Berit Brogaard

Short Biography

Berit Brogaard's research is located at the intersection of philosophy of language, philosophical logic, metaphysics and epistemology; she has authored or co-authored papers which have appeared in various journals and edited volumes, including: Noûs, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Philosophical Quarterly, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Philosophical Perspectives, American Philosophical Quarterly, Analysis, Mind and Language, The Monist, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Synthese, and Canadian Journal of Philosophy. Her book manuscript Transient Truths: An Essay in the Metaphysics of Propositions is a defense of David Kaplan's thesis that tenses are modal operators on temporal content. Current research involves research on epistemic modals, counterpossibles, conditionals, concealed questions, knowledge-wh, attitude ascriptions, and epistemic two-dimensionalism. She currently holds a research fellowship from the RSSS Philosophy Program and Centre for Consciousness at the Australian National University, and is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Missouri, St. Louis. Before coming to University of Missouri, Brogaard taught at Southern Illinois University. She holds a B.A. from University of Copenhagen and a Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo.