# Stephen Schiffer

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**Stephen Schiffer** (born 1940) is an American philosopher and currently Silver Professor of Philosophy at [New York University](/source/New_York_University). He is a specialist in the [philosophy of language](/source/Philosophy_of_language).

## Education and career

Schiffer was awarded a [Bachelor of Arts](/source/Bachelor_of_Arts) in philosophy from the [University of Pennsylvania](/source/University_of_Pennsylvania) in 1962 and a [Ph.D.](/source/Ph.D.) in philosophy from [Oxford University](/source/Oxford_University) in 1970. He taught at the [University of California, Berkeley](/source/University_of_California,_Berkeley), the [University of Arizona](/source/University_of_Arizona), and the [Graduate Center of the City University of New York](/source/Graduate_Center_of_the_City_University_of_New_York) before moving to the [New York University Department of Philosophy](/source/New_York_University_Department_of_Philosophy). He was elected a [fellow](/source/Fellow) of the [American Academy of Arts and Sciences](/source/American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences) in 2007.[1]

## Philosophical work

He has specialized in the [philosophy of language](/source/Philosophy_of_language), and is the author of three significant works concerning semantic meaning: *Meaning* (OUP, 1972), *Remnants of Meaning* ([MIT Press](/source/MIT_Press), 1987), and *The Things We Mean* (OUP, 2003).

## References

1. ["AAAS Elects Five NYU Faculty, Along with Gore, O'Connor, and Bloomberg"](http://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2007/05/01/aaas_elects_five_nyu_faculty.html), [New York University](/source/New_York_University), May 1, 2007.

## External links

- [Schiffer's homepage](http://philosophy.fas.nyu.edu/object/stephenschiffer) ([archived version](https://web.archive.org/web/20160823142005/http://philosophy.fas.nyu.edu/object/stephenschiffer))

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