Gilbert Harman (1938) is an American philosopher and professor at Princeton University. He has contributed in the field of ethics, knowledge learning, metaphysics and language philosophy and philosophy of the mind.
biographyHarman was born in 1938 and studied at the Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, and at Harvard University, where he graduated in 1963 in philosophy at W.V. Quine. With Quine, Harman shared the view that philosophy and science are a continuum, and that one should be skeptical about conceptual analysis.
His daughter, Elizabeth Harman, is also a philosopher and member of the Philosophy Department of Princeton University.
In 2005, Gilbert Harman received the Jean Nicod Award for his contributions to the spirit of philosophy. Work
In the field of ethics, he is best known by his explanatory argument for anti-socialism and for his defense of ethical relativism. This he has recently developed quite extensively in his Moral Relativism and Moral Objectivity from 1996.
In the field of philosophy of mind, Harman, together with Wilfrid Sellars, has developed a form of functionalism as a meaning theory, building on Wittgenstein's idea of Meaning as use. Publications
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