Christopher Gauker

{{short description|American philosopher}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2025}} {{Infobox philosopher |region = Western philosophy |era = 21st-century philosophy |color = |image = |birth_date = |birth_place = |death_date = |death_place = |school_tradition = | institutions = {{Plainlist| * University of Salzburg * University of Cincinnati }} |main_interests = Philosophy of language | thesis_title = The Refutation of Internalism: An Essay on Intentionality | thesis_url = https://philpapers.org/rec/GAUTRO-8 | thesis_year = 1984 | doctoral_advisor = Wilfrid Sellars | doctoral_students = |notable_ideas = | spouse = | education = University of Pittsburgh {{Small|(PhD)}} | alma_mater = |awards = |website = {{URL|http://www.christophergauker.com/}} }} '''Christopher Gauker''' is an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Salzburg. He is known for his works on philosophy of language.<ref>{{cite web |title=Review: Christopher Gauker, Words without Meaning. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003. pp. xxi, 299 |url=https://philosophy.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Gauker-review.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Weatherson |first1=Brian |title=Review of Words Without Meaning |journal=Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews |date=8 September 2003 |url=https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/words-without-meaning/ |issn=1538-1617}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Machery |first1=Edouard |title=Review of Words and Images: An Essay on the Origin of Ideas |journal=Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews |date=23 August 2012 |url=https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/words-and-images-an-essay-on-the-origin-of-ideas/ |issn=1538-1617}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Mölder |first1=Bruno |title=Interview with Christopher Gauker |journal=Vikerkaar Kultuuriajakiri |date=2015 |volume=3 |pages=75–80 |url=https://philpapers.org/rec/MLDIWC}}</ref>

==Life== Gauker grew up in Bloomington, Minnesota and attended the University of Chicago, where Donald Davidson directed his bachelor's thesis. He received his doctoral degree from the University of Pittsburgh, where Wilfrid Sellars directed his dissertation. Before coming to Salzburg, he was a professor at the University of Cincinnati.

==Books== * ''Words and Images: An Essay on the Origin of Ideas'', Oxford University Press, 2011 * ''Conditionals in Context'', MIT Press, 2005 * ''Words without Meaning'', MIT Press, 2003 * ''Thinking Out Loud: An Essay on the Relation between Thought and Language'', Princeton University Press, 1994

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==External links== * [https://christophergauker.com/ Personal website]

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