Robert Fogelin

Robert John Fogelin (born 1932) is an American philosopher. He is a professor of philosophy and Sherman Fairchild Professor in the humanities (emeritus) at Dartmouth College where he has taught since 1980. He was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005.

Fogelin received his B.A. from the University of Rochester in 1955. In 1957 he received his M.A. from Yale University and in 1960 his Ph.D. also from Yale. He joined the faculty of Pomona College in 1958. In 1966, he became an associate professor at Yale. He served as master of Yale's Trumbull College from 1973 to 1976. Fogelin remained at Yale until 1980 when he became a professor at Dartmouth.

Selected publications

• Fogelin, Robert J. (2009) Taking Wittgenstein at His Word, Princeton, Princeton University Press
• Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter and Fogelin, Robert J. (2009) Understanding Arguments: An Introduction to Informal Logic, Wadsworth Publishing
• Fogelin, Robert J. (2003) A Defense of Hume on Miracles, Princeton, Princeton University Press (part of the Princeton Monographs in Philosophy)
• Fogelin, Robert J. (1988) Figuratively Speaking, New Haven, Yale University Press