Paul Saka

Paul Saka is an American scholar known for his multi-disciplinary work.

He is a professor of philosophy at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and Associate Editor for the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

[1] With one PhD in linguistics and another PhD in philosophy, his two dissertations argue against truth-conditional semantics and for a mentalist theory of meaning.

The negative part of his program has been sharpened by his “argument from ignorance”.

[2] The positive part of his program includes a pioneering contribution on the semantics of pejorative language,[3] plus work on ambiguity,[4] the liar paradox,[5] the problem of opacity,[6] and quotation and the use-mention distinction.