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) |
| Education | |
| Education | Swarthmore College (BA) Harvard University (PhD) |
| Doctoral advisor | Willard Van Orman Quine |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic philosophy |
| Doctoral students | Stephen Stich, James Dreier, Joshua Knobe, Daniel Rothschild |
| Main interests | Philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, ethics, epistemology |
| Notable ideas | Perceptual experience has intentional content Three levels of meaning Situationist critique of virtue ethics 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.