Tamar Gendler
| Tamar Gendler | |
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| Born | Tamar Szabó Gendler December 20, 1965 Princeton, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Residence | Hamden, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Philosophy, psychology |
| Institutions |
Yale University Cornell University Syracuse University |
| Education | Phillips Academy |
| Alma mater |
Harvard University Yale University |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert Nozick, Derek Parfit, Hilary Putnam |
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Website http://tamar-gendler.yale.edu |
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Tamar Szabó Gendler (born December 20, 1965) is an American philosopher of psychology and the inaugural Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Yale as well as the Vincent J. Scully Professor of Philosophy and a Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences at Yale University. Her research areas include philosophical psychology, epistemology, metaphysics and issues related to philosophical methodology.
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.
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. 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.
In 1996, she earned her philosophy Ph.D. at Harvard University, with Robert Nozick, Derek Parfit and Hilary Putnam as her advisors.
Gendler taught philosophy at Yale University (1996–97), Syracuse University (1997–2003) and Cornell University (2003–06), before returning to Yale in 2006 as Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Yale University Cognitive Science Program (2006–2010). On July 1, 2010, she became Chair of the Yale University Department of Philosophy, becoming the first woman to hold that position in the department’s history and the first female graduate of Yale College to chair a Yale Department. She held the position until 2013, when she was appointed as Deputy Provost for Humanities and Initiatives. Since July 2014 she has been the inaugural Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Yale.
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