News feedsDr Daniel Whiting
Philosophy
School of Humanities
University of Southampton
Southampton
SO17 1BJ
Position: Lecturer - Undergraduate Admissions, Careers and Alumni Tutor
Location: 65/1037
Extension: 24541
Telephone: (023) 8059 4541
Fax: (023) 8059 9402
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Research interests
Daniel's principal areas of research are Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind and Wittgenstein. In one way or another, much of his work to date has involved investigating the place of normative considerations - concerning, for example, what a subject should, may or has reason to do - in understanding the natures of language and of the mind.
Along the way, Daniel has worked on such topics as deflationism, externalism, Fregeanism, contextualism, particularism, pragmatism, holism, inferentialism, primitivism and monism. He hopes to work on these and other -isms in the future.
Daniel can be contacted via email at: d.whiting@soton.ac.uk
Selected publications
The Later Wittgenstein on Language, ed. (Palgrave, 2009).
'Should I Believe the Truth?', forthcoming in dialectica.
'Spinoza, the No Shared Attribute thesis, and the Principle of Sufficient Reason', forthcoming in British Journal for the History of Philosophy (2011) 19.
'Leave Truth Alone: on Deflationsim and Contextualism', forthcoming in European Journal of Philosophy (2011) 19.
'Is Meaning Fraught with Ought?', in Pacific Philosophical Quarterly (2009) 90: 535-555.
'The Normativity of Meaning Defended', in Analysis (2007) 67: 133-140.
Full details of Daniel Whiting's publications
Many of Daniel's published and forthcoming articles are available to download as e-Prints below.
Biographical notes
BA (hons), MA, PhD, FHEA
Before taking up his post at Southampton in 2007, Daniel studied and then held a Lectureship at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Reading. Daniel is married to Hayley, currently the Hugh Sinclair Project Archivist at the University of Reading, and they have a son, Elliot.
| Module title | Module code | Discipline | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aesthetics | PHIL2001 | Philosophy | Course leader |
| Contemporary Philosophy of Thought and Language | PHIL3026 | Philosophy | Course leader |
| History of Philosophy II: The Rise of Modern Philosophy | PHIL2026 | Philosophy | Course leader |
| Classic Texts in Philosophy | PHIL6004 | Philosophy | Tutor |
Publications from e–Prints Soton
 | Whiting, Daniel (2009) Particularly general and generally particular: language, rules and meaning. Logique et Analyse, 53, 1-16. (In Press) |
| Whiting, Daniel (2009) Is meaning fraught with ought? Pacific Philosophical Quarterly (In Press) |
| Whiting, Daniel (2009) Leave truth alone: on deflationism and contextualism. European Journal of Philosophy, 19 (In Press) |
| Whiting, Daniel (2009) Should I believe the truth? Dialectica (In Press) |
| Whiting, Daniel (2009) Spinoza, the No Shared Attribute thesis, and the principle of sufficient reason. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 19 (In Press) |
| Whiting, Daniel (2008) Meaning holism and de re ascription. Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 38, (4), 575-599. (doi:10.1353/cjp.0.0033) |
| Whiting, Daniel J. (2008) Conservatives and racists: inferential role semantics and pejoratives. Philosophia, 36, (3), 375-388. (doi:10.1007/s11406-007-9109-1) |
| Whiting, Daniel (2008) Particular and general: Wittgenstein, linguistic rules and context. In, Whiting, Daniel (ed.) The Later Wittgenstein on Language. London, UK, Palgrave. (Philosophers in Depth). (In Press) |
| Whiting, Daniel (2008) Between old and new: Brandom's analytic pragmatism. International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 17 (In Press) |
| Whiting, Daniel (2008) The use of 'use'. Grazer Philosophische Studien, 76, 135-147. |
| Whiting, Daniel (2008) On epistemic conceptions of meaning: use, meaning and normativity. European Journal of Philosophy (doi:10.1111/j.1468-0378.2008.00320.x) |
| Whiting, Daniel (2008) The normativity of meaning (steadfastly) defended: reply to Glüer and Wikforss. Unpublished manuscript, 1-9. |
| Whiting, Daniel (2007) Defending semantic generalism. Analysis, 67, (296), 303-311. (doi:10.1111/j.1467-8284.2007.00696.x) |
| Whiting, Daniel (2007) Fregean sense and anti-individualism. Philosophical Books, 48, (3), 233-240. (doi:10.1111/j.1468-0149.2007.00446.x) |
| Whiting, Daniel (2007) Inferentialism, representationalism and derogatory words. International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 15, (2), 191-205. (doi:10.1080/09672550701383483) |
| Whiting, Daniel (2007) The normativity of meaning defended. Analysis, 67, (294), 133-140. (doi:10.1111/j.1467-8284.2007.00663.x) |