Philosopher
Tamar Gendler
Overview
Tamar Szabó Gendler (born 1965) is an American philosopher and academic. She is a professor of philosophy, psychology, and cognitive science at Yale University, where she also served as inaugural dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences from 2014 to 2024. Her academic research focuses on issues in the philosophy of psychology, epistemology, metaphysics, aesthetics, and moral psychology.
Gendler is best known for her work on thought experiments and imagination—particularly on the phenomenon of imaginative resistance—and for coining the term alief.
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Philosophers who discussed Tamar Gendler
Ideas Tamar Gendler discusses
- The Philosophical Quarterly
- Philosophy
- Bachelor of Arts
- National Science Foundation
- Philosophical Studies
- Harvard University
- Metaphysics
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Aesthetics
- Psychology
- Robert Nozick
- University of California, Berkeley
- Yale University
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Mind (journal)
- Thought experiment
- Cognitive science
- Derek Parfit
- Hilary Putnam
- Cornell University
- Princeton, New Jersey
- Epistemology
- Imagination
Place in the tradition
Part of Jewish philosophy.