# Bernhard Nickel Professor of Philosophy, FAS person email laptop\_windows [Bernhard Nickel's Website](https://scholar.harvard.edu/bernhardnickel) Bernhard Nickel's research centers on the philosophy of language. The general approach is to investigate foundational questions by tracing out the implications of competing positions for relatively specific phenomena. My particular case study is genericity in natural language -- basically the phenomenon that many generalizations we make in ordinary life hold with exceptions. The program is to defend truth-conditional, quantificational semantics for generics. The specific view I'm working out carries a number of commitments with it about fields adjacent to philosophy of language, especially philosophy of mind (conceptual structure) and science (natural kinds). - ## Profile Type [Faculty](/profile-type/faculty)