Tamar Gendler

Quick Facts

Full Name	Tamar Gendler
Occupation	Philosopher
Date Of Birth	Dec 20, 1965(1965-12-20)
Age	59
Birthplace	Princeton
Country	United States
Birth City	New Jersey
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Tamar Gendler Biography

Tamar Gendler is one of the most popular and richest Philosopher who was born on December 20, 1965 in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Gendler was born on the 15th of May, 1965 in Princeton, New Jersey to Mary Gendler and Everett Gendler, a Conservative Rabbi. Gendler grew up within Andover, Massachusetts, where she was educated at her public school in the Andover public schools before moving to Phillips Academy Andover.

She is the writer of Thought Experiments: On the power and Limits of Imagined Cases (Routledge 2000) and Intuition, Imagination and Philosophical Methodology (Oxford, 2010), and editor or co-editor of The Elements of Philosophy (Oxford 2008) Perceptual Experience (Oxford 2006) and The Concept of Conceivability and the Possibility (Oxford 2002). She is also the co-editor of The Oxford Studies in Epistemology journal. Oxford Studies in Epistemology and The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Methodology.

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.

Gendler has held Fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship Program in the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies/Ryskamp Fellowship Program, the Collegium Budapest Institute for Advanced Studies, and the Mellon New Directions Program. In 2012, she was appointed as the Vincent J. Scully Professor of Philosophy at Yale. In 2013, she was awarded the Yale College-Sidonie Miskimin Clauss ’75 Prize for Excellence in Teaching in the Humanities.

The year 1996 was the time she received her philosophical Ph.D. in philosophy at Harvard University, with Robert Nozick, Derek Parfit and Hilary Putnam as her advisors.

Tamar Gendler Net Worth

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

Tamar Szabo Gendler (born on December 20th 1965) is Dean of Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Yale and is also the Vincent J. Scully Professor of Philosophy and a Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences at Yale University. Her research is focused on questions in the field of epistemology, philosophy of mind metaphysics, and other the areas of philosophical methodology.

In her undergraduate years she was a student at Yale University, where she was a top debater for the American Parliamentary Debate Association and was a member of the Manuscript Society. She graduated from summa cum laude in 1987, with distinction on Humanities, as well as Math and Philosophy.

Her philosophical articles have appeared in journals such as the Journal of Philosophy, Mind, Philosophical Perspectives, Mind & Language, Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Philosophical Studies, and The Philosophical Quarterly. Her 2008 essay “Alief and Belief” was selected by the Philosopher’s Annual as one of the 10 best articles published in philosophy in 2008.

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Tamar Ranked on the list of most popular Philosopher. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Tamar Gendler celebrates birthday on December 20 of every year.

Top Facts about Tamar Gendler

1. Tamar Gendler is a prominent American philosopher.
2. She is the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Yale University.
3. Gendler specializes in philosophy of mind, epistemology, and metaphysics.
4. She has published numerous articles and books on these topics.
5. In 2017, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
6. Gendler received her PhD from Harvard University in 1996.
7. She has taught at Cornell University, Syracuse University, and Yale University.
8. Gendler is also known for her work on philosophical puzzles and thought experiments.
9. Her TEDx talk “An Introduction to the Philosophy of Reflection” has over 1 million views.
10. Gendler is a recipient of several awards for teaching excellence at Yale University.