Gilbert Harman

Gilbert Harman

Department of Philosophy
Princeton University

Princeton, NJ 08544-1006

Phone: 609-258-4301
Fax: 609-258-1502
Email: harman@princeton.edu

Reliable Reasoning

Harman and Kulkarni, Reliable Reasoning.
Online symposium at
http://www.abstracta.pro.br/english/.

Interests. Ethics: guilt-free morality, analogies between moral philosophy and linguistics, moral particularism, virtue ethics, morality as resting on an implicit actual contract, moral relativism. Epistemology: induction, statistical learning theory, psychology of reasoning, pragmatic aspects of reasoning, logic as a theory of implication not inference, rejection of apriori knowledge, epistemic foundations, full belief as believing one knows. Language: rejection of analyticity, conceptual role semantics, truth-functional "semantics," linguistics. Mind: consciousness, intention, self-reflexive states, cognitive science.

Upcoming Events in Cognitive Science in and around Princeton.

Teaching 2009-2010.

  • Fall 2009: LIN 435/PHI 435 Advanced Semantics, co-taught with Edwin Williams. Syllabus.
    When and Where: 11am- 12:20pm, Tuesday and Thursday, 209 Burr Hall
    Topic for November 24: Generalized sequence phenomena and double access readings: tense, person, mood (as discussed by Schlenker)

  • Spring 2010: PHI 218/ELE 218 Epistemology and Learning Theory, co-taught with Sanjeev Kulkarni.

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