Rosanna Keefe

(BA, PhD Cambridge)

School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities

Professor of Philosophy

Head of Department

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r.keefe@sheffield.ac.uk

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Rosanna Keefe
School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities
45 Victoria Street
Sheffield
S3 7QB
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Rosanna came to Sheffield in October 1999 after three years as a Research Fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge. Her Theories of Vagueness, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2000. This book investigates the vagueness of natural language, asking such questions as what the logic and semantics of vague language are, and with what methodology we should construct and assess theories of vagueness. She defends a supervaluationist theory of vagueness.

Rosanna's main philosophical interests lie within the philosophy of logic and language and metaphysics. She is currently working on issues concerning logical consequence

Publications

Books

  • Keefe R (2000) Theories of vagueness. Cambridge Univ Press. RIS download Bibtex download

Edited books

  • Keefe R & Smith P (Ed.) (1996) Vagueness: A Reader. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. RIS download Bibtex download

Journal articles

Chapters

  • Keefe R (2023) Context, Vagueness, and the Sorites: Comments on Shapiro, Liars and Heaps: New Essays on Paradox (pp. 73-83). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Keefe R (2021) Prefaces, Sorites and Guides to Reasoning, Conditionals, Paradox, and Probability (pp. 212-226). Oxford University Press RIS download Bibtex download
  • Keefe R & Leech J (2018) Essentialism and Logical Consequence In Fred-Rivera I & Leech J (Ed.), Being Necessary: Themes of Ontology and Modality from the Work of Bob Hale (pp. 60-76). Oxford University Press RIS download Bibtex download
  • Keefe R (2018) Pluralisms: Logic, Truth and Domain-Specificity, Pluralisms in Truth and Logic (pp. 429-452). Springer International Publishing RIS download Bibtex download
  • Keefe R (2010) Relative Validity and Vagueness In Lear J & Oliver A (Ed.), The Force of Argument: 1 (pp. 127-143). Taylor & Francis RIS download Bibtex download
  • Keefe R (2010) Supervaluationism, Indirect Speech Reports, and Demonstratives In Dietz R & Moruzzi S (Ed.), Cuts and Clouds: Vaguenesss, its Nature and its Logic (pp. 360-372). Oxford Univ Press RIS download Bibtex download
  • Keefe R (2003) Context, Vagueness, and the Sorites, Liars and Heaps New Essays on Paradox University of Hawaii Press RIS download Bibtex download

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