Michael Friedman (philosopher)
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| Born | April 2, 1947 Brookline, Massachusetts |
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Queens College, City University of New York Princeton University |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western Philosophy |
| School | Analytic philosophy |
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Main interests
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Philosophy of science, philosophy of physics, history of philosophy, Kantianism |
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Notable ideas
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Dynamics of reason, retrospective communicative rationality, relativized a priori principles as paradigms |
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Influences
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Michael Friedman (born April 2, 1947) is an American philosopher of science, best known for his work on scientific explanation, philosophy of physics and Immanuel Kant. Friedman has also done important historical work on figures in Continental philosophy such as Martin Heidegger and Ernst Cassirer.
Friedman earned his A.B. from Queens College, City University of New York in New York in 1969 and his PhD from Princeton University in 1973. He is now Frederick P. Rehmus Family Professor of Humanities at Stanford University. Before moving to Stanford in 2002, Friedman taught at Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Illinois, Chicago, and Indiana University. He is married to the philosopher Graciela de Pierris, who is an associate professor of philosophy at Stanford.
Friedman has been a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences since 1997. Four of his articles have been selected as among the "ten best" of their year by the Philosopher's Annual.
Friedman's initial work was on the nature of scientific explanation and the philosophy of physics. His first book on Foundations of Space-Time Theories published by Princeton University Press in 1983 won the Matchette Prize (what is now known as the "Book Prize") from the American Philosophical Association, to recognize work by a younger scholar. It also won the Lakatos Award from the London School of Economics to recognize outstanding work in philosophy of science.
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