Richard Fumerton | |
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| Born | October 7, 1949 |
| Education | University of Toronto (B.A.) Brown University (M.A., PhD) |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic philosophy |
| Thesis | Phenomenalism (1974) |
| Doctoral advisors | Roderick Chisholm, Ernest Sosa, J. Van Cleve[1] |
Main interests | epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, value theory |
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Richard Anthony Fumerton (born October 7, 1949)[2] is a Canadian American philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of Iowa with research interests in epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of mind and value theory.[3][4][5] He has been cited as an influential expert on the position of "metaepistemological scepticism".[6] He received his B.A. in philosophy from the University of Toronto in 1971 and his M.A. and PhD from Brown University in 1973 and 1974, respectively.[2][5][7] He has been the F. Wendell Miller Professor of Philosophy at the University of Iowa since 2003.[8]
- ^ "Doctoral Dissertations, 1974". The Review of Metaphysics. 28 (1): 166–189. 1974. ISSN 0034-6632. JSTOR 20126618.
- ^ a b Richard Fumerton Curriculum Vitae, available via The University of Iowa
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- ^ a b "Richard Fumerton | Department of Philosophy | College of Liberal Arts & Sciences". The University of Iowa. Retrieved 2021-05-24.
- ^ Pritchard, Duncan; Ranalli, Chris (2016). "On Metaepistemological Scepticism" (PDF). In Bergmann, Michael; Coppenger, Brett (eds.). Intellectual Assurance: Essays on Traditional Epistemic Internalism. Oxford University Press.
Since at least the mid-1990s, there has been a wave of 'anti-externalist' replies to externalist responses to scepticism. Richard Fumerton has been one of the most influential figures in this wave, and alongside Barry Stroud his contributions to this debate are the most well-known. Indeed, one often finds Fumerton and Stroud being jointly identified as defenders of a position known as 'metaepistemological scepticism'.
- ^ Mulugeta, Mikael (2016-01-27). "Talking political philosophy and freedom". Iowa Now. Retrieved 2021-05-24.
- ^ "Richard Fumerton". Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs. Georgetown University. Retrieved 2021-05-24.