Philosophy Faculty

Chris Hill received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1973. Since then he has taught at the University of Pittsburgh, Case Western Reserve University, the University of Michigan, the University of Arkansas, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His fields of specialization are philosophy of mind and philosophy of language, and he has written many articles and three books about topics in these areas, the books being Sensations (Cambridge University Press, 1991), Thought and World (Cambridge, 2002), and Consciousness (Cambridge, 2009).

Hill has been a fellow at the National Humanities Center and has held a variety of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is also a past editor of the journal Philosophical Topics.