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Gilbert Harman | |
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Born | May 26, 1938 East Orange, New Jersey, U.S. |
Died | November 13, 2021 (aged 83) |
Era | Contemporary philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Analytic philosophy |
Doctoral advisor | Willard Van Orman Quine |
Doctoral students | Stephen Stich, Joshua Knobe, Daniel Rothschild |
Main interests | Philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, ethics, epistemology |
Notable ideas | Perceptual experience has intentional content Three levels of meaning[1] Situationist critique of virtue ethics[2] Brain in a vat thought experiment |
Gilbert Harman (May 26, 1938[3] – November 13, 2021[4]) was an American philosopher, who taught at Princeton University from 1963[5] until his retirement in 2017.[6] He published widely in philosophy of language, cognitive science, philosophy of mind, ethics, moral psychology, epistemology, statistical learning theory, and metaphysics. He and George Miller co-directed the Princeton University Cognitive Science Laboratory. Harman taught or co-taught courses in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Psychology, Philosophy, and Linguistics.