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His work covered topics including the philosophy of biology, the philosophy of informatics, the philosophy of value and others. His most popular book is The Gnosis of Princeton in which he presents his own philosophical views under the pretence that he was representing the views of an imaginary group of American scientists.
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]
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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 ...
Garber earned all his degrees from Harvard University including his Ph.D. in philosophy in 1975 under the direction of Roderick Firth and Hilary Putnam. He taught at the University of Chicago from 1975 until joining the Princeton faculty in 2002. He is an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. [3]
2011-12 (Princeton): Stephen Greenblatt—"Shakespeare and the Shape of a Life: The Uses of Life Stories" 2011-12 (Yale): Lisa Jardine—"The Two Cultures: Still Under Consideration" 2011 (Yale): Rebecca Newberger Goldstein—"The Ancient Quarrel: Philosophy and Literature" and "The Ancient Quarrel: Philosophy and Literature," [14]
His interests include logic, philosophy of mathematics and selected topics in metaethics and philosophy of mind. He is the author of numerous articles on logic, philosophy of mathematics, and the history of analytic philosophy. In 2012, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. [1] He is the brother of Barbara Burgess.
In his essay, "Art and Objecthood," published in 1967, Fried argued that Minimalism's focus on the viewer's experience, rather than the relational properties of the work of art exemplified by modernism, made the work of art indistinguishable from one's general experience of the world. Minimalism (or "literalism" as Fried called it) offered an ...