Associate Professor
B.A. (OXON)
Specialization: Metaphysics, Semantics, Philosophy of Language, Marx
Office: Watson Hall 328
Office Hours: N/A
Phone: (613) 533.6000 ext. 77036
E-mail: laycockh@queensu.ca
Website: http://post.queensu.ca/~laycockh/index.html
Other Website: Ontology, Fluidity and Stuff
Henry Laycock sometimes teaches courses on Aristotle, Marx, the philosophy of language and metaphysics. He is preoccupied with issues at the intersection of semantics and metaphysics. His current research is focused on the nature of non-singularity and the semantics of non-count nouns, in relationship to the notion of an 'ideal language' or 'canonical notation'. He was a Visting Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge and is a Life Member of that College. He is the author of Words Without Objects (Oxford, 2006). He has delivered talks in Austria, Brazil, the Czech Republic, Iceland, India, and the United Kingdom, as well as across North America. His articles have appeared in Synthese, Philosophy, Principia, the Philosophical Review, Dialogue, the Canadian Journal of Philosophy, the Journal of Ethics and the Stanford (online) Encyclopedia of Philosophy.