Samuel Scheffler

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Full Name	Samuel Scheffler
Occupation	Philosopher
Date Of Birth	Oct 20, 1951(1951-10-20)
Age	73
Country	United States
Horoscope	Libra

Samuel Scheffler Biography

Samuel Scheffler is one of the most popular and richest Philosopher who was born on October 20, 1951 in United States.

Before moving to NYU in 2008, Scheffler taught for 31 years at the University of California, Berkeley. Scheffler received his PhD from Princeton University, where he was a student of the distinguished philosopher Thomas Nagel. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2004.

His most recent book, Death and the Afterlife, based on his Tanner Lectures at University of California, Berkeley has generated considerable attention for its argument that much that we value in life depends on the assumption that life will continue long after our death. As the Princeton philosopher Mark Johnston explained in the Boston Review: “In Scheffler’s self-consciously idiosyncratic use of the term, the ‘afterlife’ is neither a supernatural continuation of this life, nor the result of a deeper naturalistic understanding of the kind of thing we are; it is what John Stuart Mill called ‘the onward rush of mankind,’ the collective life of humanity after our individual deaths. Scheffler’s thesis is that the onward rush of humankind—the collective afterlife—is much more important to us than we are ordinarily apt to notice.” Assessing the argument, the English philosopher John Cottingham wrote: “Scheffler has produced a superb essay – indeed it seems to me about as good as analytic philosophy gets. It is entirely free from obfuscating jargon and other tiresome tricks of the trade, yet it is meticulously argued and demanding in exactly the right way – forcing us to think about hitherto unexamined implications of our existing beliefs.”

Samuel Scheffler Net Worth

Samuel Scheffler is one of the richest Philosopher from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Samuel Scheffler 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Samuel Ira Scheffler (born 1951) is a moral and political philosopher who is University Professor in the Department of Philosophy and the Law School at New York University.

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Paul Ranked on the list of most popular Philosopher. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Samuel Scheffler celebrates birthday on October 20 of every year.