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Charles Landesman (born 17 December 1932) is an American philosopher. He is professor emeritus of philosophy at Hunter College.

Landesman was born in Brooklyn, New York. He obtained a BA from Wesleyan University in 1954 and a PhD from Yale University in 1959.[1] He was assistant professor at Kansas University (1959–1965) and a professor in the Department of Philosophy at Hunter College from 1970.[2] He has defended philosophical dualism.[3][4]

Selected publications

  • Readings in the Theory of Action (Indiana University Press, 1968)
  • The Foundations of Knowledge (Prentice-Hall, 1970)
  • The Problem of Universals (Basic Books, 1971)
  • Discourse and its Presuppositions (Yale University Press, 1972)[5]
  • Philosophy: An Introduction to the Central Issue (Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1985)
  • Color and Consciousness: An Essay in Metaphysics (Temple University Press, 1989)
  • The Eye and the Mind: Reflections on Perception and the Problem of Knowledge (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993)
  • Introduction to Epistemology (Blackwell, 1996)
  • Skepticism: The Central Issues (Wiley, 2002)[6]
  • Leibniz's Mill: A Challenge to Materialism (2011)

References

  1. ^ "Charles Landesman". Oxford Reference. 2010.
  2. ^ "Charles Landesman". ditext.com. 2014. Archived from the original on January 14, 2014.
  3. ^ Hasker, William (2011). "Leibniz's Mill: A Challenge to Materialism". Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. Archived from the original on December 9, 2023.
  4. ^ Strickland, Lloyd (2017). "Review of Leibniz's Mill: A Challenge to Materialism by Charles Landesman" (PDF). The Heythrop Journal. 58 (3): 545–546. doi:10.1111/heyj.12577.
  5. ^ Haack, Susan (1972). "Book Review: Discourse and its Presuppositions". Mind. 83 (331): 462–464. doi:10.1093/mind/LXXXIII.331.462.
  6. ^ Greco, John (2004). "Skepticism: The Major Issues by Charles Landesman". Mind. 113 (452): 766–768. doi:10.1093/mind/113.452.766. JSTOR 3489092.
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