Gary Gutting

Gary Michael Gutting (April 11, 1942 – January 18, 2019) was an American philosopher and holder of an endowed chair in philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. His daughter is writer Tasha Alexander.

Work Gutting was an expert on the philosopher Michel Foucault and an editor of Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. Through his publications in such media outlets as The New York Times and The Stone, he adopted the role of a public intellectual. He dealt with both continental and analytic philosophy and had written on bridging the analytic–continental divide.

Books Talking God: Philosophers on Belief, W. W. Norton & Company, 2016 What Philosophy Can Do, W. W. Norton & Company, 2015 Thinking the Impossible: French Philosophy since 1960, Oxford University Press, 2011 What Philosophers Know: Case Studies in Recent Analytic Philosophy, Cambridge University Press, 2009 Foucault: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2005 French Philosophy in the Twentieth Century, Cambridge University Press, 2001 Pragmatic Liberalism and the Critique of Modernity, Cambridge University Press, 1999 Michel Foucault's Archaeology of Scientific Reason, Cambridge University Press, 1989 Religious Belief and Religious Skepticism, University of Notre Dame Press, 1982 Paradigms and Revolutions: Appraisals and Applications of Thomas Kuhn's Philosophy of Science. South Bend, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1980 (ed.) Continental Philosophy of Science, Blackwell Publishers, 2005