About
Derek Ball is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews, affiliated with the Arché Philosophical Research Centre and the Global Research Centre for Diverse Intelligences. He contributes to the St Andrews SETI Post-Detection Hub and engages in interdisciplinary research.
- Research Focus: Philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, semantic theory, conceptual engineering, and comparative psychology.
- Key Projects: 'What Kind of Mind?' (2018-2019) and 'Rethinking Mind and Meaning' (2014-2016), funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
- Public Engagement: Delivered workshops with Kingsbarns Primary School (2016) to communicate research on animal and infant minds.
- Collaborations: Partnered with international researchers in cognitive science and linguistics.
- Publications: Notable works include Definition and Dispute: A Defense of Temporal Externalism (2024) and research on metasemantic ethics, semantic accommodation, and nonhuman cognition.
- Supervision: Currently advising PhD students including Nick Allen, Isabella Bartoli, and Sabina Dominguez Parrado.
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