Patricia Hanna

Department of Philosophy		Department of Linguistics
260 South Central Campus Dr		255 South Central Campus Dr.
Rm 341		Rm. 2300
University of Utah		University of Utah
Salt Lake City UT 84112		Salt Lake City UT 84112
Phone: 801-581-8710		Phone: 801-581-5512
e-mail: phanna@mail.hum.utah.edu

EDUCATION

Ph.D., University of Cincinnati, 1972

B.A. with Honors, University of Cincinnati, 1967

CURRENT POSITIONS

Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Utah, 1990-present

Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Utah, 2001-present

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

Word and World: Practice and the Foundations of Language, with Bernard Harrison, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

PAPERS

``Swimming and Speaking Spanish,'' Philosophia, forthcoming.

``What Kripke's Puzzle Does Not Tell Us About Meaning, Language and Belief,'' Philosophia, forthcoming.

``Interpretation and Reality: Two Queries for Krausz,'' with, Bernard Harrison, in Interpretation and Ontology in the Philosophy of Michael Krausz, Ritivoi, Andreea Deciu, ed., Rodopi Press, 2003.

``Linguistic Competence and Kripke's Puzzle,'' Philosophia, June 2001.

``The Vanishing Tortoise,'' Philosophia, December 1994.

``The World, the Elephant and the Tortoise,'' Philosophia, July 1994.

``If It Can't Be Said, It Can't Be Said,'' Philosophical Investigations, April 1992.

``Must Thinking Bats Be Conscious?,'' Philosophical Investigations, October 1990.

``Causal Powers and Cognition,''Mind, January 1985.

``Translation, Indeterminacy and Triviality'' Philosophia, December 1984.

``On Children's Rights,'' Teaching Philosophy, April 1983 (with, T. M. Reed).

``Developmental Theory and Moral Education,'' Teaching Philosophy, January 1982 (with, T. M. Reed).

``Philosophy, Children, and Liberal Education,'' Improving College and University Teaching, Fall 1981 (with, T. M. Reed).

``Children's Liberation,'' Philosophy, April 1980 (with, T. M. Reed).

``On Sameness and Necessity,'' Philosophical Investigations, Spring 1981.

``Origin and Necessity,'' Philosophical Studies, November 1977.

``What Might Speakers 'Tacitly Know'?,'' Encyclia, Fall 1977.

``Declaratives, Performatives and Grammar,'' The Journal of Philosophical Linguistics, Spring 1973.

``An Hypothesis Concerning Singular Causal Laws,'' The Journal of Philosophical Linguistics, Spring 1972.

EDITED PAPERS

Philosophia asked me to do extensive editing of a paper ('A New Theory of Emotion: Moral Reasoning and Emotion') by my late colleague, William Whisner. This involved reducing the length of the paper from 55 to 24 pages; it appeared in Spring 2003.

REVIEWS

The Moral Dimensions of Academic Administration, Rudolph Weingartner, Ethics, April 2001.

On What We Know We Don't Know, Sylvain Bromberger, Journal of Anthropological Linguistics, Summer 1994.

Locke, Karen Iverson Vaughn, The Economic Forum, 1985.

Sorts, Ontology, and Metaphor, Shalom Lappin, Review of Metaphysics, March 1983.

Philosophy in the Classroom, 2nd ed., Matthew Lipman, Ann Margaret Sharp, and Frederick S. Oscanyan, Teaching Philosophy, July 1982 (with, T. M. Reed).

Ethical Inquiry, Matthew Lipman, Ann Margaret Sharp and Fredrick S. Oscanyan, Teaching Philosophy, July 1982.

Semiotics and Linguistic Structure, R. M. Martin, Review of Metaphysics, June 1982.

Equal Rights for Children, Howard Cohen, Ethics, April 1982.

Education, Society and Human Nature, Anthony O'Hear, Ethics, April 1982.

Whose Child?: Children's Rights, Parental Authority and State Power, William Aiken and Hugh LaFollette, eds., Ethics, October 1981.

Having Children: Philosophical and Legal Reflections on Parenthood, Onora O'Neill and William Ruddick (eds.), Ethics, July 1981.

Ways of Meaning, Mark Platts, Teaching Philosophy, Fall 1979.

The Language of Thought, Jerry Fodor, Philosophical Investigations, Spring 1979.

Elementary Formal Logic, G. N. Georgacarakos and Robin Smith, Teaching Philosophy, Spring 1979.

On Noam Chomsky: Critical Essays, Gilbert Harman, ed., Teaching Philosophy, Spring 1976.

RECENT PRESENTATIONS

``A Wittgensteinian Ontology of Interpretation'' Bryn Mawr College, Department of Philosophy, 10 September 2005.

``Word and World: How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Multiplism,'' Bryn Mawr College, Philosophy Colloquium Series, 1 October 2003.

``Collective Memory and the Construction of Orthodoxy,'' with Mary N. Hampton, Western Humanities Conference, Salt Lake City, 16 October 2003.

``What's Wrong with Descriptionism and Millianism: Reply to Littlejohn,'' APA Meeting (San Francisco, California) March 2003.

``Quine Redux,'' Institut für Philosophie, Universität Rostock (Rostock. Germany), May 2002.

``Swimming and Speaking Spanish: How do we know when we know a language?,'' Institut für Philosophie, Universität Rostock (Rostock. Germany), May 2002.

``Interpretation and Reality: Two Queries for Krausz,'' with, Bernard Harrison, APA Meetings (Seattle, Washington) March 2002.

``Kripke's Puzzle, Language, Meaning and Belief,'' Institut für Philosophie, Universität Rostock (Rostock. Germany), 14 June 2000

``Quine's Relativism and Relative Realism,'' Institut für Philosophie, Universität Rostock (Rostock. Germany), 15 June 2000.

``Word and World,'' Works in Progress Series, Tanner Humanities Center, 8 December 1999.

``How Bilingual is Pierre?,'' Institut für Philosophie, Universität Rostock (Rostock Germany), May 1997.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

The bulk of my research is in the philosophy of language, with some, though by no means an exclusive, emphasis on the more linguistic aspects of this field. I am also interested in issues of meaning and reference as they bear on ontological questions Toward this end, I am working on the following more specific topics.

Kripke's `puzzle about belief' as it relates to meaning, language and belief.

Chomsky on knowledge of language, ``mentalism'' and ``brain science''

Dummett's views on the theory of meaning, and the nature of knowledge of language.

Quine on the indeterminacy of translation.

Proper names and a revival of Kneale's so-called `quotation theory' within Linguistics.

Relativism, interpretation and ontology.

I am also working on a project dealing with the issue of memory and the formation of political orthodoxies, from the perspectives of both philosophy and political policy.

I have broad interests in questions of literary representation and literary criticism.

MEMBERSHIPS

Linguistics Society of America

American Philosophical Association

American Association of University Professors