Roderick Firth
Roderick Firth (January 30, 1917 – December 22, 1987)[1] was an American philosopher. He was Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University from 1953 until his death.[1][2]
Education
[edit | edit source]Firth earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard in 1943. His thesis was entitled Sense-Data and the Principle of Reduction.
Career
[edit | edit source]He taught at Brown University before joining the Harvard faculty in 1953.[1]
Firth is noted for his defense of the ideal observer theory in ethics[3] and for his exploration of radical empiricism.[4] Firth also defended a form of semantic holism which he referred to as a "coherence theory of concepts" distinct from both the coherence theory of truth and coherence theory of justification.[5] Firth debated his views on the nature of concept formation and epistemic privilege with Wilfrid Sellars against whom he defended the views of C. I. Lewis.[6][7]
See also
[edit | edit source]References
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- ^ 1964 Journal of Philosophy 61 (19):545-557.
- ^ Firth, R. (1964). Coherence, Certainty, and Epistemic Priority. The Journal of Philosophy, 61(19), 545-557.
- ^ Sellars, W. (1981). Foundations for a metaphysics of pure process: The Carus lectures of Wilfrid Sellars. The Monist, 64(1).
- ^ Firth, R. (1981). Reply to Sellars. The Monist, 64(1), 91-101.
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