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21st-century philosophy: Region: Western philosophy: Institutions: Princeton University: Thesis: Causation in Metaphysics and Moral Theory (2002) Doctoral advisor: Ned Hall: Other academic advisors: Elizabeth Harman, Carolina Sartorio, Robert Stalnaker, Judith Thomson
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]
Bastiaan Cornelis van Fraassen (/ v æ n ˈ f r ɑː s ən /; born 5 April 1941) is a Dutch-American philosopher noted for his contributions to philosophy of science, epistemology and formal logic. He is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University and the McCosh Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Princeton University.
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.
The book shed new light on the split between analytic philosophy and Continental philosophy. [ 7 ] In his book Dynamics of Reason , Friedman "provides the fullest account to date not only of [his] neo-Kantian, historicized, dynamical conception of relativized a priori principles of mathematics and physics, but also of the pivotal role that [he ...
Sarah-Jane Leslie is the Class of 1943 Professor of Philosophy and former Dean of the Graduate School at Princeton University, [1] where she is also affiliated faculty in the Department of Psychology, [2] the Kahneman-Treisman Center for Behavioral Science and Public Policy, [3] the Program in Cognitive Science, the Program in Linguistics, and the University Center for Human Values.
Political philosophy, Social ontology, Philosophy of mind, Ethics Philip Noel Pettit AC (born 1945) is an Irish philosopher and political theorist . He is the Laurance Rockefeller University Professor of Human Values at Princeton University and also Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University .