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Stephen Roy Albert Neale is a British Analytic philosopher and specialist in the philosophy of language who has written extensively about meaning, information, interpretation, and communication, and more generally about issues at the intersection of philosophy and linguistics. Neale is currently Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Linguistics and holder of the John H. Kornblith Family Chair in the Philosophy of Science and Values at the Graduate Center, City University of New York and has previously held positions at Princeton University, University of California, Berkeley, and Rutgers University. He is one of the world’s leading authorities on Bertrand Russell’s Theory of Descriptions, on the philosophies of Paul Grice and Donald Davidson, and on the intricacies of formal arguments in logic known as slingshots. His best known writings are the books Descriptions and Facing Facts, and the articles "Meaning, Grammar, and Indeterminacy", "Paul Grice and the Philosophy of Language", "Term Limits", "No Plagiarism Here!".
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