I am a Ph.D student in the School of Philosophy at the University of Southern California (USC), working in philosophy of language and theoretical linguistics. I am also managing editor of Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, the philosophy journal edited by the faculty of the USC School of Philosophy.

Research

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My research focuses on the relationship between formal semantics and pragmatics. In my dissertation, I investigate the limits of semantics and logic for demonstratives (words like 'this' and 'that') in natural language. Building on work by Kent Bach, David Kaplan, and Nathan Salmon, among others, I show how we can define validity for utterances, as distinct from expressions, using the formal tools introduced by Kaplan for the investigation of indexicals. This opens up a range of data for our semantic theories of demonstratives.

Papers & Conferences

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Conferences

G. Georgi, "A Case of Mistaken Identity", Rutgers-Princeton Graduate Student Conference in Philosophy, April 2003.

G. Georgi, "Comments on Krizan, 'Definitely Definite Higher Order Paradox'", Northwest Philosophy Conference, October 2004.

G. Georgi, "Comments on Doan, 'Intention, Interpretation, and Social Anti-individualism'", Berkeley-Stanford-Davis Graduate Student Conference in Philosophy, April, 2005

G. Georgi, "Linguistic Intuitions and Linguistic Theory", Berkeley-Stanford-Davis Graduate Student Conference in Philosophy, April, 2005

G. Georgi, "Context and Compositionality: A Reply to Jessica Rett", Berkeley-Stanford-Davis Graduate Student Conference in Philosophy, April, 2007

Papers

G. Georgi, "Contexts, Demonstratives, and Validity." This is a very early sketch of my investigations into the logic of demonstratives.