John Hawthorne

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| birth_name = John Patrick Hawthorne

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| birth_place = Birmingham, England

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| other_names = John O'Leary-Hawthorne

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| alma_mater = {{ubl | University of Manchester | Syracuse University}}

| thesis_title = Public Meaning and Mental Content{{cite journal |year=1991 |title=Doctoral Dissertations, 1990–91 |journal=The Review of Metaphysics |volume=45 |issue=1 |page=198 |issn=2154-1302 |jstor=20129169}}

| thesis_year = 1990

| school_tradition = Analytic philosophy

| doctoral_advisor = Jonathan Bennett

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| discipline = Philosophy

| sub_discipline = {{hlist | Epistemology | metaphysics | philosophy of language}}

| workplaces = {{ubl | University of New South Wales | Arizona State University | Syracuse University | Rutgers University | Magdalen College, Oxford | University of Southern California | Australian Catholic University}}

| doctoral_students = Amia Srinivasan

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| notable_ideas = Subject-sensitive invariantism

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John Patrick Hawthorne{{cite thesis |last=Hawthorne |first=John Patrick |year=1990 |title=Public Meaning and Mental Content |type=PhD dissertation |location=Syracuse, New York |publisher=Syracuse University |oclc=78441217}} {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FBA}} (born 25 May 1964) is an English philosopher, currently serving as Professor of Philosophy at the Australian Catholic University in Melbourne,{{Cite web|url=https://www.acu.edu.au/research/our-research-institutes/dianoia-institute-of-philosophy|title=Dianoia Institute of Philosophy|access-date=3 October 2019|archive-date=3 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191003225330/https://www.acu.edu.au/research/our-research-institutes/dianoia-institute-of-philosophy|url-status=dead}} and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California.{{Cite web|url=https://dornsife.usc.edu/cf/phil/faculty_display.cfm?Person_ID=1047479|title = Faculty Profile > School of Philosophy > USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences}} He is recognized as a leading contemporary contributor to metaphysics and epistemology.{{cite book|url=http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198250241.do |title=The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics: Hardback: Michael J. Loux|series=Oxford Handbooks|publisher=Oxford University Press |date=2003-08-28 |isbn=978-0-19-825024-1|access-date=2013-08-26}}

Early life and career

Hawthorne was born on 25 May 1964 in Birmingham, England.{{cite web |last=Hawthorne |first=John |year=2018 |title=Curriculum Vitae |url=https://dornsife.usc.edu/tools/mytools/PersonnelInfoSystem/DOC/Faculty/PHIL/vita_1047479.pdf |location=Los Angeles |publisher=University of Southern California |access-date=28 April 2019}} He earned his PhD from Syracuse University, where he studied with William Alston and Jonathan Bennett. From 2006 to 2015, he was the Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at the University of Oxford. He has also taught at the University of New South Wales, Arizona State University, Syracuse University, Rutgers University, and Princeton University.

Philosophical work

Hawthorne's 2006 collection Metaphysical Essays offers original treatments of fundamental topics in philosophy, including identity, ontology, vagueness, and causation, which one reviewer called "essential reading for anyone currently engaged in analytic metaphysics".{{Cite web|url=https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/25198-metaphysical-essays/|title=Metaphysical Essays|date=15 January 2007 |last1=Lowe |first1=E. J. }}

In his book Knowledge and Lotteries, Hawthorne defends a view in epistemology according to which the presence of knowledge is dependent on the subject's interests (he calls this view "subject-sensitive invariantism").{{cite journal|url=http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/23836-knowledge-and-lotteries/|title=Knowledge and Lotteries|first=Matthew|last=McGrath|journal=Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews|date=6 August 2004|access-date=9 December 2012}} Unlike contextualism, Hawthorne's view does not require that the meaning of the word "know" changes from one context of ascription to another. His view is thus a variety of invariantism. However, whether a subject has knowledge depends to a surprising extent on features of the subject's context, including practical concerns. The American philosopher Jason Stanley holds a similar view.https://www.yoaavisaacs.com/uploads/6/9/2/0/69204575/ms_for_fine-tuning_fine-tuning.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}

Hawthorne has also written on philosophy of language and philosophical logic, philosophy of religion, philosophy of mind, and on Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.

Works

=Books=

The Bounds of Possibility: Puzzles of Modal Variation (with Cian Dorr and Juhani Yli-Vakkuri, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021)
Narrow Content (with Juhani Yli-Vakkuri, Oxford University Press, 2018)
The Reference Book (with David Manley, Oxford University Press, 2012)
Relativism and Monadic Truth (with Herman Cappelen, Oxford University Press 2010)
Metaphysical Essays (Oxford University Press, 2006)
Knowledge and Lotteries (Oxford University Press, 2004)
Substance and Individuation in Leibniz (with J. A. Cover, Cambridge University Press 2003)
The Grammar of Meaning: Normativity and Semantic Discourse (with Mark Norris Lance, Cambridge University Press, 1997)

=Edited books=

Knowledge, Belief, and God: New Insights in Religious Epistemology (edited with Matthew A. Benton and Dani Rabinowitz, Oxford University Press, 2018)
Contemporary Debates in Metaphysics (edited with Theodore Sider and Dean Zimmerman, Blackwell, 2007)
Perceptual Experience (edited with Tamar Gendler, Oxford University Press, 2006)
Conceivability and Possibility (edited with Tamar Gendler, Oxford University Press, 2002)

References

External links

[https://dornsife.usc.edu/cf/phil/faculty_display.cfm?Person_ID=1047479 University of Southern California Webpage]
[https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&user=uQFM2v4AAAAJ&pagesize=100&view_op=list_works Google Scholar Page]

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