Paul Boghossian

Silver Professor of Philosophy, NYU
Director, Global Institute for Advanced Study, NYU

Paul Artin Boghossian is Silver Professor of Philosophy at NYU and Director of its Global Institute for Advanced Study.  He earned a PhD in Philosophy from Princeton University and a B.Sc. in Physics from Trent University.

Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012, his research interests are primarily in epistemology, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language. He has written on a wide range of topics, including naturalism, self-knowledge, a priori knowledge, analytic truth, moral realism and relativism, aesthetics, and the concept of genocide. He is the author of Fear of Knowledge: Against Relativism and Constructivism (Oxford, 2006), which has been translated into thirteen languages, including Chinese, Japanese, Farsi, Spanish, German, Italian, and French; Content and Justification (Oxford, 2008); and Debating the A Priori (with Timothy Williamson, Oxford, 2020).  He is currently at work on a book on norms.

At NYU since 1991, he has also taught at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Princeton, the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, and has served as Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Birmingham in the UK.

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A nomenclator was a slave whose duty was to accompanying his master in canvassing the streets of Classical Rome in order to recall the names of those his master encountered. Each of us is, in a way, both that ancient politician and that slave, relying on others’ memories to supply us with knowledge, and others... read more! »

Saturday, October 14th, 2017 at 2:30pm

“Fake” Knowledge: Knowing and the Illusion of Knowing

A nomenclator was a slave whose duty was to accompanying his master in canvassing the streets of Classical Rome in order to recall the names of those his master encountered. Each of us is, in a way, both that ancient politician and that slave, relying on others’ memories to supply us with knowledge, and others... read more! »
This roundtable discusses various philosophical and scientific perspectives on consciousness, focusing on the theories of Eliminativism and 4E Cognition.

September 21st, 2024 at 2:30PM

Come Out Wherever You Are: In Search of Consciousness

This roundtable discusses various philosophical and scientific perspectives on consciousness, focusing on the theories of Eliminativism and 4E Cognition.