Allan Gibbard
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Allan Gibbard (born 1942) is the Richard B. Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Allan Gibbard has made several contributions to contemporary ethical theory, in particular metaethics. He has also published articles in the philosophy of language, metaphysics, and social choice theory.
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[edit] Career
Gibbard has written three books in ethical theory: Wise Choices, Apt Feelings: A Theory of Normative Judgment (1990) develops a general theory of moral judgment and judgments of rationality; Thinking How to Live (2003) offers an argument for reconfiguring the distinctions between normative and descriptive discourse; Reconciling Our Aims: In Search of Bases for Ethics (2008) argues in favour of a broadly utilitarian approach to ethics.
Gibbard has been a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Econometric Society, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He served as President of the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association from 2001 to 2002.
Gibbard received his BA in mathematics from Swarthmore College in 1963 with minors in physics and philosophy. After teaching mathematics and physics in Ghana with the Peace Corps (1963-1965), Gibbard studied philosophy at Harvard University, earning his Ph.D. in 1971 under the direction of John Rawls. He served as professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago (1969-1974), and the University of Pittsburgh (1974-1977), before joining the University of Michigan. Gibbard chaired the University of Michigan's Philosophy Department (1987-1988) and has held the title of Richard B. Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy since 1994.
In 2009, Gibbard became the fourth philosopher to be elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences.[1]
[edit] Interviews with Gibbard
- 'A Pragmatic Justification of Morality' in Alex Voorhoeve Conversations on Ethics. Oxford University Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-19-921537-9.
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- Allan Gibbard, Wise Choices, Apt Feelings, Harvard University Press, 1990 ISBN 0-674-95378-9
- ____, Thinking How to Live, Harvard University Press, 2003, ISBN 0-674-01167-8
[edit] External links
- Allan Gibbard's home page
- Wise Choices, Apt Feelings bk description w comments of John McDowell & Simon Blackburn
- Scroll down to brief, deep James Ryan review
- Thinking How to Live, intimate 4+ page overview in Preface, & more, with comments
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