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He chaired the Princeton Philosophy Department from 1999-2005, a period during which it continued to be regarded as the leading department of philosophy in the United States and elsewhere. [42] In 2001 Johnston received Princeton University’s Medal of Service [ 11 ] for his work on the Presidential Search Committee that lead to the ...
Allan Marquand (/ ˈ m ɑːr k w ən d /; December 10, 1853 – September 24, 1924) was an art historian at Princeton University and a curator of the Princeton University Art Museum. Marquand is notable as one of the foremost art historians and critics of his time, and helped to popularize and establish the field in elite college campuses.
Richard McKay Rorty (October 4, 1931 – June 8, 2007) was an American philosopher and historian of ideas.Educated at the University of Chicago and Yale University, Rorty's academic career included appointments as the Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University, the Kenan Professor of Humanities at the University of Virginia, and as a professor of comparative literature at Stanford ...
History of early modern philosophy and science, Descartes, Leibniz Daniel Garber (born 1949) is an American philosopher. He is the A. Watson Armour, III, University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University . [ 1 ]
Soames specializes in the philosophy of language and the history of analytic philosophy. He has published books and articles primarily on issues concerning truth , reference , and meaning. Fairly early in his career, he and Nathan Salmon edited a book entitled Propositions and Attitudes (1989), a collection of readings that investigates ...
Cooper earned his Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1967 and taught there until 1971, when he accepted a tenured position in philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, where he taught until he moved to Princeton in 1981. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2001. [2]
Arthur Danto, The Transfiguration of the Commonplace: A Philosophy of Art, 1981; Noël Carroll, The Philosophy of Horror, or Paradoxes of the Heart, 1990; Kendall Walton, Mimesis as Make-Believe: On The Foundations of the Representational Arts, 1990; Richard Shusterman, Pragmatist Aesthetics: Living Beauty, Rethinking Art, 1992/2000
Noël Carroll (born 1947) is an American philosopher considered to be one of the leading figures in contemporary philosophy of art.Although Carroll is best known for his work in the philosophy of film (he is a proponent of cognitive film theory), he has also published journalism, works on philosophy of art generally, theory of media, and also philosophy of history.