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Professor of Philosophy
D.Phil. 1966 (philosophy), Oxford
B.A. 1962 (philosophy), Swarthmore College.
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Research Interests: metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, ethics
Fellowships/Honors: Guggenheim Foundation
National Endowment for the Humanities
Selected Works:
PETER UNGER (B. A., Swarthmore College, D. Phil., Oxford)
has been a Professor of Philosophy at NYU for more than thirty years.
During that time, he has made contributions to Metaphysics, to
Epistemology, to Ethics, and to the Philosophy of Mind. He is the
author of Ignorance: A
Case for Scepticism (Oxford, 1975 and 2002); Philosophical
Relativity (Blackwell and Minnesota, 1984; Oxford, 2002); Identity,
Consciousness and Value (Oxford, 1990); and Living High and
Letting Die: Our Illusion of Innocence (Oxford, 1996). (By
clicking on the blue underlined titles of those works, in the just
previous sentence, you can order the books, from Oxford University
Press, very conveniently.)
More recently, the Oxford University Press brought forth Unger’s most substantial work, by far. And, since latish October of 2007, the OUP has made available a much more reasonably priced paperback edition of All the Power in the World, a weighty tome many of you can affordably acquire via clicking on the colorful underlined book-title just earlier in this very sentence. For a sample of the book, you can access one of its ten chapters, by clicking right here - which will also make available all its front matter, including its table of contents.
Also quite recently, the OUP brought forth a two-volume collection comprising some twenty-two of Unger's previously published philosophical papers. No great surprise, the first of them is called Philosophical Papers, Volume 1 and the second bears the name Philosophical Papers, Volume 2. To see an early version of front matter for Volume 1, you should click here.
To see an early version of front matter for Volume 2, you should click here.
Since the fall of 2005, Unger has been working on a new book, largely concerned with metaphilosophy, which has the working title Beyond Inanity. And, while most of it has now been written (as of the summer of 2009) he plans to work on this book during the next several years, seeing it through to a fairly satisfactory finished form. As improved draft-chapters emerge from his ongoing work, Unger will make them available on this Webpage, trying to do so in a timely manner. In order, here’s clickable access to the present version of the book’s seven draft-chapters, and a table of contents for the book-in-progress.
As soon as any of these draft-chapters becomes very significantly altered, Unger intends to replace it with its very significantly changed descendant. And, as soon as further decently readable draft-chapters emerge from his work, he intends to post them on this site, as well. For help in improving the drafts of Beyond Inanity, Professor Unger eagerly welcomes critical comments on this on-going work, which may be sent to him at his NYU email address: peter.unger@nyu.edu
Online Papers
- "The Survival of the Sentient", Philosophical Perspectives, Vol. 14, 2000.
- "Free Will and Scientificalism", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 65, 2002.
- "The Mental Problems of the Many", a (slightly) more polished draft will appear in Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, Vol. 1, edited by Dean Zimmerman, 2004.
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