Philosopher
Allan Gibbard
Overview
Allan Fletcher Gibbard (born 1942) is an American philosopher who is the Richard B. Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Gibbard has made major contributions to contemporary ethical theory, in particular metaethics, where he has developed a contemporary version of non-cognitivism. He has also published articles in the philosophy of language, metaphysics, and social choice theory: in social choice, he first proved the result known today as Gibbard-Satterthwaite theorem, which had been previously conjectured by Michael Dummett and Robin Farquharson.
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Philosophers who discussed Allan Gibbard
Ideas Allan Gibbard discusses
- Belief
- American Philosophical Association
- John Rawls
- Norm (philosophy)
- Philosophy
- Bachelor of Arts
- Judgement
- Social choice theory
- Harvard University
- Emeritus
- Mathematics
- Metaphysics
- Metaethics
- Providence, Rhode Island
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Non-cognitivism
- John McDowell
- Physics
- Political philosophy
- University of Pittsburgh
- Robert Nozick
- Michael Dummett
- Theory
- University of Michigan
Place in the tradition
Part of Anti-realism.