RAY BUCHANAN was the Most Valuable Philosopher on his high school baseball team and he has a trophy to prove it. Encouraged by this early accolade, Ray went on to receive a BA in philosophy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he excelled both in badminton and bowling.

Ray's primary philosophical interests include the philosophy of language, mind and logic. In particular, he is interested in issues surrounding meaning, truth and the pragmatics and semantics of natural language. In his senior honors thesis, Ray defended Tyler Burge's view (in "Reference and Proper Names") that proper names are demonstrative predicate constructions. Subsequently, Ray has been thinking about contextually sensitive quantificational and referential devices more generally (for example, incomplete descriptions and complex demonstrative phrases). Other recent topics of interest include semantic competence and explanation in the cognitive sciences.

Aside from philosophy, Ray enjoys skateboarding, watching baseball and hanging out with his very little sister Frances.