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| - Gilbert Harman (born 1938) is a contemporary American philosopher, teaching at Princeton University, who has published widely on ethics, epistemology, metaphysics and the philosophies of language and mind. He was educated at Swarthmore College and Harvard University, where he earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy. His daughter, Elizabeth Harman, is also a philosopher and a member of the philosophy department and the center for human values at Princeton University. Harman shares the belief of his Ph.D. advisor Willard Van Orman Quine that philosophy and science are continuous, as well as his skepticism about conceptual analysis. As a moral philosopher, he is best-known for his explanatory argument for anti-realism and for his defense of a form of ethical relativism, most recently and comprehensively in Moral Relativism and Moral Objectivity (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996), in which he debates the issue with Judith Jarvis Thomson. According to Harman's view, if we say that A morally ought to perform some action in circumstances C we really mean that A should do so given that he has morally motivating attitudes that she shares with us. Thus the truth of moral claims will be relative to sets of motivating attitudes that are presumed to be shared when we engage in moral discussion. In some cases, however, motivating attitudes are not shared, so that someone being evaluated may be beyond the motivational reach of anything that we can say to them in opposition to their conduct. For example, Hitler's attitudes may have been so different from ours as to put him beyond the reach of any rational argument that we could ever present to him. In such extreme cases, Harman believes, we are entitled to make a judgment that we are dealing with someone who is evil but who is not necessarily making any intellectual mistake relative to his own underlying attitudes. His failure to act as we would prescribe is not based on a mistake or a cognitive deficiency. More recently, Harman 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. (en)
- Gilbert Harman (1938) is een Amerikaans filosoof en professor aan de Princeton-universiteit. Hij heeft bijdragen geleverd op het gebied van de ethiek, de kennisleer, de metafysica en de taalfilosofie en de filosofie van de geest. (nl)
- Gilbert Harman (nascido em 1938) é um filósofo estadunidense, professor de Princeton, que publicou bastante sobre ética, epistemologia, metafísica, filosofia da linguagem e filosofia da mente. (pt)
- Gilbert Harman (* 1938) ist ein US-amerikanischer Philosoph. Er unterrichtet an der Princeton University und publiziert zu Themen der Ethik, Erkenntnistheorie, Metaphysik und der Philosophien der Sprache und des Geistes. Harman studierte am Swarthmore College und an der Harvard University, wo er 1964 in Philosophie promovierte. Seine Tochter, Elizabeth Harman, ist auch Philosophin und arbeitet am philosophischen Institut und am Center for Human Values der Princeton University. Mit seinem Doktorvater Willard Van Orman Quine teilt Harman sowohl die Auffassung, dass ein fließender Übergang zwischen Philosophie und (Natur-)Wissenschaft besteht, als auch seinen Skeptizismus hinsichtlich der philosophischen Begriffsanalyse. Als Moralphilosoph erlangte Harman Bekanntheit vor allem durch seine Beiträge zum Antirealismus und Ethischen Relativismus. Eine umfangreiche Darstellung seiner moralischen Positionen findet sich in seinem 1996 erschienenen Werk Moral Relativism and Moral Objectivity, in welchem mit Judith Jarvis Thomson auch eine seiner Kritikerinnen zu Wort kommt. Im Jahr 2005 wurde Harman in Paris mit dem Jean-Nicod-Preis ausgezeichnet. (de)
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| - Gilbert Harman (born 1938) is a contemporary American philosopher, teaching at Princeton University, who has published widely on ethics, epistemology, metaphysics and the philosophies of language and mind. (en)
- Gilbert Harman (1938) is een Amerikaans filosoof en professor aan de Princeton-universiteit. (nl)
- Gilbert Harman (nascido em 1938) é um filósofo estadunidense, professor de Princeton, que publicou bastante sobre ética, epistemologia, metafísica, filosofia da linguagem e filosofia da mente. (pt)
- Gilbert Harman (* 1938) ist ein US-amerikanischer Philosoph. (de)
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