Jay Rosenberg

Jay Frank Rosenberg (born April 18, 1942 in Chicago , † February 21, 2008 in Chapel Hill, Orange County, North Carolina) was an American philosopher. His main areas of work were philosophy of language , philosophy of mind and epistemology . His introduction "Philosophizing: A Handbook for Beginners" is particularly well known .

Life

Jay Rosenberg studied philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh with Wilfrid Sellars . After earning his Ph. D. in 1966, he became an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . Since 1974 he was a professor there. Since 1978 Rosenberg has been a visiting professor in Germany (Bielefeld, Heidelberg, Tübingen).

Works

• Readings in the Philosophy of Language , co-edited with Charles Travis; Prentice-Hall, Inc .; Englewood Cliffs, NJ; 1971.

• Linguistic Representation , D. Reidel Publishing Co .; Dordrecht, Holland; 1974.

• The Practice of Philosophy , Prentice-Hall, Inc .; Englewood Cliffs, NJ; 1978.

• One World and Our Knowledge of It , D. Reidel Publishing Co .; Dordrecht, Holland; 1980.

• Thinking Clearly About Death , Prentice-Hall, Inc .; Englewood Cliffs, NJ .; 1983.

• Philosophizing: A Handbook for Beginners , (Original: The Practice of Philosophy. A Handbook for Beginners, second edition, 1984); Publishing house Vittorio Klostermann; Frankfurt am Main, Germany; 1986; 5th edition 2006, ISBN 3-465-03460-0

• The Thinking Self , Temple University Press; Philadelphia, PA; 1986.

• Beyond Formalism: Naming and Necessity for Human Beings , Temple University Press; Philadelphia, PA; 1994

• Three Conversations About Knowing , Hackett Publishing Co .; Indianapolis, IN, and Cambridge, MA; 2000
• German by Holger Hanowell, Three conversations about knowledge , Reclam, Stuttgart (2013).

• Thinking About Knowing , Oxford University Press; Oxford; 2002

• Accessing Kant , Oxford University Press; Oxford: 2005

• Wilfrid Sellars: Fusing the Images , Oxford University Press; Oxford: 2007