Abstract: In this paper, I consider whether tenses, temporal indexicals, and other indexicals are contextually dependent on the context of assessment a-contextual rather than, as is usually thought, contextually dependent on the context of utterance u-contextual.
Winner of the 2011 Taylor and Francis prize for Best Paper published in the AJP in 2011.
Parsons, Josh. 2009. “Assessment-Contextual Indexicals.” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 89 (1): 1–17. doi:10.1080/00048400903493530.
Until September 2016 I am a Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy at Corpus Christi College and an Associate Professor in the Oxford Philosophy Faculty. From then on, I'll be a Senior Adviser at the New Zealand Ministry of Transport.
My intellectual interests are mainly in metaphysics, philosophy of language, and ethics, and of course transport policy.
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