Gideon Rosen

Gideon Rosen (born 1962) is Stuart Professor of Philosophy and formerly Chair of the Council of Humanities at Princeton University, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1992^[1] under the supervision of Paul Benacerraf.^[2] He taught from 1989 to 1993 at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and then joined the Princeton faculty. He owns a dog called Harvey. ^[3]

Philosophy

Rosen's earliest work involved the development of modal fictionalism in metaphysics. He is also the co-author of A Subject with No Object (Oxford University Press, 1997), a contribution to philosophy of mathematics written with his Princeton colleague John P. Burgess. More recently he has written in moral philosophy.

Selected articles

• "Modal Fictionalism," Mind 99 (1990): 327-354.
• "What is Constructive Empiricism?" Philosophical Studies 74 (1994): 143-178.
• "Modal Fictionalism Fixed," Analysis 55 (1995): 67-73.
• "Nominalism, Naturalism, Epistemic Relativism," Noûs 35 (2001): 69-91.
• "Culpability and Ignorance," Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 103 (2002): 61–84.
• "Kleinbart the Oblivious and Other Tales of Ignorance and Responsibility," Journal of Philosophy 105 (2008): 591-610.
• "Metaphysical Dependence: Grounding and Reduction," in B. Hale & A. Hoffmann (eds.), Modality: Metaphysics, Logic, and Epistemology (Oxford University Press, 2010).
• "Culpability and Duress: A Case Study," Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 88 (2014): 69-90.^[4]

References

1. "Gideon A. Rosen". princeton.edu.
2. http://philosophy.princeton.edu/sites/philosophy/files/person/cv/rosen_cv.pdf
3. http://philosodogs.weebly.com/blog/archives/02-2016
4. http://philpapers.org/s/Gideon%20Rosen

External links

• Interview with Gideon Rosen at New York Times Opinionator Blog