Gideon Rosen

Gideon Rosen (born 1962) is Stuart Professor of Philosophy and formerly Chair of the Council of Humanities at Princeton University, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1992 under the supervision of Paul Benacerraf. He taught from 1989 to 1993 at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and then joined the Princeton faculty. He owns a dog called Harvey.

Philosophy

Rosen's earliest work involved the development of modal fictionalism in metaphysics. He is also the co-author of A Subject with No Object (Oxford University Press, 1997), a contribution to philosophy of mathematics written with his Princeton colleague John P. Burgess. More recently he has written in moral philosophy.

Selected articles

• "Modal Fictionalism," Mind 99 (1990): 327-354.
• "What is Constructive Empiricism?" Philosophical Studies 74 (1994): 143-178.
• "Modal Fictionalism Fixed," Analysis 55 (1995): 67-73.
• "Nominalism, Naturalism, Epistemic Relativism," Noûs 35 (2001): 69-91.
• "Culpability and Ignorance," Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 103 (2002): 61–84.
• "Kleinbart the Oblivious and Other Tales of Ignorance and Responsibility," Journal of Philosophy 105 (2008): 591-610.
• "Metaphysical Dependence: Grounding and Reduction," in B. Hale & A. Hoffmann (eds.), Modality: Metaphysics, Logic, and Epistemology (Oxford University Press, 2010).
• "Culpability and Duress: A Case Study," Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 88 (2014): 69-90.

External links

• Interview with Gideon Rosen at New York Times Opinionator Blog