Allan Gibbard | |
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| Born | Allan Fletcher Gibbard April 7, 1942 |
| Nationality | American |
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| Thesis | Utilitarianisms and Coordination (1971) |
| Doctoral advisor | John Rawls |
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| Discipline | Philosophy |
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| School or tradition | Analytic philosophy |
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| Website | www-personal |
Allan Fletcher Gibbard (born 1942) is the Richard B. Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.[1] Gibbard has made major contributions to contemporary ethical theory, in particular metaethics, where he has developed a contemporary version of non-cognitivism. He has also published articles in the philosophy of language, metaphysics, and social choice theory: in social choice, he first proved the result known today as Gibbard-Satterthwaite theorem,[2] which had been previously conjectured by Michael Dummett and Robin Farquharson.[3]
- ^ "Allan Gibbard Vita" (PDF). Retrieved 4 June 2023.
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Gibbard1973was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Rudolf Farra and Maurice Salles (October 2006). "An Interview with Michael Dummett: From analytical philosophy to voting analysis and beyond" (PDF). Social Choice and Welfare. 27 (2): 347–364. doi:10.1007/s00355-006-0128-9. S2CID 46164353.