Richard Fumerton
Richard Fumerton | |
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| Born | October 7, 1949 |
| Education | |
| Education | University of Toronto (B.A.) Brown University (M.A., PhD) |
| Thesis | Phenomenalism (1974) |
| Doctoral advisors | Roderick Chisholm, Ernest Sosa, J. Van Cleve |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic philosophy |
| Main interests | epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, value theory |
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Richard Anthony Fumerton (born October 7, 1949) is a Canadian American philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of Iowa with research interests in epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of mind and value theory. He has been cited as an influential expert on the position of "metaepistemological scepticism". He received his B.A. in philosophy from the University of Toronto in 1971 and his M.A. and PhD from Brown University in 1973 and 1974, respectively. He has been the F. Wendell Miller Professor of Philosophy at the University of Iowa since 2003.