John Perry (philosopher)

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John Perry is an American philosopher known for his influential work in the philosophy of language, personal identity, and the nature of the self.

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instanceOf American philosopher
human
philosopher
academicDegree PhD in philosophy
academicStatus professor emeritus at Stanford University
awardReceived Guggenheim Fellowship
Jean Nicod Prize
birthDate 1943-01-16
birthPlace Lincoln, Nebraska
surface form: Lincoln, Nebraska, United States
coAuthor John Martin Fischer
Jon Barwise
Michael Bratman
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
doctoralAdvisor Sydney Shoemaker
educatedAt Cornell University
Doane College
employer Stanford University
University of California, Riverside
University of Michigan
familyName Perry
fieldOfWork indexicals
metaphysics
personal identity
philosophy of action
philosophy of language
philosophy of mind
practical reasoning
self-knowledge
genre analytic philosophy
givenName John
hasWebsite http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~perry/
influencedBy David Kaplan
Gottlob Frege
Sydney Shoemaker
knownFor contributions to situation semantics
work on indexicals and demonstratives
work on personal identity and the self
work on the essential indexical
language English
memberOf American Academy of Arts and Sciences
name John Perry
notableWork “A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality”
“Frege on Demonstratives”
“Knowledge, Possibility, and Consciousness”
“Personal Identity”
“Reference and Reflexivity”
“Situations and Attitudes”
“The Problem of the Essential Indexical”
philosophicalTradition analytic philosophy
positionHeld Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at University of California, Riverside
Henry Waldgrave Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University

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