Richard Gaskin

Richard Maxwell Gaskin (born 8 May 1960) is a British philosopher who is a professor at the University of Liverpool. He 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. Gaskin received his Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Philosophy, and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in classics and philosophy at University College, Oxford, and has held academic posts at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, as well as at the University of Sussex. Gaskin is the author of many published articles and nine books, including: *Language and World: A Defence of Linguistic Idealism* (2020), *Tragedy and Redress in Western Literature: a Philosophical Perspective* (2018), *Language, Truth, and Literature: a Defence of Literary Humanism* (2013), *The Unity of the Proposition* (2008), *Experience and the World's Own Language: a Critique of John McDowell's Empiricism* (2006), and *The Sea Battle and the Master Argument: Aristotle and Diodorus Cronus on the metaphysics of the future* (1995).