George Bealer | |
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Education | |
Education | University of California, Berkeley (PhD) |
Philosophical work | |
Era | 21st-century philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
Institutions | Yale University |
Main interests | philosophy of mind,epistemology |
Notable ideas | The Autonomy of Philosophy |
George Bealer (1944-2025) was an American philosopher and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Yale University. He is known for his works on philosophy of mind,philosophy of language,epistemology,and logic. [1] [2] [3] [4] Bealer is particularly well known for his work on the nature of the a priori and philosophical intuitions,where he defended the reliability of intuitions as a source of evidence in philosophical inquiry.
He was the author of Quality and Concept (Clarendon Press,1983),which developed a unified theory of properties,relations,and propositions. [5] He also co-edited The Waning of Materialism (2010) with Robert C. Koons,a volume addressing contemporary philosophical debates on the nature of mind and materialism. [6] [7] [8]
Bealer held academic positions at the University of Texas at Austin,the University of Colorado Boulder,and Reed College before joining Yale University. He completed his PhD at the University of California,Berkeley.