Career
He is a specialist in the philosophy of language and has worked extensively on foundational issues in semantics and on technical and philosophical problems about the compositionality of meaning. Peter Pagin was born in Stockholm and educated at Stockholm University. He received a bachelor"s degree in Philosophy and Mathematics in 1981 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1987 (for a thesis written under the supervision of Dag Prawitz).
From 1987-1991 Pagin held a postdoctoral research position (forskarassistent) and received a Docent degree in 1992.
In 1996 he was a Fellow at The Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies in Social Science (SCASSS), Uppsala. He was made a full Professor in 2002.
