1. Tamara Horowitz was an American philosopher who worked on epistemology, feminist philosophy and the philosophy of science.
12 Facts About Tamara Horowitz
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Tamara Horowitz spent much of her career at the University of Pittsburgh, and was appointed chair of the philosophy department there in September 1999, but died a few months later.
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Tamara Horowitz studied for a BA at the institution, where she was taught by Elizabeth Anscombe, graduating in 1971.
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Tamara Horowitz went on to study for a doctorate in philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, becoming the first woman to receive a philosophy doctorate from the institution when she graduated in 1976, as well as the first woman to receive a doctorate from MIT's Department of Linguistics and Philosophy.
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Tamara Horowitz returned to Pittsburgh in 1985 as a visiting assistant professor; that same year, she published "A Priori Truth" in The Journal of Philosophy, an article which was included in volume VIII of the Philosopher's Annual as one of the year's best philosophy papers.
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Tamara Horowitz became an assistant professor on the faculty at Pitt the following year.
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Tamara Horowitz was promoted to associate professor in philosophy and associate professor in women's studies in 1993, as well as being named the associate director of the university's Center for the Philosophy of Science.
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Some years later, Tamara Horowitz was appointed chair of the Pitt philosophy department, and took up the role on September 1,1999.
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Tamara Horowitz died January 30,2000, at her home in Shadyside, Pittsburgh.
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Tamara Horowitz was married to the philosopher Joseph Camp, and had two stepsons, John and David Camp.
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Tamara Horowitz explained how Horowitz situated her work in the tradition of logical positivism, and intended to return to work on the socialist legacy of the Vienna Circle once her work on belief paradoxes, upon which she had focused later in her life, was complete.
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Much of Tamara Horowitz's work was concerned with either the epistemology of a priori knowledge or with feminist philosophy.