Michael McCourt

Michael McCourt serves as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Honors at the University Honors Program (UHP). He joined UHP in Spring 2024 and teaches courses such as the first-year seminar Origins and Evolution of Modern Thought. In Spring 2025, he will introduce an upper-level course in Arts and Humanities for Honors students. His affiliation is explicitly with UHP, though the overarching university is not named in the text.

Education:

• BA in Philosophy and English, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• MA in Philosophy, Northern Illinois University
• PhD in Philosophy, University of Maryland, College Park

Research interests span the individuation of word meaning, language’s relationship with thought, psycholinguistic investigations of speech/text processing, and historical philosophical ideas about language and mind. His work integrates empirical methods (e.g., reading-time experiments) with theoretical frameworks in philosophy and linguistics, particularly focusing on Greek and Roman philosophy.

Publications reflect interdisciplinary inquiry: recent work explores semantic internalism and anaphoric expressions, while earlier studies address structural processing mechanisms in language. The 2024 article (forthcoming) bridges philosophical and psycholinguistic perspectives, while the 2020 and 2015 articles emphasize experimental analyses of syntactic and semantic phenomena.

Advising and grants: No specific advisees or grant details are provided in the text. His research includes projects on historical ideas about language and mind, though funding sources are unmentioned.