World Philosophy Atlas
Pittsburgh
- Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, gathered philosophers of science, logicians and theorists of rational choice in the later twentieth century. Herbert Simon arrived in 1949 to help build the Graduate School of Industrial Administration at the Carnegie Institute of Technology. Wilfrid Sellars moved to the University of Pittsburgh in 1963 and stayed until his death in 1989. Carl Hempel taught there after retiring from Princeton in 1973, David Gauthier from 1980 and Wesley Salmon from 1981 to 1999. Iris Marion Young taught political theory there for nine years, and Ernest Sosa and Bas van Fraassen earned doctorates at the university.
When
- 1949–1999 Science, logic and rational choice From Simon's arrival to Salmon's retirement.
Schools and institutions
- University of Pittsburgh Sellars, Hempel, Gauthier and Salmon taught here.
- Carnegie Institute of Technology Simon helped found its Graduate School of Industrial Administration from 1949.
Thinkers
- Wilfrid Sellars 1912 – 1989taught here, 1963–1989 (Moved to the University of Pittsburgh in 1963 and remained until his death in 1989.)
- Carl Hempel 1905 – 1997taught here, 1973 (Taught at the University of Pittsburgh after retiring from Princeton in 1973.)
- Herbert Simon 1916 – 2001taught here, 1949 (Left Chicago in 1949 to help build the new Graduate School of Industrial Administration at the Carnegie Institute of Technology.)
- Wesley Salmon 1925 – 2001taught here, 1981–1999 (Moved to the University of Pittsburgh in 1981; University Professor from 1983 until his retirement in 1999.)
- David Gauthier 1932 – 2023taught here, 1980 (Member of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh from 1980.)
- Iris Marion Young 1949 – 2006taught here, 2000 (Taught political theory for nine years in the University of Pittsburgh's graduate school of public and international affairs.)
- Larry Laudan 1941 – 2022taught here (Held a post at the University of Pittsburgh, among others in London, Virginia, Chicago, Konstanz and Hawaii.)
- Ernest Sosa b. 1940studied here (PhD from the University of Pittsburgh.)
- Bas van Fraassen b. 1941studied here, 1966 (MA (1964) and PhD (1966) in philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh.)
- Shelly Kagantaught here (Taught at the University of Pittsburgh before the University of Illinois at Chicago.)
Sources: SEP: Wilfrid Sellars · SEP: Carl Hempel · Nobel Prize: Herbert A. Simon, biographical · SEP: Wesley Salmon · University of Pittsburgh: David Gauthier · University of Chicago Chronicle: Iris Marion Young obituary (2006) · UNAM Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas: Larry Laudan · Rutgers University: Ernest Sosa · Bas van Fraassen: curriculum vitae (San Francisco State University) · Shelly Kagan: about (Yale)