Ernest orErnie Lepore (born November 20, 1950)^[1] is anAmericanphilosopher andcognitive scientist and a professor ofphilosophy atRutgers University.

Lepore earned hisPh.D. from theUniversity of Minnesota in 1978, and began teaching at theUniversity of Notre Dame before joining the philosophy department atRutgers University in 1981, where he has taught ever since.^[2]

He is well known for his work on thephilosophy of language andmind, sometimes in collaboration withJerry Fodor,Herman Cappelen andKirk Ludwig, as well as his work onphilosophical logic and the philosophy ofDonald Davidson.

• Imagination and Convention: Distinguishing Grammar and Inference in Language, with Matthew Stone (Oxford University Press, 2015)
• Handbook in Philosophy of Language, ed. withB. C. Smith, (Oxford University Press, 2006)
• Insensitive Semantics, withHerman Cappelen (2004, Basil Blackwell)
• Donald Davidson: Truth, Meaning, Rationality in Mind, with Kirk Ludwig (Oxford University Press, 2005)
• Donald Davidson's truth-theoretic Semantics, with Kirk Ludwig (Oxford University Press, 2007),
• Meaning and Argument, with Sam Cumming (Blackwell, 2000)
• Holism: A Shopper's Guide, withJerry Fodor (Blackwell, 1991)
• The Compositionality Papers, with Jerry Fodor (Oxford University Press, 2002)
• What Every Student Should Know withSarah-Jane Leslie (Rutgers Press, 2002).

• Rutgers faculty home page for Dr. Lepore
• Curriculum vitae
• Meaning, truth, language, reality, an interview with 3:AM Magazine

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