Kirk Alan Ludwig (born May 11, 1959)
Education and career
Ludwig graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. in
physics from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1981 and earned his Ph.D. in
philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley in 1990, where he worked with Donald Davidson. He joined the faculty at the University of Florida in 1990, where he taught until 2010 when he joined Indiana University Bloomington.
Philosophical work
Ludwig works in Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind,
Epistemology,
Metaphysics, and Philosophy of Action. He is best known for his work on natural language semantics in the tradition of Donald Davidson, his interpretation of the work of Donald Davidson with
Ernest Lepore,
his work on collective action, shared intention, and institutional agency,
and his work on the epistemology of thought experiments and philosophical intuition.
He has collaborated extensively with Marija Jankovic,
Ernest Lepore, and Greg Ray, as well as with Emil Badici, John Biro, Daniel Boisvert, Wade Munroe, and
Susan Schneider.
Selected bibliography
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