Stanley Cavell (1926 to 2018) was an American philosopher who taught at Harvard University for most of his career and held its Walter M. Cabot chair of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, he trained first as a musician before turning to philosophy, where he was shaped by the ordinary language philosophy of J. L. Austin. He worked in ethics, aesthetics and ordinary language philosophy and produced influential interpretations of Wittgenstein, Austin, Emerson, Thoreau and Heidegger, in writing marked by a conversational tone and frequent literary references. His major work, The Claim of Reason, treats skepticism not as a doctrine to be refuted but as a condition of human knowing that must be acknowledged, and his thought reached into literature, opera and film.
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Stanley Cavell (1926 - 2018) was an American philosopher of the Contemporary era, associated with Analytic Philosophy.
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Cavell was born as Stanley Louis Goldstein to a Jewish family in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Stanley Cavell (1926 - 2018) was an American philosopher of the Contemporary era, associated with Analytic Philosophy.
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The Claim of Reason, his magnum opus, reread skepticism not as a doctrine to be refuted but as a condition of human knowing to be acknowledged.
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After early studies at Berkeley and Harvard, where he taught for the rest of his career
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Stanley Cavell (1926 - 2018) was an American philosopher of the Contemporary era, associated with Analytic Philosophy.
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Stanley Cavell (1926 - 2018) was an American philosopher of the Contemporary era, associated with Analytic Philosophy.
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Stanley Cavell (1926 - 2018) was an American philosopher of the Contemporary era, associated with Analytic Philosophy.
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The Claim of Reason, his magnum opus, reread skepticism not as a doctrine to be refuted but as a condition of human knowing to be acknowledged.
Influenced By: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Lead, sources woven together
he wove together the legacies of ordinary-language philosophy, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Emerson, and Thoreau
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he wove together the legacies of ordinary-language philosophy, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Emerson, and Thoreau
Influenced By: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Lead, sources woven together
he wove together the legacies of ordinary-language philosophy, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Emerson, and Thoreau
Influenced By: Henry David Thoreau, Lead, sources woven together
he wove together the legacies of ordinary-language philosophy, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Emerson, and Thoreau
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Filosofo statunitense (Atlanta 1926 - Boston 2018)
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