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.