Professor
Robert John Fogelin
(
–
)
1932
2016
Dartmouth College
;
Hanover, NH
Philosopher; Educator
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
Philosophy
Elected
2005
Scholar in epistemology, historical figures, and issues in philosophy of language, e.g. metaphor. Contributed to the renewed interest in Pyrrhonian skepticism (especially Sextus, Hume, Wittgenstein) and developed a distinctive version of neo-Pyrrhonism. Author of Evidence and Meaning, Wittgenstein, Hume's Skepticism, Philosophical Interpretations, Pyrrhonian Reflections on Knowledge and Justification, Berkeley's Idealism, and Walking the Tightrope of Reason.
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