21 Facts About Peter Ludlow

Peter Ludlow, who writes under the pseudonyms Urizenus Sklar and EJ Spode, is an American philosopher.

Peter Ludlow has worked on the application of analytic philosophy of language to topics in epistemology, metaphysics, and logic, among other areas.

In recent years Peter Ludlow has written nonacademic essays on hacktivist culture and related phenomena such as WikiLeaks and the conceptual limits of blockchain technologies.

Peter Ludlow has written literature and poetry under various pseudonyms, most frequently under the name EJ Spode, which he has used to experiment with various forms of dialect prose and poetry and a genre of literature that he has called Hysterical Surrealism.

Peter Ludlow has taught as a professor of philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, the University of Michigan, the University of Toronto and Northwestern University.

Peter Ludlow received his PhD in philosophy from Columbia University in 1985 under the direction of Charles Parsons, but studied with Noam Chomsky and James Higginbotham at MIT.

Peter Ludlow worked for a year on projects related to natural language processing as an engineer at Honeywell from 1985 to 1986.

Peter Ludlow was a professor of philosophy at the University of Michigan from 2002 to 2007, a professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto from 2007 to 2008 and a professor of philosophy at the Northwestern University from 2008 to 2015.

Peter Ludlow has been a visiting fellow at King's College London in 1997 and a visiting professor at the Rutgers University Center for Cognitive Science in 2012, where he taught a course on hacktivism.

Peter Ludlow has held visiting positions at several other universities in the United States and Europe.

The third theme is what Peter Ludlow calls the principle of "methodological minimalism".

Peter Ludlow has subsequently developed these ideas in collaboration with the linguists Richard Larson and Marcel den Dikken.

Peter Ludlow rejects the "common coin" view of word meaning, and argues that word meanings are negotiated on the fly as conversational partners build little microlanguages together.

Peter Ludlow initially argued that there were implicit argument positions for standards of knowledge.

Peter Ludlow has written a series of papers on the logical form of determiners and has pursued the idea that their most interesting properties can be given purely formal or syntactic accounts.

Peter Ludlow revives the medieval project by combining it with the descriptive tools of contemporary Chomskyan linguistics and recent technical work in formal logic.

Peter Ludlow has extended this basic idea to argue that perspectival properties are ubiquitous and ineliminable, both from physics and from our attempts to explain human action and emotion.

Peter Ludlow has been a highly prominent, and sometimes controversial, figure in several virtual worlds communities, especially The Sims Online and Second Life, since the early 2000s.

Peter Ludlow has been accused by Scott Jennings and Catherine Fitzpatrick of giving griefers "his blessing" through his newspaper, The Alphaville Herald.

Peter Ludlow resigned from his position at Northwestern in November 2015 after a university Title IX Officer found that he violated the University's Title IX policies.

Peter Ludlow denied any wrongdoing and said the relationship was consensual, lasting three months.