George Bealer
George Bealer | |
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| Education | University of California, Berkeley (PhD) |
| Era | 21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| Institutions | Yale University |
Main interests | philosophy of mind, epistemology |
Notable ideas | The Autonomy of Philosophy |
George Bealer (1944-2025) was an American philosopher and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Yale University. He is known for his works on philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, epistemology, and logic.[1][2][3][4] Bealer is particularly well known for his work on the nature of the a priori and philosophical intuitions, where he defended the reliability of intuitions as a source of evidence in philosophical inquiry.
He was the author of Quality and Concept (Clarendon Press, 1983), which developed a unified theory of properties, relations, and propositions.[5] He also co-edited The Waning of Materialism (2010) with Robert C. Koons, a volume addressing contemporary philosophical debates on the nature of mind and materialism.[6][7][8]
Bealer held academic positions at the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Colorado Boulder, and Reed College before joining Yale University. He completed his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley.
Selected publications
[edit]- Bealer, George (1979). Theories of properties, relations, and propositions. Journal of Philosophy 76 (11):634-648.
- Bealer, George (1983). Quality and Concept (Clarendon Press, 1983)
- Bealer, George (1983). Completeness in the theory of properties, relations, and propositions. Journal of Symbolic Logic 48 (2):415-426.
- Bealer, George (1987). The philosophical limits of scientific essentialism. Philosophical Perspectives 1:289-365.
- Bealer, George (1992). The incoherence of empiricism. Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 66 (1):99-138.
- Bealer, George (1998). A theory of concepts and concepts possession. Philosophical Issues 9:261-301.
- Bealer, George (1999). A Theory of the a Priori. Philosophical Perspectives 13:29-55.
- Bealer, George (2002). Modal Epistemology and the Rationalist Renaissance. In Tamar Gendler & John Hawthorne (eds.), Conceivability and Possibility. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 71-125.
- Bealer, George (2004). The origins of modal error. Dialectica 58 (1):11-42.
- Bealer, George (2006). A definition of necessity. Philosophical Perspectives 20 (1):17–39.
References
[edit]- ^ "Intuitions Might Not Be Sui Generis: Some Criticisms of George Bealer – Florida Philosophical Review". Florida Philosophical Review.
- ^ Hasan, Ali (23 January 2014). "Review of Essays on A Priori Knowledge and Justification". NDPR. ISSN 1538-1617.
- ^ Bengson, John (12 January 2015). "Review of Intuition". NDPR. ISSN 1538-1617.
- ^ Dougherty, Trent (9 January 2010). "Review of Epistemology: New Essays". NDPR. ISSN 1538-1617.
- ^ Bealer, George (1982). Quality and Concept. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0198244228.
- ^ Bealer, George, and Koons, Robert C. (2010). The Waning of Materialism: New Essays on the Mind-Body Problem. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199556191.
- ^ Bailey, Andrew M. (2011). "The Waning of Materialism, edited by Robert C. Koons and George Bealer". Mind. 120 (478): 534–538. doi:10.1093/mind/fzr021.
- ^ Owen, Matthew (2018). "Dusting Off Dualism?". American Philosophical Association. Archived from the original on January 12, 2020.
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