Jaroslav Peregrin

Short Biography

Jaroslav Peregrin's research is located at the intersection of logic, analytic philosophy, and semantics; he has authored papers in these areas for Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Erkenntnis, Journal of Philosophical Logic, Pragmatic and Cognition, Semiotica, Studia Logica, and the Elsevier's Handbook of the Philosophy of Science (see his bibliography at <http://jarda.peregrin.cz/mybibl/mybibl.php>). His book Meaning and Structure (Ashgate, 2001) argues that recent and contemporary (post)analytic philosophy, as developed by Quine, Davidson, Sellars, and Brandom, is largely structuralistic in the very sense in which structuralism was originally tabled by de Saussure; it also indicates that this view of language is not incompatible with formal approaches to semantics. His current research focuses on both logical and philosophical aspects of inferentialism, namely, the view that meaning is essentially a matter of inference. He is a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and a professor of logic at the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy of the Charles University in Prague. As a visiting scholar, he worked at the University of Konstanz in Germany and the University of Pittsburgh in the USA.