13 Facts About Gilbert Harman

Gilbert Harman was an American philosopher, who taught at Princeton University from 1963 until his retirement in 2017.

Gilbert Harman published widely in philosophy of language, cognitive science, philosophy of mind, ethics, moral psychology, epistemology, statistical learning theory, and metaphysics.

Gilbert Harman taught at Princeton from 1963 until his retirement in 2017 as the James S McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in Philosophy.

Gilbert Harman was named a Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society and a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science.

Gilbert Harman received the Jean Nicod Prize in Paris in 2005.

Gilbert Harman's daughter Elizabeth Harman is a philosopher and a member of the philosophy department and the Center for Human Values at Princeton University.

Gilbert Harman expressed doubts about appeals to a priori knowledge and argued that logic and decision theory are theories of implication and consistency and should not be interpreted as theories that can be followed: they are not theories of inference or reasoning.

Gilbert Harman formulated the no false lemmas principle as a proposed method of solving Gettier problem's.

In Thought and Change in View Gilbert Harman argued that intuitions about knowledge are useful in thinking about inference.

Gilbert Harman argued that perceptual experience has "intentional content" and that it is important not to confuse qualities of the intentional object of experience with qualities of the experience.

Gilbert Harman proposed that perceptual and other psychological states are self-reflective so that the content of a perceptual experience might be: this very experience is the result of perceiving a tree with such and such features.

Gilbert Harman argued that there is not a single true morality.

Gilbert Harman rejected attempts to base moral theory on conceptions of human flourishing and character traits and expressed skepticism about the need for a good person to be susceptible to moral guilt or shame.