Philosopher
Samuel Guttenplan
Overview
Samuel D. Guttenplan (born 1944 in New York City) is a professor in philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London. Guttenplan earned his DPhil from the University of Oxford with a dissertation directed by John McDowell. He has interests in the philosophies of mind, language, philosophical logic and ethics. His current work centres on the origins of human conceptual thought, and he is contracted to produce The Roots of Categorization for Oxford University Press in 2009–10.
He is executive editor of the interdisciplinary journal Mind & Language.
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Ideas Samuel Guttenplan discusses
- John McDowell
- Philosophical logic
- University of Oxford
- New York City
- Philosophy of language
- Philosophy of mind
- Birkbeck, University of London
- Ethics
Place in the tradition
Part of Mind–body dualism.