Gilbert Harman (born 1938) is a contemporary philosopher teaching at Princeton University who has published widely in Ethics, Epistemology, Metaphysics, and the philosophies of Language and Mind. Like his Ph.D. advisor Quine, he is well-known for his belief that philosophy and science are continuous, and for his skepticism about conceptual analysis. As a moral philosopher, he is best-known for his explanatory argument for moral anti-realism and for his defence of ethical relativism, most recently and comprehensively in Moral Relativism and Moral Objectivity (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996). More recently, he has attacked the idea that people have set characters of the sort that could ground virtue ethics. He was awarded the Jean Nicod Prize in Paris in 2005. 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... A philosopher is a person who thinks deeply regarding people, society, the world, and/or the universe. ... Ethics (from Greek ἦθος meaning custom) is the branch of axiology, one of the four major branches of philosophy, which attempts to understand the nature of morality; to distinguish that which is right from that which is wrong. ... Epistemology is an analytic branch of philosophy which studies the nature, origin, and scope of knowledge. ... Plato and Aristotle, by Raphael (Sistine Chapel, Rome). ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards and appeal to a wider international audience, this article may require cleanup. ... W.V. Quine Willard Van Orman Quine (June 25, 1908 – December 25, 2000), usually cited as W.V. Quine or W.V.O. Quine but known to his friends as Van, was one of the most influential American philosophers and logicians of the 20th century. ... The Philosopher (detail), by Rembrandt Philosophy is a study that includes diverse subfields such as aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, logic, and metaphysics. ... The scope of this article is limited to empirical sciences. ... Moral relativism is the position that moral propositions do not reflect absolute or universal truths. ... The Jean Nicod Prize is awarded annually in Paris to a leading philosopher of mind or philosophically oriented cognitive scientist. ... , The Eiffel Tower, the tallest structure in Paris, is an international symbol of the city. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

He was educated at Swarthmore College and Harvard University, where he earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy. Swarthmore College is a private liberal arts college in the United States, with an enrollment of about 1450 students. ...

His daughter, Elizabeth Harman, now an assistant professor of Philosophy at New York University, will soon take up a position at Princeton. New York University (NYU) is a major research university in New York City. ...

Works

Monographs:

• Thought (Princeton,1973)
• The Nature of Morality: An Introduction to Ethics (Oxford,1977)
• Change in View: Principles of Reasoning (MIT,1986)
• Scepticism and the Definition of Knowledge (Garland,1990) [This is Professor Harman's doctoral dissertation which was submitted to the Harvard University in 1964]
• With Judith Jarvis Thomson, Moral Relativism and Moral Objectivity (Blackwell,1996)
• Reasoning, Meaning, and Mind (Clarendon,1999)
• Explaining Value and Other Essays in Moral Philosophy (Clarendon,2000)

Edited: Judith Jarvis Thomson (born 1929) is an American moral philosopher and metaphysician. ...

• 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)

Donald Davidson (March 6, 1917 – August 30, 2003) was an American philosopher and the Willis S. and Marion Slusser Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. ... Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is the Institute Professor Emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ... George A. Miller (born February 3 1920) is a famous professor of psychology at Princeton University, whose most famous work was The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on our Capacity for Processing Information, which was published in 1956 in In the linguistics community, Miller is well...

See also

• List of Jean Nicod Prize laureates
• Moral skepticism

The Jean Nicod Prize is awarded annually in Paris to a leading philosopher of mind or philosophically oriented cognitive scientist. ... In meta-ethics, moral skepticism is a theory which maintains either that ethical claims are generally false, or else that we cannot sufficiently justify any ethical claims, and must therefore maintain doubt about whether they are true or false. ...

External links

• http://www.princeton.edu/~harman/