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Dorit Bar-On Author

Dorit Bar-On is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut and Director of the Expression, Communication, and the Origins of Meaning Research Group. Previously, she taught at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where she was the Zachary Smith Distinguished Professor of Research and Undergraduate Education. She specializes in philosophy of language and mind, epistemology, and metaethics, and has published on topics such as translation, conceptual relativism, meaning and truth, expression and expressivism, and origins of meaning.

Crispin Wright isGlobal Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at New York University and Professor of Philosophical Research at the University of Stirling. He has taught at Oxford, Columbia, Princeton, and St. Andrews, where he was the first Wardlaw University Professor and founded the research center, Arché. Specializing in epistemology and the philosophies of language and mathematics, Wright has been the recipient of many externally funded competitive awards for both individual and collaborative research.