Gilbert Harman
Gilbert Harman | |
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 Harman as a student in 1960 | |
| Born | May 26, 1938 East Orange, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Died | November 13, 2021 (aged 83) Princeton, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Education | |
| Education | Swarthmore College (BA) Harvard University (PhD) |
| Willard Van Orman Quine | |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| Analytic philosophy | |
| Institutions | Princeton University |
Doctoral students | James Dreier, Joshua Knobe, Graham Oppy, Daniel Rothschild, Stephen Stich |
Main interests | Philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, ethics, epistemology |
Notable ideas | Intentionalism about perceptual experience Three levels of meaning Situationist critique of virtue ethics Transparency of experience Brain in a vat thought experiment |
Gilbert Harman (May 26, 1938 – November 13, 2021) was an American philosopher, who taught at Princeton University from 1963 until his retirement in 2017. He published widely in philosophy of language, cognitive science, philosophy of mind, ethics, moral psychology, epistemology, statistical learning theory, and metaphysics.
He and George Miller co-directed the Princeton University Cognitive Science Laboratory. Harman taught or co-taught courses in electrical engineering, computer science, psychology, philosophy, and linguistics.