Dr Derek Ball

Dr Derek Ball

Senior Lecturer

Phone
+44 (0)1334 46 1795
Email
db71@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Research areas

Dr Ball's research interests include a wide range of issues in the philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and related areas.  He has written on foundational issues in semantics and the foundations of linguistic meaning and on the nature of concepts and concept possession, and has applied views in these areas to debates about the nature of consciousness, about epistemology, and elsewhere.  His research also includes projects in developmental and comparative psychology.

PhD supervision

  • Nick Allen
  • Isabella Bartoli
  • Sabina Dominguez Parrado
  • Yoshinari Hattori
  • Rasmus Overmark
  • Amr Salih
  • Lara Scheibli
  • Haoxu Wang

Selected publications

  • Ball, D. N., 15 Feb 2024, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 208 p.

    Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • Open access
    Ball, D. N., 23 Jan 2020, Conceptual Engineering and Conceptual Ethics. Burgess, A., Cappelen, H. & Plunkett, D. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 36-58

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • Open access
    Rabern, B. & Ball, D., 22 Mar 2019, In: Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 98, 2, p. 392-416

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Ball, D. & Huvenes, T. T., Mar 2022, In: Philosophical Studies. 179, 3, p. 759–776 18 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Kersken, V., Zhang, D., Gomez, J.-C., Seed, A. M. & Ball, D. N., 1 Aug 2020, In: Animal Behavior and Cognition. 7, 3, p. 343-364 22 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review