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James Tomberlin

Disciplines:
philosophy/philosophy of language
metaphysics
deontic logic

Summary

American philosopher who worked on agent-relative obligations in deontic logic, the metaphysics of action, and edited the Philosophical Perspectives series.

Core Contribution

Contributed to the analysis of agent-relative obligations in deontic logic — obligations whose content includes an indexical reference to the agent — and to the philosophy of action.

Notable Works & Achievements

Deontic Logic and the Logic of Imperatives

Historical Influences

Roderick Chisholm

Intellectual Lineage

Analytic Philosophy

Contemporaries & Peers

Alvin Plantinga Ernest Sosa

Minds Influenced

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Intellectual Posterity

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