K. T. Falvey

K. T. Falvey is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research focuses on critiques of Cartesian dualism, emphasizing the social and normative foundations of intentional discourse. He challenges materialist frameworks that retain Cartesian assumptions about the mind's isolation from external reality.

Education: PhD in Philosophy from the University of Minnesota.

Research Interests: Philosophy of Mind and Language, epistemic authority of first-person perspectives, normativity in intentional states, and the legacy of Wittgenstein/Sellars/Putnam traditions. Falvey argues that intentional discourse functions interpretively within social practices rather than as a 'folk science' of behavior.

Publications span 1994-2023, with recurring themes in semantic externalism, self-knowledge, and anti-individualism. His work often engages with skeptical challenges through normative frameworks.

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