Samuel D. Guttenplan (born July 26, 1944, in

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) is a professor in philosophy at

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. Guttenplan earned his DPhil from the

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with a dissertation directed by

John McDowell John Henry McDowell, FBA (born 7 March 1942) is a South African philosopher, formerly a fellow of University College, Oxford, and now university professor at the University of Pittsburgh. Although he has written on metaphysics, epistemology, ...

. He has interests in the philosophies of

mind The mind is the set of faculties responsible for all mental phenomena. Often the term is also identified with the phenomena themselves. These faculties include thought, imagination, memory, will, and sensation. They are responsible for various m ...

language Language is a structured system of communication. The structure of a language is its grammar and the free components are its vocabulary. Languages are the primary means by which humans communicate, and may be conveyed through a variety of met ...

philosophical logic Understood in a narrow sense, philosophical logic is the area of logic that studies the application of logical methods to philosophical problems, often in the form of extended logical systems like modal logic. Some theorists conceive philosophical ...

and

ethics Ethics or moral philosophy is a branch of philosophy that "involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong behavior".''Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy'' The field of ethics, along with aesthetics, concerns m ...

. His current work centres on the origins of human conceptual thought, and he is contracted to produce ''The Roots of Categorization'' for Oxford University Press in 2009–10. He is executive editor of the interdisciplinary journal '' Mind & Language''.

Bibliography

*''Mind and Language'' (1975), (ed.) *''The Languages of Logic: An Introduction to Formal Logic'' (1986), ; 2nd ed. (1997), *''A Companion to the Philosophy of Mind'' (1994), (ed.) *''Mind's Landscape: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind'' (2000), *''Reading Philosophy: Selected Texts with a Method for Beginners'' (2002), (with

Jennifer Hornsby Jennifer Hornsby, FBA (born 1951) is a British philosopher with interests in the philosophies of mind, action, language, as well as feminist philosophy. She is currently a professor at the School of Philosophy, Birkbeck, University of Londo ...

and Christopher Janaway) *''Objects of Metaphor'' (2005), *''Reading Ethics'' (2008), (with

Miranda Fricker Miranda Fricker, FBA FAAS (born 12 March 1966) is a British philosopher who is Professor of Philosophy at New York University, Co-Director of the New York Institute of Philosophy, and Honorary Professor at the University of Sheffield. Fricker c ...

)

External links

Guttenplan's homepage at Birkbeck, University of London''Mind & Language''
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