14 Facts About Allan Gibbard

Allan Fletcher Gibbard was born on 1942 and is an American philosopher who is the Richard B Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Allan Gibbard has 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.

Allan Fletcher Gibbard was born on April 7,1942, in Providence, Rhode Island.

Allan Gibbard received his BA in mathematics from Swarthmore College in 1963 with minors in physics and philosophy.

In 1971 Allan Gibbard earned his PhD, writing a dissertation under the direction of John Rawls.

Allan Gibbard served as professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago, and the University of Pittsburgh, before joining the University of Michigan where he spent the remainder of his career until his retirement in 2016.

Allan Gibbard was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1990 and was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences in 2009, one of only two living philosophers to be so honored,.

Allan Gibbard is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, and has received Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Allan Gibbard served as President of the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association from 2001 to 2002.

Allan Gibbard gave the Tanner Lectures at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2006.

The Allan Gibbard's theorem assumes the collective decision results in exactly one winner and does not apply to multi-winner voting.

Allan Gibbard is best known in philosophy for his contributions to ethical theory.

Allan Gibbard is the author of three books in this area.

Allan Gibbard argues that when we endorse someone's action, belief, or feeling as "rational" or warranted we are expressing acceptance of a system of norms that permits it.