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Richard Taylor is professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Rochester.

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Fødselsdato
1919
Dødsdag
2003-10-30
Køn
male
Nationalitet
USA
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professor (Philosophy)
philosopher
Faculty, University of Rochester (Philosophy)
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Brown University
Columbia University
University of Rochester
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Richard Taylor (November 5, 1919 – October 30, 2003) was an American philosopher renowned for his dry wit and his contributions to metaphysics. He was also an internationally-known beekeeper. Taylor took his PhD at Brown University, where his supervisor was Roderick Chisholm. He taught at Brown University, Columbia and the University of Rochester, and had visiting appointments at about a dozen other institutions. His best known book was Metaphysics (1963). Other works included Action and Purpose (1966), Good and Evil (1970) and Virtue Ethics (1991). Professor Taylor was also the editor of The Will to Live: Selected Writings of Arthur Schopenhauer . He was an enthusiastic advocate of virtue ethics. He also wrote influential papers on the meaning of life, which, like Albert Camus, he explored through an examination of the myth of Sisyphus. [retrieved 10/8/12 from Amazon.com]

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