Ethan Nowak
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Academic Appointments
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Assistant Professor, Philosophy
Program Affiliations
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Symbolic Systems Program
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5141-3134Current Research and Scholarly Interests
Philosophy of language, social and political philosophy, East Asian philosophy
2026-27 Courses
- How to be a Phil Pro: Professionalization in Academic Philosophy
PHIL 400 (Aut) - Linguistic Justice
PHIL 181C, PHIL 281C (Win) - Topics in The Contemporary Philosophy of Language
PHIL 382N (Aut) -
Independent Studies (2)
- Independent Study
SYMSYS 196 (Spr) - Individual Work for Graduate Students
PHIL 240 (Spr)
- Independent Study
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Prior Year Courses
2025-26 Courses
- Linguistic Justice
PHIL 181C, PHIL 281C (Spr) - Philosophy and Literature
CLASSICS 42, COMPLIT 181, ENGLISH 81, FRENCH 181, GERMAN 181, ILAC 181, ITALIAN 181, PHIL 81, SLAVIC 181 (Spr) - Philosophy of Language
PHIL 181A, PHIL 281A (Aut) - Preservation Ethics
PHIL 382 (Aut)
2024-25 Courses
- PhD Seminar: Topics in the Philosophy of Language
PHIL 381E (Win) - Philosophy of Language
PHIL 181A, PHIL 281A (Aut) - Social and Political Philosophy of Language
PHIL 181C, PHIL 281C (Spr)
- Linguistic Justice
Stanford Advisees
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Doctoral Dissertation Reader (AC)
Sarah Brophy -
Doctoral Dissertation Advisor (AC)
Kelly Ma
All Publications
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Contrastive signaling without counterparts
INQUIRY-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY
2025
View details for DOI 10.1080/0020174X.2025.2562427
View details for Web of Science ID 001585714600001
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SOCIOLINGUISTIC VARIATION, SLURS, AND SPEECH ACTS
JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY
2025; 122 (7): 317-345
View details for DOI 10.5840/jphil2025122715
View details for Web of Science ID 001684284000001
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Poetic Injustice
EPISTEME-A JOURNAL OF INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIAL EPISTEMOLOGY
2024; 21 (3): 856-870
View details for DOI 10.1017/epi.2022.47
View details for Web of Science ID 000943877900001
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Sociolinguistic Variation, Speech Acts, and Discursive Injustice
PHILOSOPHICAL QUARTERLY
2023; 73 (4): 1024-1045
View details for DOI 10.1093/pq/pqac063
View details for Web of Science ID 000875748100001
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Complex demonstratives, hidden arguments, and presupposition
SYNTHESE
2021; 198 (4): 2865-2900
View details for DOI 10.1007/s11229-019-02250-5
View details for Web of Science ID 000641858800002
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META-METASEMANTICS, OR THE QUEST FOR THE ONE TRUE METASEMANTICS
PHILOSOPHICAL QUARTERLY
2022; 72 (1): 135-154
View details for DOI 10.1093/pq/pqab001
View details for Web of Science ID 000745773700008
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Language Loss and Illocutionary Silencing
MIND
2020; 129 (515): 831-866
View details for DOI 10.1093/mind/fzz051
View details for Web of Science ID 000593115600005
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Really Complex Demonstratives: A Dilemma
ERKENNTNIS
2022; 87 (4): 1683-1706
View details for DOI 10.1007/s10670-020-00268-7
View details for Web of Science ID 000534678700002
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Who's Your Ideal Listener?
AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY
2021; 99 (2): 257-270
View details for DOI 10.1080/00048402.2020.1741658
View details for Web of Science ID 000532240100001
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Discourse and method
LINGUISTICS AND PHILOSOPHY
2020; 43 (2): 119-138
View details for DOI 10.1007/s10988-019-09266-7
View details for Web of Science ID 000520437400001
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No context, no content, no problem
MIND & LANGUAGE
2021; 36 (2): 189-220
View details for DOI 10.1111/mila.12273
View details for Web of Science ID 000510462700001
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MULTICULTURALISM, AUTONOMY, AND LANGUAGE PRESERVATION
ERGO-AN OPEN ACCESS JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY
2019; 6: 303-333
View details for DOI 10.3998/ergo.12405314.0006.011
View details for Web of Science ID 000472074900001