Stanley Cavell

Stanley Louis Cavell (fæddur 1. september 1926; d. 19. juni 2018) var bandarískur heimspekingur. Hann er „Walter M. Cabot“-prófessor emeritus í fagurfræði á Harvard-háskóla. 

 Æviágrip 
Cavell fæddist í Atlanta í Georgíu í Bandaríkjunum. Foreldrar Cavells voru gyðingar.

Cavell stundaði tónlistarnám og brautsrkáðist frá Kaliforníuháskóla í Berkeley með B.A.-gráðu í tónlist árið 1947.

 Heimspeki 
Cavell hlaut þjálfun í rökgreiningarheimspeki en á oft í orðræðu við heimspekinga meginlandshefðarinnar. Hann er þekktur fyrir að fjalla um heimspeki í sambandi við kvikmyndir og bókmenntir. 

Cavell hefur ritað margt um heimspeki Ludwigs Wittgenstein, J.L. Austin, Martins Heidegger, Henrys Thoreau og Ralphs Waldos Emerson.

 Helstu rit Cavells 
 Must We Mean What We Say? (1969)
 The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film (1971)
 The Senses of Walden (1972)
 The Claim of Reason: Wittgenstein, Skepticism, Morality, and Tragedy (1979)
 Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage (1981)
 Themes Out of School: Effects and Causes (1984)
 Disowning Knowledge: In Six Plays of Shakespeare (1987); 2. útg.: Disowning Knowledge: In Seven Plays of Shakespeare (2003)
 In Quest of the Ordinary: Lines of Scepticism and Romanticism (1988)
 This New Yet Unapproachable America: Lectures after Emerson after Wittgenstein (1988)
 Conditions Handsome and Unhandsome: The Constitution of Emersonian Perfectionism (1990)
 A Pitch of Philosophy: Autobiographical Exercises (1994)
 Philosophical Passages: Wittgenstein, Emerson, Austin, Derrida (1995)
 Contesting Tears: The Melodrama of the Unknown Woman (1996)
 Emerson's Transcendental Etudes (2003)
 Cities of Words: Pedagogical Letters on a Register of the Moral Life (2004)
 Philosophy the Day after Tomorrow (2005)

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