Tsohatzidis Savas


Rank: 
Professor
Tel.: 
2310 997105
Office: 
302 o.b.
Office Hours: 
Thursday 3-4, Friday 6.30-7.30

Savas L. Tsohatzidis received his doctorate from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, in 1984, and is Professor of General Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language in the Faculty of Philosophy of Aristotle University since 1997. His main research interests are in analytic philosophy of language, the semantics and pragmatics of natural languages, and the history and philosophy of linguistics.

He is the author of Truth, Force, and Knowledge in Language: Essays on Semantic and Pragmatic Topics (Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter, 2020) and the editor of Interpreting J. L. Austin: Critical Essays (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018),  John Searle’s Philosophy of Language: Force, Meaning, and Mind (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), Intentional Acts and Institutional Facts: Essays on John Searle’s Social Ontology (Berlin: Springer, 2007),  Foundations of Speech Act Theory: Philosophical and Linguistic Perspectives (London & New York: Routledge, 1994), and Meanings and Prototypes: Studies in Linguistic Categorization (London & New York: Routledge, 1990).

He has published in Mind, Analysis, Logique et Analyse, Erkenntnis, Linguistics and Philosophy, Logic and Logical Philosophy, Journal of Applied Non-Classical Logics,  Philosophical Investigations,  Journal of Philosophical Research, The Philosophical Forum, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, Acta Analytica, Linguistics, Studies in Language, Language Sciences, Linguistische Berichte, Word, Language and Communication, Syntax, Cognitive Linguistics, Pragmatics and Cognition, Journal of Pragmatics, Semiotica, and other academic journals.