Irving Grant Thalberg Jr. (August 25, 1930August 21, 1987) was an author and the son of 1930s
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Irving Thalberg and
Academy Award-winning actress
Norma Shearer.
Thalberg was six years old when his father died from
pneumonia at the age of 37. He was educated at
Institut Le Rosey in
Switzerland
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and attended
Stanford University
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. He was a professor of philosophy at the
University of Illinois at Chicago until he died of cancer on August 21, 1987, four days before his 57th birthday. He left a wife and three daughters.
Prior to the University of Illinois, he was briefly a professor at the
University of Washington.
Publications
Thalberg published two books of philosophical studies through the
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: ''Enigmas of Agency'' (
Allen & Unwin
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, London, 1972), and ''Perception, Emotion & Action'' (Blackwells, Oxford, 1977).
Unlike most
epistemologists, Thalberg published articles that defended the Platonic tripartite analysis of knowledge (
justified true belief, a.k.a. "JTB") against the more popular view that Gettier counterexamples refuted the JTB account. Specifically, Thalberg argued that justification is not transmissible through valid deduction.
See also
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American philosophy
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*
List of American philosophers
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1930 births
1987 deaths
Alumni of Institut Le Rosey
American people of German-Jewish descent
Jewish philosophers
People from Los Angeles
University of Illinois Chicago faculty
Deaths from cancer in Illinois
20th-century American philosophers
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