Dr Laura Schroeter
PhD, University of Michigan
Contact
E: laura dot schroeter at unimelb.edu.au
T: 03 8344 7120
Academic Profile
Laura Schroeter joined the Melbourne philosophy program in 2007. She is currently an Australian Research Fellow, funded through the Australian Research Council. Before coming to Melbourne, she held positions at the Research School of Social Sciences (RSSS) Australian National University, Monash University, and the University of Fribourg.
Laura's primary research project is focused on concepts, reference-determination and public language meaning. Many of her papers argue against 2D semanticists' attempts to revive the traditional approach to concepts and meanings. She is currently working on an alternative model, the jazz model of meaning, which helps explain why subjects' ability to identify the reference of their words does not require implicit knowledge of reference-fixing conditions. A related research interest involves work on moral and other normative concepts. She is working on a book on normative concepts and moral psychology with François Schroeter.
Selected Publications
On 2D Semantics
- 'Against Apriori Reductions', Philosophical Quarterly 56 (2006): 562-586.
- 'The Rationalist Foundations of Chalmers' 2-D Semantics', Philosophical Studies 118 (2004): 227-255.
- 'Considering Empty Worlds as Actual', Australasian Journal of Philosophy 83 (2005): 331-342.
- 'Gruesome Diagonals', Philosophers' Imprint 3 (2003): 1-25.
- 'Jackson's Classical Model of Meaning' (with John Bigelow), forthcoming in Mind, Worlds, and Conditionals: Themes from the Philosophy of Frank Jackson, Ian Ravenscroft, ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
On Concept Individuation:
- 'Why be an Anti-Individualist?' Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 77 (2008): 105-141.
- 'The Illusion of Transparency' Australasian Journal of Philosophy 85 (2007): 1-22.
On Metaethics:
- 'A Third Way in Metaethics', (with François Schroeter) forthcoming in Noûs.
- 'Is Gibbard a Realist?' (with François Schroeter), Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 1 (2005): 1-18.
- 'A Slim Semantics for Thin Moral Terms?' (with François Schroeter), Australasian Journal of Philosophy 81 (2003):191-207.