Gilbert Harman

Gilbert Harman (born 1938) is a contemporary philosopher teaching at Princeton University who has published widely in Ethics, Epistemology, Metaphysics, and the philosophies of Language and Mind. Like his Ph.D. advisor Quine, he is well-known for his belief that philosophy and science are continuous, and for his skepticism about conceptual analysis. As a moral philosopher, he is best-known for his explanatory argument for moral anti-realism and for his defence of ethical relativism, most recently and comprehensively in Moral Relativism and Moral Objectivity (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996). More recently, he has attacked the idea that people have set characters of the sort that could ground virtue ethics. He was awarded the Jean Nicod Prize in Paris in 2005.

He was educated at Swarthmore College and Harvard University, where he earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy.

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Monographs:

Thought (Princeton,1973) ISBN 0691071888
The Nature of Morality: An Introduction to Ethics (Oxford,1977) ISBN 0195021436
Change in View: Principles of Reasoning (MIT,1986) ISBN 0262580918
Scepticism and the Definition of Knowledge (Garland,1990) is Professor Harman's doctoral dissertation which was submitted to the Harvard University in 1964
With Judith Jarvis Thomson, Moral Relativism and Moral Objectivity (Blackwell,1996) ISBN 0631192115
Reasoning, Meaning, and Mind (Clarendon,1999) ISBN 0198238029
Explaining Value and Other Essays in Moral Philosophy (Clarendon,2000) ISBN 0198238045

Edited:

With Donald Davidson, Semantics of Natural Language (D. Reidel,1972)
On Noam Chomsky: Critical Essays (Anchor,1974)
With Donald Davidson, The Logic of Grammar (Dickenson,1975)
Conceptions of the Human Mind: Essays in Honor of George A. Miller (Laurence Erlbaum,1993)

External links

http://www.princeton.edu/~harman/

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