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California State University, Long Beach

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5.05/4/2026

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Nellie Wieland is a Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at California State University, Long Beach. She holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of California, San Diego. Her areas of specialization, as listed on the department faculty page, include Philosophy of Fiction, Applied Metaphysics (especially Agency), Social Philosophy, and Philosophy of Language. Wieland's research interests are distributed between the philosophy of language and normative matters. She writes about quotation and reporting practices, the metaphysics of language and linguistic entities, pragmatics, and silencing. Her work also covers the obligations of parents to care for their children, autonomy, agency, and objectification. More recently, she has focused on fiction and the work of J.L. Austin, including linguistic phenomena in fictional contexts and the use of fiction in ordinary speech. She describes her research as including the philosophy of language, atypical agency, and the intersection of language and agency with social phenomena, such as the authority of pornographers, context-sensitive language, pragmatic theory, theories of quotation and indirect reports, and the history of speech act theory.