Carl Ginet

Carl Ginet (born 1932) is an American philosopher and Professor Emeritus at Cornell University. His work is primarily in action theory, moral responsibility, free will, and epistemology.

Ginet received his BA from Occidental College in 1954, and his Ph.D. from Cornell in 1960 with a dissertation titled "Reasons, Causes, and Free Will".[1] He joined the Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell in 1971 and retired in 1999. Before Cornell, Ginet was a faculty member of various universities, including Ohio State University, University of Michigan, and University of Rochester.[2]

Ginet is married to Cornell University Professor Emerita Sally McConnell-Ginet.[3]

  1. ^ Ginet's homepage[permanent dead link] at Cornell.
  2. ^ Ginet's profile Archived May 3, 2008, at the Wayback Machine at Cornell.
  3. ^ Nancy Dolittle (May 12, 2010). "A 'retired' McConnell-Ginet as busy as ever with Potter prose, prison program, local theater ... and eggplant". Cornell Chronicle. Cornell University. Retrieved January 7, 2017.