Arnold Zuboff | |
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Born | Arnold Stuart Zuboff 1946 (age 78–79) |
Education | |
Education |
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Thesis | Time, Self and Sleeping Beauty (2009) |
Doctoral advisor | Thomas Nagel |
Philosophical work | |
Era | Contemporary philosophy |
Institutions | University College London |
Main interests | Personal identity,philosophy of mind,ethics,metaphysics,epistemology,philosophy of probability |
Notable ideas | Sleeping Beauty problem Universalism |
Arnold Stuart Zuboff (born 1946) is an American philosopher. He is the original formulator of the Sleeping Beauty problem. [1] Zuboff has worked on topics such as personal identity,the philosophy of mind,ethics,metaphysics,epistemology,the philosophy of probability, [2] and a view analogous to open individualism—the position that there is one subject of experience,who is everyone—which he calls "universalism". [3] [4]
Arnold Stuart Zuboff [5] was born in 1946. [6] He was raised in West Hartford,Connecticut. [7]
Zuboff received a BA in philosophy from the University of Connecticut in 1968, [8] and attended Princeton University Graduate School until 1972. [9] In 2009,he successfully defended his thesis titled Time,Self,and Sleeping Beauty,under the supervision of his doctoral advisor,Thomas Nagel. His examiners were Gilbert Harman,Adam Elga,John P. Burgess,Alexander Nehamas,and Nagel. [10]
Zuboff lectured at the University College London's Department of Philosophy from 1974 till his retirement in 2011. [11] He is now an Honorary Senior Research Associate. [12]
Zuboff created a series of paintings and poems inspired by his dreams between the ages of 18 and 21,which he has made available online. [7]
Zuboff was a close friend and engaged in philosophical discussions with the Canadian philosopher G. A. Cohen. [13]