Claire Horisk

Claire Horisk
Professor
121 Middlebush Hall
Faculty
Education

Ph.D.  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Research

Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Feminism

Select Publications

Horisk, C. (2024). Dangerous jokes: How racism and sexism weaponize humor. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197691496.001.0001
Released as an audiobook by Tantor Media, narrated by Rachel Perry.

Horisk, C. (2021). Can McGowan explain hepeating? Res Philosophica, 98(3), 519-527. https://doi.org/10.11612/resphil.2059

Horisk, C., & Cocroft, R.B. (2013). Animal signals: always influence, sometimes information. In U.E. Stegmann (Ed.), Animal communication theory: Information and influence (pp. 259-280). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139003551

Horisk, C. (2011). Meaning, mind, & matter: Philosophical essays by Ernie Lepore & Barry Loewer [Book review]. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/meaning-mind-matter-philosophical-essays/

Horisk, C. (2010). Explicit truth ascriptions. In C.D. Wright, N.J.L.L. Pedersen (Eds.), New Waves in Truth. New Waves in Philosophy (pp. 97-112). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230296992_7

Horisk, C. (2008). Truth, meaning, and circularity. Philosophical Studies, 137, 269-300. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-005-8541-y

Horisk, C. (2007). The expressive role of truth in truth‐conditional semantics. The Philosophical Quarterly, 57(229), 535-557. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9213.2007.496.x

Horisk, C. (2004). Meaning theory and communication. Mind & Language, 19(2), 177-198. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0017.2004.00253.x

Bar-On, D., Horisk, C., & Lycan, W.G. (2000). Deflationism, meaning and truth-conditions. Philosophical Studies, 101(1), 1-28. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1026463916160

Office Hours

By Appointment only.

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