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Coburn, Robert Craig was born on January 25, 1930 in Minneapolis. Son of William Carl and Esther Therice (Rudd) Coburn.
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The Strangeness of the Ordinary: Problems and Issues in Contemporary Metaphysics
(The problems of metaphysics pervade everyday thought and ...)
The problems of metaphysics pervade everyday thought and discussion - notions like time, space, object, property, necessity, existence, fact, God, consciousness and value. This work examines some of the main issues that are at the centre of much traditional and current work in metaphysics.
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Robert Craig Coburn
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Robert Craig Coburn, American philosopher, educator. Andrew Mellon postdoctoral fellow in philosophy University Pittsburgh, 1961-1962; National Science Foundation grantee, 1968-1969. Ordained elder Rocky Mountain Conference United Methodist Church; Member American Philosophical Association (executive committee Pacific division 1973-1974), American Association of University Professors, Society Values in Higher Education, Phi Beta Kappa.
Education
Bachelor of Arts, Yale University, 1951; Bachelor of Divinity, University of Chicago, 1954; Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1958; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1958.
Career
Assistant professor philosophy University Chicago, 1960-1965, associate professor, 1965-1968, professor, 1968-1971. Professor philosophy University Washington, Seattle, 1971—2005, emeritus professor philosophy, since 2005. Visiting associate professor philosophy Cornell University, 1966, University Bergen, Norway, spring 1986.
Conductor National Endowment of the Humanities summer seminar, 1983. Consultant Energy Research and Development Administration.
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The Strangeness of the Ordinary: Problems and Issues in Contemporary Metaphysics
(The problems of metaphysics pervade everyday thought and ...)
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The Strangeness of the Ordinary
('...cannot fail to interest the general reader. More conp...)
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The Strangeness of the Ordinary: Problems and Issues in Contemporary Metaphysics
Membership
Ordained elder Rocky Mountain Conference United Methodist Church. Member American Philosophical Association (executive committee Pacific division 1973-1974), American Association of University Professors, Society Values in Higher Education, Phi Beta Kappa.
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Married Martha Louise Means, July 12, 1974.
