Richard Gaskin has published on metaphysics, philosophy of language and logic, and history of philosophy, as well as on philosophy of literature, literary theory, and the European literary tradition.
11 Facts About Richard Gaskin
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Richard Gaskin was born in 1960 in Milngavie, Glasgow, and attended Robert Gordon's College, Aberdeen, where his father, Maxwell Richard Gaskin, held the Jaffrey Chair of Political Economy at the University of Aberdeen.
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Richard Gaskin studied literae humaniores at University College, Oxford, and obtained his BA in 1982.
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Richard Gaskin took the BPhil exam in 1986, supervised by John McDowell.
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Richard Gaskin was awarded the DPhil in 1988 for a thesis supervised by Michael Dummett, David Wiggins, and Barry Stroud, entitled Experience, Agency, and the Self.
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From 1988 to 1989 Richard Gaskin spent a year as an Alexander von Humboldt visiting fellow at the University of Mainz, Germany, researching decision-making in classical literature under the Virgilian scholar Antonie Wlosok.
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In Language and World, Richard Gaskin develops the theory of linguistic idealism and defends it against several objections.
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In Tragedy and Redress in Western Literature: A Philosophical Perspective, Richard Gaskin argues that not even the tragic aspects of life are beyond language, an objection commonly raised against the idea that language is omnicompetent to talk about and describe reality.
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Richard Gaskin has translated selections from Apollonius of Rhodes's Greek poem Argonautica into English verse.
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Richard Gaskin has written on ancient and on medieval philosophy, and on Wittgenstein.
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Richard Gaskin maintains a website on which he mounts recordings of English, German, and Latin poetry.