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Mark Richard is an American short story writer, novelist, screenwriter, and poet. He is the author of two award-winning short story collections, The Ice at the Bottom of the World and Charity, a bestselling novel, Fishboy, and House of Prayer No. 2: A Writer's Journey Home.
Professor Mark Richard joined the Department in the Fall of 2010; previously he was the Lenore Stern Professor in the Humanities and Social Sciences at Tufts University. He specializes in philosophy of language, social philosophy philosophical logic, metaphysics, and epistemology.
Mark Richard is an American short story writer, novelist, screenwriter, and poet. He is the author of two award-winning short story collections, The Ice at the Bottom of the World and Charity, a bestselling novel, Fishboy, and House of Prayer No. 2: A Writer's Journey Home.
Mark Richard has 58 books on Goodreads with 10405 ratings. Mark Richard’s most popular book is The Ice at the Bottom of the World: Stories.
Mark Richard currently works at the Department of Philosophy, Harvard University. He writes about the philosophy of language and logic, metaphysics and epistemology, and other things.
Oct 1, 1998 · Incredibly inventive writing, it is, with characters as varied as children in a hospital charity ward, low-level drug-smuggling murderers, a near-homicidal insomniac and a beach vampire. Whatever the subject matter, his stories are always transcendent, and often take on the quality of myth.
Dec 2, 2010 · Philosopher probes how our sense of meaning works. Mark Richard has the look of a distinguished hipster, with spiky salt-and-pepper hair, edgy, green-framed spectacles, and an earring. Peeking over the top of his black leather boots are socks covered with little white martini glasses.
Mark Richard is the author of two award-winning short story collections, The Ice at the Bottom of the World and Charity, and the novel Fishboy. His short stories and journalism have appeared in the New York Times , The New Yorker , Harper’s , Esquire , Vogue , and GQ .
Professor Mark Richard has recently published a new book, Meanings as Species (Oxford UP), that "offers an original picture of meaning according to which a word's meaning is analogous to the biological lineages we call species."
Mark Richard is a regular faculty at Harvard University, Department of Philosophy. They are interested in Philosophy of Language and Logic and Philosophy of Logic.
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