Daniel Garber (philosopher)
{{short description|American philosopher}}
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| birth_date = 1949
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| region = Western philosophy
| alma_mater = Harvard University
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| thesis_year = 1975
| school_tradition = Analytic philosophy
| doctoral_advisors = Roderick Firth, Hilary Putnam
| influences = Hilary Putnam
| era = Contemporary philosophy
| institutions = University of Chicago, Princeton University
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| main_interests = History of early modern philosophy and science, Descartes, Leibniz
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Daniel Garber (born 1949) is an American philosopher. He is the A. Watson Armour, III, University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University.{{Cite web|title=Daniel Garber {{!}} Department of Philosophy|url=https://philosophy.princeton.edu/content/daniel-garber|access-date=2020-06-14|website=philosophy.princeton.edu|archive-date=2020-06-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200614041054/https://philosophy.princeton.edu/content/daniel-garber|url-status=dead}} He is a specialist in the history of early modern philosophy and science.{{cite web|url=https://philosophy.princeton.edu/sites/philosophy/files/person/cv/garber_cv_2-18.pdf|title=Curriculum Vitae|website=Philosophy.princeton.edu|accessdate=16 August 2019}}
Education and career
Garber earned all his degrees from Harvard University including his Ph.D. in philosophy in 1975 under the direction of Roderick Firth and Hilary Putnam. He taught at the University of Chicago from 1975 until joining the Princeton faculty in 2002.
He is an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.{{Cite web|url=https://www.paris-iea.fr/en/fellows/daniel-garber-2|title=Daniel Garber - Institut d'études avancées de Paris|website=Paris-iea.fr|accessdate=16 August 2019}} He is also Consulting Editor of the Journal of the History of Ideas.
Selected publications
=Authored books=
- Descartes's Metaphysical Physics (University of Chicago Press, 1992).
- Descartes Embodied: Reading Cartesian Philosophy through Cartesian Science (Cambridge University Press, 2001).
- Leibniz: Body, Substance, Monad (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009).
=Edited books=
- Leibniz: Philosophical Essays (translated and edited with Roger Ariew) (Hackett Press, 1989).
- The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy (with Michael R. Ayers) (Cambridge University Press, 1998).
- Kant and the Early Moderns (with Béatrice Longuenesse) (Princeton University Press, 2008).
- The Mechanization of Natural Philosophy (with Sophie Roux) (Dordrecht: Spring, 2013).
- Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy (with Donald Rutherford (philosopher)), annual series.
=Articles=
- "Old evidence and logical omniscience in Bayesian confirmation theory," in J. Earman (ed.), Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. 10 (1983), pp. 99-131.
References
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External links
- [https://scholar.princeton.edu/dgarber Daniel Garber's homepage].
- [https://sempy.sites.yale.edu/sempy-workshop A discussion with Michael Della Rocca about the methodology of history of philosophy].
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