Tamar Gendler
Tamar Szabó Gendler | |
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Dean of Faculty of Arts and Sciences | |
Assumed office July 1, 2014 | |
Appointed by | Peter Salovey |
Personal details | |
Born | Princeton, New Jersey, U.S. | 20 December 1965
Spouse | Zoltan Szabo |
Residence(s) | Hamden, Connecticut, U.S. |
Education | Phillips Academy |
Alma mater | Harvard University Yale University |
Website | http://tamar-gendler.yale.edu |
Tamar Szabó Gendler (born December 20, 1965) is an American philosopher. She is the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Yale.
Biography
Education and employment
Gendler was born in 1965 in Princeton, New Jersey to Mary and Everett Gendler, a Conservative rabbi. She grew up in Andover, Massachusetts, where she attended the Andover public schools and then Phillips Academy Andover.[3]
As an undergraduate, she studied at Yale University, where she was a championship debater in the American Parliamentary Debate Association and a member of Manuscript Society.[4] She graduated summa cum laude in 1987 with Distinction in Humanities and Math & Philosophy.
After graduating from college, she worked for several years as an assistant to Linda Darling-Hammond at the RAND Corporation's education policy division in Washington, DC.[5]
In 1996, she earned her philosophy Ph.D. at Harvard University, with Robert Nozick, Derek Parfit and Hilary Putnam as her advisors.[6]
Gendler taught philosophy at
Since July 2014, Gendler served as the inaugural Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Yale.[9][10]
Gendler is married to Zoltan Gendler Szabo, a philosopher and linguist who is also a professor at Yale University.[11][12] They have two children.
Honors and professional accomplishments
Gendler has held Fellowships from the
She is the author of Thought Experiments: On the Powers and Limits of Imaginary Cases (Routledge, 2000)[17] and Intuition, Imagination and Philosophical Methodology (Oxford, 2010),[18] and editor or co-editor of The Elements of Philosophy (Oxford 2008),[19] Perceptual Experience (Oxford, 2006),[20] Conceivability and Possibility (Oxford 2002). She is also co-editor of the journal Oxford Studies in Epistemology[21] and The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Methodology.[22]
Her philosophical articles have appeared in journals such as the
She also lectures occasionally for non-professional audiences as a professor with One Day University[24] and as a diavlogger on bloggingheads.tv where she runs The Mind Report with her colleagues Laurie R. Santos, Paul Bloom and Joshua Knobe.[25] She also serves on the Board of Advisors of the Marc Sanders Foundation,[26] which awards prizes for outstanding work in philosophy.
On September 3, 2013, Gendler delivered the Keynote address to Yale freshmen during the class of 2017 matriculation ceremony. Her topic was "Keeping inconsistency in your pockets."[27]
She is best known for her work on
Bibliography
- The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Methodology. Co-edited by Tamar Szabo Gendler, Herman Cappelen, and John Hawthorne. NY/Oxford: Clarendon/Oxford University Press, 2016.
- Intuition, Imagination and Philosophical Methodology: Selected Papers. NY/Oxford: Clarendon/Oxford University Press, 2010.
- The Elements of Philosophy: Readings from Past and Present. Co-edited with Susanna Siegel and Steven M. Cahn, NY: Oxford, 2008.
- Perceptual Experience. Co-edited with an introduction by Tamar Szabó Gendler and John Hawthorne. NY/Oxford: Clarendon/Oxford University Press, 2006.
- Conceivability and Possibility. Co-edited with an introduction by Tamar Szabó Gendler and John Hawthorne. NY/Oxford: Clarendon/Oxford University Press, 2002.
- Thought Experiment: On the Powers and Limits of Imaginary Cases. NY: Routledge, 2000.
References
- ^ Lloyd-Thomas, Matthew (May 21, 2015). "Salovey names new deans". Yale Daily News. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
- ^ "Faculty of Arts and Sciences". Retrieved 2015-11-12.
- ^ "Class Notes" (PDF). Andover Bulletin. Summer 2008. p. 91. Retrieved 2010-05-27.
- ^ "YDA Alumni Reunion". Yaledebate.org. Archived from the original on March 28, 2010. Retrieved 2010-05-27.
- ^ "Reports & Bookstore | Authors | G | Tamar Gendler". RAND. Retrieved 2010-05-27.
- ^ "Tamar Gendler About". Pantheon.yale.edu. 2009-10-19. Retrieved 2010-05-27.
- ^ Marsden, Jessica (2 March 2006). "Philosophy takes steps to rebuild". Yale Daily News. Retrieved 21 April 2014.
- ^ "Gendler appointed deputy provost for the humanities and initiatives". Office of the Provost. Yale University. 30 August 2013. Retrieved 20 April 2014.
- ^ "New deans to lead Yale College, the Graduate School, and (For the first time) the FAS". 21 May 2014.
- ^ "Salovey names new deans". 21 May 2014.
- ^ "WEDDINGS; Tamar Gendler, Zoltan Szabo". New York Times. 1995-06-18. Retrieved 2010-05-27.
- ^ "Philosophy recruits five new profs". Yale Daily News. 2006-02-28. Archived from the original on 2013-02-09. Retrieved 2010-05-27.
- ^ "ACLS Annual Report 2005-2007" (PDF). Retrieved 2010-05-27.
- ^ "New Directions Fellowships". The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Archived from the original on 10 January 2010. Retrieved 21 April 2014.
- ^ "Tamar Gendler appointed the Vincent J. Scully Professor". Yale News. 4 December 2012. Retrieved 20 April 2014.
- ^ "Yale College Teaching Prizes 2013". Yale College. 2013. Retrieved 21 April 2014.
- ISBN 9780815336563.
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- ISBN 9780195335422.
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- ISBN 9780199237067.
- ISBN 9780199668779.
- ^ "Philosopher's Annual". Philosophersannual.org. Retrieved 2010-05-27.
- ^ "One Day University | Live Classes, Adult Education & Local Classes". Onedayu.com. Retrieved 2010-05-27.
- ^ "Bloggingheads.tv". Bloggingheads.tv. Retrieved 2010-05-27.
- ^ "Who's Who | Marc Sanders Foundation". www.marcsandersfoundation.org. Archived from the original on 2013-12-08.
- ^ "To freshmen: Keeping inconsistency in your pockets". YaleNews. 2013-09-03. Retrieved 2018-05-15.
- ^ "Thought Experiments (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)". Plato.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2010-05-27.
- ^ "Tamar Szabó Gendler, The puzzle of imaginative resistance". PhilPapers. 2009-01-27. Retrieved 2010-05-27.
- ^ "Introspection (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)". Plato.stanford.edu. 2010-02-02. Retrieved 2010-05-27.
Sources
- Tamar Szabó Gendler's website
- Yale Daily News, "Professor goes back to school" (2009)
- PhilPapers archive link to Gendler's professional papers
- Cornell Sun, "Cornell Loses Philosophy Profs" (2006)
- Yale Daily News', "Philosophy Takes Steps to Rebuild" (2006)