About Samuel Guttenplan
Born 1944. Samuel Guttenplan is a British philosopher.
Samuel D. Guttenplan (born 1944 in New York City) is a professor in philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London. Guttenplan earned his DPhil from the University of Oxford with a dissertation directed by John McDowell. He has interests in the philosophies of mind, language, philosophical logic and ethics. His current work centres on the origins of human conceptual thought, and he is contracted to produce The Roots of Categorization for Oxford University Press in 2009–10.
He is executive editor of the interdisciplinary journal Mind & Language.
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Samuel Guttenplan was born on 26 July 1944.
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