Tad M. Schmaltz (born 1960) is a professor of

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at the

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

. Prior to that, he was a professor of philosophy at

Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...

, where he began his teaching career in 1989. He graduated

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with a BA in philosophy from

Kalamazoo College Kalamazoo College, also known as Kalamazoo, K College, KC or simply K, is a private liberal arts college in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Founded in 1833 by Baptist ministers as the Michigan and Huron Institute, Kalamazoo is the oldest private college in ...

in 1983, received his doctorate in 1988 from the

University of Notre Dame The University of Notre Dame du Lac, known simply as Notre Dame ( ) or ND, is a private Catholic research university in Notre Dame, Indiana, outside the city of South Bend. French priest Edward Sorin founded the school in 1842. The main campu ...

. He is the author of '' Malebranche's Theory of the Soul'' (Oxford University Press, 1996) and ''Radical Cartesianism'' (Cambridge University Press, 2002). He is editor of the

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. Schmaltz spent his early childhood in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, before moving to Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he attended St. Paul Lutheran School on Earhart Road.

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Tad Schmaltz's Duke page
* Duke University faculty 20th-century American philosophers 21st-century American philosophers Philosophers of mind Philosophers from Michigan University of Notre Dame alumni 1960 births Living people Kalamazoo College alumni University of Michigan faculty {{US-philosopher-stub

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