Irving Grant Thalberg Jr. (August 25, 1930August 21, 1987) was an author and the son of 1930s

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producer 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

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and attended

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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.

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Thalberg published two books of philosophical studies through the

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: ''Enigmas of Agency'' (

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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.

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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 {{US-philosopher-stub

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