UCLA Department of Philosophy
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The UCLA Department of Philosophy is a constituent department of the Division of Humanities in the UCLA College of Letters and Science
. From the mid-20th century, the department has been a leading and widely respected center for the study of Analytic Philosophy
, especially Mathematical Logic, Philosophical Logic, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, Political Philosophy and the Philosophy of Law. The department has been noted for the application of logic and other formal methods to classical philosophical problems.
UCLA College of Letters and Science
The College of Letters and Science is the arts and sciences college of the University of California, Los Angeles . It encompasses the Life and Physical Sciences, Humanities, Social Sciences, Honors Program and other programs for both undergraduate and graduate students.The bulk of UCLA's student...
. From the mid-20th century, the department has been a leading and widely respected center for the study of Analytic Philosophy
Analytic philosophy
Analytic philosophy is a generic term for a style of philosophy that came to dominate English-speaking countries in the 20th century...
, especially Mathematical Logic, Philosophical Logic, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, Political Philosophy and the Philosophy of Law. The department has been noted for the application of logic and other formal methods to classical philosophical problems.
Notable members
- Rogers AlbrittonRogers AlbrittonRogers Garland Albritton was a chair of the Harvard and UCLA philosophy departments, and considered by his peers to be one of the finest philosophical minds of the 20th century. Albritton's influence was achieved despite having published very little, a fact about him that inspired the entry...
, Professor and Chair - Tyler BurgeTyler BurgeTyler Burge is a Professor of Philosophy at UCLA. He has made contributions to several areas of philosophy, including the philosophy of mind, epistemology, and the history of philosophy. In the history of philosophy, he has published articles on the philosophy of Gottlob Frege...
, Professor, American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Rudolph Carnap, Professor
- Alonzo ChurchAlonzo ChurchAlonzo Church was an American mathematician and logician who made major contributions to mathematical logic and the foundations of theoretical computer science. He is best known for the lambda calculus, Church–Turing thesis, Frege–Church ontology, and the Church–Rosser theorem.-Life:Alonzo Church...
, Flint Professor (Mathematics & Philosophy) - Keith DonnellanKeith DonnellanKeith Donnellan is a contemporary philosopher and Professor Emeritus of the UCLA department of Philosophy. He has made important contributions to the philosophy of language, most notably to the analysis of proper names and definite descriptions...
, Professor - Kit FineKit FineKit Fine is Silver Professor of Philosophy and Mathematics at New York University. He previously taught for several years at UCLA...
, Flint Professor and Chair - Philippa FootPhilippa FootPhilippa Ruth Foot was a British philosopher, most notable for her works in ethics. She was one of the founders of contemporary virtue ethics...
, Griffin Professor - Barbara Herman, Griffin Professor
- Donald KalishDonald KalishDonald Kalish was an American logician, educator, and anti-war activist.-Background:Born in Chicago, Illinois, Kalish earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in psychology and his doctorate in philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley...
, Professor and Chair - Abraham KaplanAbraham KaplanAbraham Kaplan was an American philosopher, known best for being the first philosopher to systematically examine the behavioral sciences in his book "The Conduct of Inquiry" . His thinking was influenced by pragmatists Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, and John Dewey.-Biography:Kaplan's...
, Professor (Philosophy) - David KaplanDavid Kaplan (philosopher)David Benjamin Kaplan is an American philosopher and logician teaching at UCLA. His philosophical work focuses on logic, philosophical logic, modality, philosophy of language, metaphysics, and epistemology. He is best known for his work on demonstratives, on propositions, and on reference in...
, Graduate Student and Reichenbach Professor, American Academy of Arts and Sciences - David Kellogg LewisDavid Kellogg LewisDavid Kellogg Lewis was an American philosopher. Lewis taught briefly at UCLA and then at Princeton from 1970 until his death. He is also closely associated with Australia, whose philosophical community he visited almost annually for more than thirty years...
, Assistant Professor - Donald A. MartinDonald A. MartinDonald A. Martin is a set theorist and philosopher of mathematics at UCLA, where he is a member of the faculty of mathematics and philosophy....
, Professor (Mathematics & Philosophy), Harvard Society of FellowsHarvard Society of FellowsThe Harvard Society of Fellows is a group of scholars selected at the beginning of their careers by Harvard University for extraordinary scholarly potential, upon whom distinctive academic and intellectual opportunities are bestowed in order to foster their individual growth and intellectual... - Richard MontagueRichard MontagueRichard Merett Montague was an American mathematician and philosopher.-Career:At the University of California, Berkeley, Montague earned an B.A. in Philosophy in 1950, an M.A. in Mathematics in 1953, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy 1957, the latter under the direction of the mathematician and logician...
, Professor - Calvin NormoreCalvin NormoreCalvin Normore is a philosopher at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, where he holds the Macdonald Chair of Moral Philosophy since Fall 2008. He is also professor of Philosophy in the UCLA Department of Philosophy...
, Professor, American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Terence ParsonsTerence ParsonsTerence Parsons is an American contemporary philosopher of the analytic tradition. Parsons is also a Professor at UCLA in its Department of Philosophy....
, Professor, American Academy of Arts and Sciences - John PerryJohn Perry (philosopher)John R. Perry is Henry Waldgrave Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University. He has made significant contributions to areas of philosophy, including logic, philosophy of language, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind...
, Professor (1968–1974) - Warren Quinn, Professor
- Hans ReichenbachHans ReichenbachHans Reichenbach was a leading philosopher of science, educator and proponent of logical empiricism...
, Professor
- Saul KripkeSaul KripkeSaul Aaron Kripke is an American philosopher and logician. He is a professor emeritus at Princeton and teaches as a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center...
, Visiting Professor, Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy - Bertrand RussellBertrand RussellBertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic. At various points in his life he considered himself a liberal, a socialist, and a pacifist, but he also admitted that he had never been any of these things...
, Visiting Professor, Nobel Prize in Literature - Nathan SalmonNathan SalmonNathan U. Salmon is an American philosopher in the analytic tradition, specializing in metaphysics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of logic.- Biography :...
, Graduate Student and Visiting Professor - Brian Copenhaver, Affiliated Professor (History), American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Yiannis Moschovakis, Affiliated Professor (Mathematics)
- C. Anthony AndersonC. Anthony AndersonCurtis Anthony Anderson is a contemporary American philosopher, presently Professor of Philosophy at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from University of California at Los Angeles in 1977, where he worked closely with the ground-breaking logician...
, Graduate Student - Keith DeRoseKeith DeRoseKeith DeRose is an American philosopher currently teaching at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. He is Allison Foundation Professor of Philosophy at Yale. DeRose has also overseen Dissertations at Rutgers University - New Brunswick, where he works with legendary epistemologists such as...
, Graduate Student - Hans KampHans KampJohan Anthony Willem Kamp is a Dutch philosopher and linguist, responsible for introducing Discourse Representation Theory in 1981. Kamp received a Ph.D. in Philosophy from UCLA in 1968...
, Graduate Student - Hilary PutnamHilary PutnamHilary Whitehall Putnam is an American philosopher, mathematician and computer scientist, who has been a central figure in analytic philosophy since the 1960s, especially in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, and philosophy of science...
, Graduate Student - Wesley Salmon, Graduate Student