Jesse Prinz
Jesse Prinz | |
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| Employer(s) | CUNY Graduate Center University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Washington University in St. Louis |
| Education | |
| Education | University of Chicago |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic philosophy |
| Main interests | Philosophy of mind, moral psychology, ethics |
Jesse J. Prinz is an American philosopher who is Distinguished Professor of philosophy and Director of the Committee for Interdisciplinary Science Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Prinz works primarily in the philosophy of psychology and ethics and has authored several books and over 100 articles, addressing such topics as concepts, emotions, moral psychology, attention, consciousness and aesthetics. Much of his work in these areas has been a defense of empiricism against psychological nativism, and he situates his work as in the naturalistic tradition of philosophy associated with David Hume. Prinz is also an advocate of experimental philosophy.