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Harman, Gilbert Helms was born on May 26, 1938 in East Orange, New Jersey, United States. Son of William Henry and Marguerite Variel (Page) Harman.
(Contains an overall account of morality in its philosophi...)
Contains an overall account of morality in its philosophical format particularly with regard to problems of observation, evidence, and truth.
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( Originally published in 1990. This study argues that sc...)
Originally published in 1990. This study argues that scepticism is an intelligible view and that the issue scepticism raises is whether or not certain sceptical hypotheses are as plausible as the ordinary views we accept. It discusses psychological concepts, definitions of knowledge, belief and hypothetic inference (inference to the best explanation). Starting from ‘Is skepticism a problem for epistemology’, the book takes us through the argument for the possibility of scepticism, including looking at sense data and considering memory and perception.
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(Do moral questions have objective answers? In this great ...)
Do moral questions have objective answers? In this great debate, Gilbert Harman explains and argues for relativism, emotivism, and moral scepticism. In his view, moral disagreements are like disagreements about what to pay for a house; there are no correct answers ahead of time, except in relation to one or another moral framework. Independently, Judith Jarvis Thomson examines what she takes to be the case against moral objectivity, and rejects it; she argues that it is possible to find out the correct answers to some moral questions. In her view, some moral disagreements are like disagreements about whether the house has a ghost. Harman and Thomson then reply to each other. This important, lively accessible exchange will be invaluable to all students of moral theory and meta--ethics.
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(In this important new collection, Gilbert Harman presents...)
In this important new collection, Gilbert Harman presents a selection of fifteen interconnected essays on fundamental issues at the center of analytic philosophy. The book opens with a group of four essays discussing basic principles of reasoning and rationality. The next three essays argue against the once popular idea that certain claims are true and knowable by virtue of meaning. In the third group of essays Harman presents his own view of meaning and the possibility of thinking in language. The final three essays investigate the nature of mind, developing further the themes already set out. Reasoning, Meaning, and Mind offers an integrated presentation of this rich and influential body of work, which Harman has developed over thirty years.
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(Explaining Value is a selection of the best of Gilbert Ha...)
Explaining Value is a selection of the best of Gilbert Harman's shorter writings in moral philosophy. The thirteen essays are divided into four sections, which focus in turn on moral relativism, values and valuing, character traits and virtue ethics, and ways of explaining aspects of morality. Harman's distinctive approach to moral philosophy has provoked much interest; this volume offers a fascinating conspectus of his most important work in the area.
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In Reliable Reasoning, Gilbert Harman and Sanjeev Kulkarni -- a philosopher and an engineer -- argue that philosophy and cognitive science can benefit from statistical learning theory (SLT), the theory that lies behind recent advances in machine learning. The philosophical problem of induction, for example, is in part about the reliability of inductive reasoning, where the reliability of a method is measured by its statistically expected percentage of errors -- a central topic in SLT. After discussing philosophical attempts to evade the problem of induction, Harman and Kulkarni provide an admirably clear account of the basic framework of SLT and its implications for inductive reasoning. They explain the Vapnik-Chervonenkis (VC) dimension of a set of hypotheses and distinguish two kinds of inductive reasoning. The authors discuss various topics in machine learning, including nearest-neighbor methods, neural networks, and support vector machines. Finally, they describe transductive reasoning and suggest possible new models of human reasoning suggested by developments in SLT.
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Harman, Gilbert Helms was born on May 26, 1938 in East Orange, New Jersey, United States. Son of William Henry and Marguerite Variel (Page) Harman.
Bachelor, Swarthmore College, 1960. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1964.
With department philosophy Princeton (New Jersey) University, since 1963, professor, since 1971.
( In Reliable Reasoning, Gilbert Harman and Sanjeev Kulka...)
(In this important new collection, Gilbert Harman presents...)
(Do moral questions have objective answers? In this great ...)
(Contains an overall account of morality in its philosophi...)
(Explaining Value is a selection of the best of Gilbert Ha...)
( Originally published in 1990. This study argues that sc...)
(First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylo...)
Author: Thought, 1973, The Nature of Morality, 1977, Change in View, 1986, Skepticism and the Definition of Knowledge, 1990, (with Judith Jarvis Thomson) Moral Relativism and Moral Objectivity, 1996, Reasoning, Meaning, and Mind, 1999, Explaining Value and Other Essays in Moral Philosophy, 2000, (with Sanjeev Kulkarni) Reliable Reasoning, 2007. Editor: On Noam Chomsky, 1974, (with Donald Davidson) Semantics of Natural Language, 1971, (with Donald Davidson) The Logic of Grammar, 1975, Conceptions of the Human Mind, 1993.
Fellow: Cognitive Science Society. Member: American Academy Arts and Sciences, Linguistic Society of America, Philosophy Science Society, Association for Psychological Science, American Philosophical Association.
Married Lucy Newman, August 14, 1970. Children: Elizabeth, Olivia.