Michael Devitt | |
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 Devitt in Warsaw, 2008 | |
| Born | 1938 |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic philosophy Scientific realism |
Main interests | Philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, metaphysics, epistemology |
Notable ideas | Criticism of the transcendental argument against eliminativism |
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Michael Devitt (born 1938) is an Australian philosopher currently teaching at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in New York City. His primary interests include philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, metaphysics and epistemology. His current work involves the philosophy of linguistics, foundational issues in semantics, the semantics of definite descriptions and demonstratives, semantic externalism, and scientific realism.