Charles Landesman

Charles Landesman (born 17 December 1932) is an American philosopher. He is professor emeritus of philosophy at Hunter College.

Landesman was born in Brooklyn, New York. He obtained a BA from Wesleyan University in 1954 and a PhD from Yale University in 1959. He was assistant professor at Kansas University (1959–1965) and a professor in the Department of Philosophy at Hunter College from 1970. He has defended philosophical dualism.

Selected publications

Readings in the Theory of Action (Indiana University Press, 1968) The Foundations of Knowledge (Prentice-Hall, 1970) The Problem of Universals (Basic Books, 1971) Discourse and its Presuppositions (Yale University Press, 1972) Philosophy: An Introduction to the Central Issue (Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1985) Color and Consciousness: An Essay in Metaphysics (Temple University Press, 1989) The Eye and the Mind: Reflections on Perception and the Problem of Knowledge (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993) Introduction to Epistemology (Blackwell, 1996) Skepticism: The Central Issues (Wiley, 2002) Leibniz's Mill: A Challenge to Materialism (2011)