, 36(3), 2015, 44–51

“Insincerity,” Noûs, 48(3), 2014, 496–520

“Truth and Context Change,” Journal of Philosophical Logic, 43(1), 2014, 33–51

“And and And*,” in L. Goldstein (ed.), Brevity, Oxford University Press, 2013

“Lying and Asserting,” Journal of Philosophy, CX(1), 2013, 33–60

“Uoprigtighed og viden via vidnesbyrd” [Insincerity and Testimonial Knowledge], Norsk filosofisk tidsskrift [Norwegian Journal of Philosophy], 48(2), 2013, 121–132

“Protagonist Projection,” Mind & Language, 28(2), 2013, 204–232

“Lying, Deceiving, and Misleading,” Philosophy Compass, 8(4), 2013, 348–359

“Intention-Sensitive Semantics,” Synthese, 175(3), 2010, 383–404

Reviews and Critical Notices “Review of Peter Hanks, Propositional Content, Oxford University Press, 2015,” Notre Dame Philo- sophical Reviews, February, 2016

“Saying too Little and Saying too Much. Critical Notice of Lying, Misleading, and What is Said by Jennifer Saul,” Disputatio V(35), 2013, 81–91

“Review of Wright and Jang (eds.), New Waves in Truth, Palgrave Macmillan, July, 2010,” Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2011

Teaching

As Senior Lecturer at Uppsala University Epistemology (A level), Fall 2021

Metaphysics (A level), Fall 2021

Logic (B level), Spring 2021

Knowing and Trusting What You are Told: Issues in the Epistemology and Ethics of Testimony, advanced level, Fall 2020

Philosophy of Mind (B level), Spring 2019

Taste, Fun, Beauty: Predicates of Personal Taste, advanced level, Fall 2018

Perspective in Language and Thought, advanced level, Spring 2018, Fall 2021

Knowing and Trusting What You are Told: Issues in the Epistemology and Ethics of Testimony, advanced level, Fall 2017

4 As Associate Professor at Umeå University

Logic and Formal Methods (B level), Cognitive Science Program, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013

Philosophy of Language (A level), Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013

Logic (A level), Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013

Knowledge, Development and Learning (A level), Umeå School of Education, Fall 2014, Fall 2013

Two-Dimensional Semantics: Indexicality and the A Priori, graduate level, Spring 2014

Introduction to Philosophy (A level), Fall 2013, Spring 2013

Knowledge and Memory (A level), Cognitive Science Program, Fall 2013

Action (A level), Cognitive Science Program, Fall 2013

As Teaching Assistant at the University of St Andrews Reasoning and Knowledge, Spring 2008

Mind and Reality, Fall 2007

Introduction to Logic, Spring 2007

Knowledge and Reality, Fall 2006

Training Research Supervision in Practice [Forskarhandledning i praktiken], Umeå University, Fall 2013

Introduction to Tutoring/Demonstration, University of St Andrews, Fall 2006

Assessment to Academic Misconduct, University of St Andrews, Fall 2006

PhD Student Supervision Sofia Bokros, Uppsala University, primary supervisor, since 2021

Carl Montan, Uppsala University, secondary supervisor, since 2020

Nils Franzén, Uppsala University, secondary supervisor, 2017–2018

Bram Vaassen, Umeå University, secondary supervisor, 2014–2016

5 Presentations Refereed “Fictions and Derived Contexts,” Once upon a time...: Semantic approaches to fiction, literature, and narrative, , Sept. 2018

“Testimony and New Knowledge,” Swedish Congress of Philosophy, Stockholm, June 2013

“Metasemantics and Indirectness,” 1st PLM Conference, , Stockholm, Sept. 2011

“Modality, Counterfactuals, and Anti-Exceptionalism,” Dublin Postgraduate Conference on Philo- sophical Methodology, Trinity College, Dublin, Mar. 2010

“Truth and Meaning in Dynamic Semantics,” Respondent: Johannes Schmitt, UCLA/USC Grad- uate Conference, University of Southern California, Feb. 2010

“Felicity and Expression in Dynamic Semantics,” ENFA 2009, University of Évora, Portugal, Sept. 2009

“Felicity and Expression in Dynamic Semantics,” SOPHA 2009, University of Geneva, Sept. 2009

“Descriptive Uses of Indexicals as Implicatures,” Respondent: Kathrin Glüer-Pagin, Stockholm Graduate Conference, Stockholm University, May 2009

“Descriptive Uses of Indexicals as Implicatures,” VAF 2009, University of Tilburg, Jan. 2009

“Descriptive Uses of Indexicals as Implicatures,” Propositions: Ontology, Semantics and Prag- matics, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Nov. 2008

“Interpretation and Indexicality,” Respondent: Manuel García-Carpintero,Varieties of Context Sensitivity, LOGOS, University of Barcelona, Mar. 2008

“Why Even the Best Intentions aren’t Good Enough,” Respondent: Cristina Roadevin, X Taller d’Investigació en Filosofia, LOGOS, University of Barcelona, Jan. 2008

Invited ”Here and There,” Perspective Taking in Language, University of Groningen, June 2021

”Sharing Fictional Names,” Graz Philosophy of Language Colloquium, University of Graz, June 2021

”Fiction and Importation,” Linguistics Meets Literature, University of Tübingen, Nov. 2020

”Sharing Fictional Names,” Particularity and Generality in Mind, Umeå University, Nov. 2020

”Quotative Be Like,” (with Derek Ball), Summer Language Online Workshop (organized by Eliot Michaelson and Alexandru Radulescu), the Internet, June 2020.

”Fictional Metarepresentation in Non-Fiction,” Faculty of Philosophy, , Feb. 2020

”Fictional Metarepresentation in Non-Fiction,” Semantics and Pragmatics Reading Group, Fac- ulty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics, University of Oxford, Feb. 2020

”Fictional Metarepresentation in Non-Fiction,” University of , Nov. 2019

6 ”Fictional Metarepresentation in Non-Fiction,” Arché, University of St Andrews, Nov. 2019

”Navigation and Indexical Thought,” Cognitive Science Research Group Seminar, New College of the Humanities, London, Oct. 2019

“Are the Person and Gender Features of Pronouns Presupposition Triggers?,” The Principles of Formal Semantics, Stockholm University, Sept. 2019

“Speaker’s Reference and Presupposed Reference,” (with Torfinn Huvenes), Arché 20th Anniver- sary Conference, University of St Andrews, June 2019

“Protagonist Projection, Character Focus, and Mixed Quotation,” Storytelling, , Feb. 2019

“Fiction, Non-Fiction, and Derived Contexts,” Department of Philosophy, University of Gothen- burg, Oct. 2018

“Fiction, Non-Fiction, and Derived Contexts,” The Iceland Meaning Workshop, Skálholt, Iceland, Aug. 2018

“Lying and Deception: Conscientiously Uncoupled” (with Eliot Michaelson), Insincerity, Self- Deception, and Self-Talk, Dublin, June 2018

“Modal Metarepresentation,” Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge, April 2018

“Modal Metarepresentation,” New York Philosophy of Language Workshop, New York University, March 2018

“Modal Metarepresentation,” Department of Philosophy, University of Groningen, Feb. 2018

“Modal Metarepresentation,” Direct and Indirect Communication, Uppsala University/Stockholm University, Feb. 2018

“Non-Declaratives, Indirect Speech Acts, and Insincerity,” Department of Philosophy, Stock- holm University, December 2017

“Conventional Implicature, Presuppositions, and Lying,” The 91st Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association, , July 2017

“Indexicals as Variables,” Uppsala Workshop in the Philosophy of Language, Uppsala University, June 2017

“The Nature of Contexts” (with Torfinn Huvenes), CSMN Closing Conference, University of Oslo, May 2017

“Indexicals as Variables,” What Context Can and Cannot Do, Semantics and Metasemantics of Context-Sensitive Languages Network, Universität Hamburg, April 2017

“Are Indexicals Dispensable?,” Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University, March 2017

“Are Indexicals Dispensable?,” Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala, Feb. 2017

“Lies, Harm, and Practical Interests,” Stockholm June Workshop in Philosophy, Stockholm Uni- versity, June 2016

“Context as Shared Knowledge” (with Torfinn Huvenes), LanCog, University of Lisbon, April 2016

7 “Abusing Communication: The Wrong in Insincere Speech,” Department of Philosophy, Uni- versity of Bergen, Feb. 2016

“Indexicals as Variables,” Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature, University of Oslo, Feb. 2016

“Indexicals as Variables,” Department of Philosophy, Uppsala University, Nov. 2015

“Truthfulness and Communication,” Department of Nordic Languages, Uppsala University, Nov. 2015

“Abusing Communication: The Wrong in Insincere Speech,” Lying and Deception, Institute of Philosophy/King’s College London, Nov. 2015

“Truthfulness and Communication,” guest lecture in undergraduate seminar, King’s College London, Nov. 2015

“Indexicals as Variables,” Context-Relativity in Semantics, Universität Salzburg, July 2015

“Insincerity and Testimony,” University of Copenhagen, June 2015

“Insincerity and Testimony,” New Work on Lying, Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature, Uni- versity of Oslo, May 2015

“Inquiry, Subinquiry, and Misinquiry,” Non-Alethic Goals of Enquiry, Arché, University of St An- drews, Oct. 2014

“Indexicals as Variables,” University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Oct. 2014

“Bullshit, Truth, and Inquiry” (with Don Fallis), Lying and Deception, Johannes Gutenberg Uni- versity Mainz, Mainz, Sept. 2014

“Questions and What is Said” (with Anders Schoubye), Understanding and Misunderstanding, Final EuroUnderstanding Conference, Lisbon, May 2014

“Judgments and Lotteries,” Center for Logic, Language, and Mind, Stockholm University, Stock- holm, April 2014

“Judgments and Lotteries,” Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, Ludwig-Maximilians- Universität, Munich, Jan. 2014

“Lying, Misleading, and Questions under Discussion,” Institut Jean Nicod, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, June 2013

“Testimony and New Knowledge,” , June 2013

“Insincerity and Unreliability,” Deference, Testimony, and Diversity, University of Copenhagen, Nov. 2012

“Insincerity and Knowledge across Chains of Testimony,” Stockholm University, Sept. 2012

“What is the Sincerity Requirement on Testimony?,” 2nd LanCog Annual Workshop, University of Lisbon, June 2012

“What is the Sincerity Requirement on Testimony?,” University of Copenhagen, May 2012

“Is the Lying-Misleading Distinction Context-Sensitive?,” Communicative Success, EuroUnder- standing CCCOM workshop, Stockholm University, May 2012

8 “Prediction and Explanation in Semantics: The Case of Presupposition Projection,” Leverhulme Network Workshop, Chicago, Feb. 2012

“Insincerity,” Lying and Insincerity, Arché, University of St Andrews, Nov. 2011

“Truth and Context Change,” Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy,Ludwig-Maximilians- Universität, Munich, Nov. 2011

“Truth in Dynamic Semantics,” Arché/ILLC Minicourse: Dynamic Semantics, Vagueness, and Conditionals, Arché, University of St Andrews, May 2011

“Lying and Asserting,” Lying, Saying, and Meaning, Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature, University of Oslo, Apr. 2011

“Protagonist Projection and Theta Contexts,” Perspective in Discourse, Centre for Advanced Study, The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Mar. 2011

“Does Metasemantics constrain Semantics?,” University of Copenhagen, Jan. 2011

“Truth and Meaning in Dynamic Semantics,” Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature, University of Oslo, Nov. 2009

“Intention-Sensitive Semantics,” Context and Intentions, Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature, University of Oslo, Feb. 2009

“Descriptive Uses of Indexicals as Implicatures,” Danish Epistemology Network, University of Copenhagen, Dec. 2008

Academic Service Referee for Publications Journals American Philosophical Quarterly, Analysis, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Belgian Jour- nal of Linguistics, British Journal of Aesthetics, Dialectica, Eidos, Episteme, Erkenntnis, Ethics, European Journal of Philosophy, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Journal of Semantics, Journal of Philosophy, Linguistics & Philosophy, Mind, Mind & Language, Nordic Journal of Linguistics, Noûs, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophers’ Imprint, Philosophia, Philo- sophical Review, Philosophical Studies, Philosophical Quarterly, Synthese

Publishers Oxford University Press, Routledge, MIT Press

Referee for Funding Austrian Science Fund, Lise Meitner Programme

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Insight Grants

Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), Postdoctoral Researchers International Mo- bility Experience (PRIME)

9 Conference and Workshop Organization The Language of Fiction, Uppsala University, June 2019 (co-organizer)

Perspective in Language and Thought, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study/Department of Philosophy, Uppsala University, Nov. 2017 (organizer)

Conceptual Thought and Linguistic Communication, University of Salzburg, May 2016 (co- organizer)

New Work on Lying, Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature, University of Oslo, May 2015 (co-organizer)

Coordination and Disagreement across Perspectives, LanCog, University of Lisbon, Sept. 2012 (co-organizer)

OFA8 Graduate Workshop, University of Lisbon, Sept. 2012 (co-organizer)

Lying and Insincerity, Arché, University of St Andrews, Nov. 2011 (organizer)

Lying, Saying, and Meaning, Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature, University of Oslo, Apr. 2011 (organizer)

1st Semantics and Philosophy in Europe Colloquium, École Normale Supérieure, May 2008 (co- organizer)

Outreach and Public Communication Seminar on statistics and misleadingness, Office for Statistics Regulation (https://www.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/osr/), UK Statistics Authority, June 2020. Follow-up thinkpiece published May 2021 (https://osr.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/publication/misleadingness- a-follow-up-thinkpiece/).

Interview with Nils Thorsen for Politiken, , Feb. 2018. Published as “Den ædle kunst at føre andre bag lyset ... uden at lyve,” Politiken, 10 July 2018

Interview on lying with Yudhijit Bhattacharjee for National Geographic, Feb. 2017

Public prize lecture for Royal Skyttean Society Young Researcher Award: “Lies, Deception, and Manipulation,” Umeå University, Oct. 2015

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