Sage Rhys

  • Graduate Student
At the moment, my biggest interests are (subject to change) in the philosophy of language and linguistics, particularly:
  • changes to the lexicon, especially neologisms,
  • conditions for linguistic knowledge,
  • dictionaries,
  • words and phrases with multiple meanings (polysemy, ambiguity, and vagueness),
  • mutual intelligibility,
  • the historical development of syntactic and semantic theory, 
  • intuitions in linguistics, 
  • non-literal speech.
I also have some interests in political philosophy, particularly in:
  • non-egalitarian conceptions of justice,
  • the use of values in public deliberation,
  • cosmopolitanism.
Outside of philosophy, I collect and DJ trance music.
 
Prior to joining Pitt in the fall of 2023, I taught math and science to high school students in Boston. I received my BA in Philosophy from Swarthmore College in 2022. Originally, I am from Dallas, TX.