Elisabeth Camp

Elisabeth Camp is a professor of philosophy at Rutgers University. Camp's work has focused on forms of thought and speech that do not fit standard propositional models.

Education and career As an undergraduate, Camp attended the University of Michigan, graduating in 1993 and double-majoring in philosophy and English. Brian Leiter viewed Camp's move to Rutgers as cementing the reputation of Rutgers' philosophy department as a leader in the fields of philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and aesthetics. She has also written on philosophical issues involving concepts as well as on animal cognition. Camp has also made an effort to counter arguments used against the classical Gricean implicature account of metaphor, making a number of arguments intended to show that contextualist approaches to metaphor are flawed and that it is in fact possible for what is meant by a speaker to differ from what is literally said by a speaker, even in situations where the speaker appears to be quite candid in their speech.

Publications Camp has published a number of peer-reviewed papers in journals such as Noûs, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Philosophical Studies and Philosophical Quarterly. She has also contributed chapters to a number of books, including chapters in A Companion to Donald Davidson (part of the Blackwell Companions to Philosophy series,) and Concepts: New Directions.