Dilip Ninan

Dilip Ninan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Tufts University, affiliated with the School of Arts and Sciences. He holds a PhD from MIT, a BPhil and MSc from the University of Oxford, and a BA from the University of Western Ontario. Prior to Tufts, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of St Andrews (2015–2018). His research focuses on formal semantics, philosophy of language, metaphysics, and epistemology, with notable work on de se attitudes, personal identity, and epistemic modality. He co-directs the Linguistics Minor at Tufts and teaches courses in semantics, philosophy of language, and modal logic.

Notable awards include the Philosopher’s Annual recognition for his 2018 paper 'Quantification and Epistemic Modality' and a 2020–2021 research fellowship at the Paris Institute for Advanced Study. His publications span journals like Philosophical Review, Mind, and Philosophers' Imprint, addressing topics such as assertion norms, branching time semantics, and taste predicates. He has also served as Editor-in-Chief of Linguistics and Philosophy (2019–2024).