Gilbert Harman
Gilbert Harman ( born 1938 ) is an American philosopher. He teaches at Princeton University and publishes on issues of ethics, epistemology, metaphysics and the philosophies of language and mind. The Thinker developed inter alia a very influential position on the philosophy of logic, the logical and psychological processes greatly from one another and denies their normative Analogisierbarkeit.
Life
Harman was educated at Swarthmore College and Harvard University, where he received his doctorate in philosophy in 1964. His daughter, Elizabeth Harman, is also a philosopher and philosophical works at the Institute and at the Center for Human Values at Princeton University.
Work
With his doctor father Willard Van Orman Quine divides Harman both of the opinion that a smooth transition between philosophy and (natural) science is, and his skepticism about the philosophical concept analysis. Harman represents a semantic conceptual roles (CRS ), the structure and function of terms understands inferentially.
The Thinker denies that there was reliable bridge between principles of logic and mathematics on the one hand and the daily weighing of reasons, on the other hand. This is accompanied by the position, the logic can not have normativity from everyday thinking.
As a moral philosopher Harman gained notoriety primarily for his contributions to anti-realism, and ethical relativism. A comprehensive presentation of his moral positions can be found in his published 1996 work Moral Relativism and Moral Objectivity, in which Judith Jarvis Thomson also one of his critics has his say.
In 2005, Harman was in Paris awarded the Jean Nicod Prize.
Publications
Monographs:
- Thought ( Princeton, 1973), ISBN 0-691-07188-8
- The Nature of Morality: An Introduction to Ethics ( Oxford, 1977), ISBN 0-19-502143-6
- Change in View: Principles of Reasoning (MIT, 1986), ISBN 0-262-58091-8
- Scepticism and the definition of Knowledge ( Garland, 1990)
- ( with Judith Jarvis Thomson), Moral Relativism and Moral Objectivity ( Blackwell, 1996), ISBN 0-631-19211-5
- Reasoning, Meaning and Mind ( Clarendon, 1999), ISBN 0-19-823802-9
- Explaining Value and Other Essays in Moral Philosophy ( Clarendon, 2000), ISBN 0-19-823804-5
- ( with Sanjeev Kulkarni ), Reliable Reasoning: Induction and Statistical Learning Theory (MIT Press, 2007 )
Editorial Boards:
- ( with Donald Davidson), Semantics of Natural Language ( D. Reidel, 1972)
- On Noam Chomsky: Critical Essays ( Anchor, 1974)
- ( with Donald Davidson), The Logic of Grammar ( Dickenson, 1975)
- Conceptions of the Human Mind: Essays in Honor of George A. Miller (Laurence Erlbaum, 1993)