Gilbert Harman (born 1938) is a contemporary philosopher who has published widely in Ethics, Epistemology, Metaphysics, and the philosophies of Language and Mind. He is well-known for his belief that philosophy and science are continuous, and for his defence of ethical relativism, most recently and comprehensively in Moral Relativism and Moral Objectivity (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996).

Works

Monographs:

• Thought (Princeton,1973)
• The Nature of Morality: An Introduction to Ethics (Oxford,1977)
• Change in View: Principles of Reasoning (MIT,1986)
• Scepticism and the Definition of Knowledge (Garland,1990) [This is Professor Harman's doctoral dissertation which was submitted to the Harvard University in 1964]
• With Judith Jarvis Thomson, Moral Relativism and Moral Objectivity (Blackwell,1996)
• Reasoning, Meaning, and Mind (Clarendon,1999)
• Explaining Value and OtherEsays in Moral Philosophy (Clarendon,2000)

Edited:

• With Donald Davidson, Semantics of Natural Language (D. Reidel,1972)
• On Noam Chomsky: Critical Essays (Anchor,1974)
• With Donald Davidson, The Logic of Grammar (Dickenson,1975)
• Conceptions of the Human Mind: Essays in Honor of George A. Miller (Laurence Erlbaum,1993)

External links

• http://www.princeton.edu/~harman/