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This is John Kearns’ homepage. You can click the items above to view his CV, but descriptions of the courses he is currently teaching and those he will teach next semester are not currently listed, nor can papers presenting results of his current research be accessed at present.
My research interests include logic, philosophy of logic, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind. All of these areas are approached from a speech act, or language act, perspective. At present, I am devoting all my energies to the development of illocutionary logic, also called the logic of speech acts. This area was pioneered by John Searle and Daniel Vanderveken, but my approach is significantly different from theirs. According to them, illocutionary logic is a kind of supplement or appendix to standard logic, while according to me, what has been considered to be standard logic is a proper part of the more comprehensive area illocutionary logic. Published papers giving results in illocutionary logic are listed in my CV.