RORTY, Amélie Oksenberg

RORTY, Amélie Oksenberg. American (born Belgium). Genres: Intellectual history, Philosophy. Career: Wheaton College, Norton, MA, instructor and assistant professor, 1957-61; Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, assistant professor, 1961-65, associate professor, 1965-72, and distinguished professor, 1972-88; Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA, Matina Horner Distinguished Visiting Professor, 1986-92; Mt. Holyoke College, S. Hadly, MA, professor of philosophy, 1989-95; Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, professor of the history of ideas, 1995-. Visiting Professor or lecturer at colleges and universities worldwide; Baumgardt Lecturer, American Philosophical Association, 1988. Publications: Mind in Action: Essays in the Philosophy of Mind, 1988. EDITOR: Pragmatic Philosophy, 1966; (gen. ed.) Modern Studies in Philosophy, 33 vols., 1966; The Identities of Persons, 1976; (gen. ed.) Major Thinkers, 5 vols., 1978; Explaining Emotions, 1979; Essays on Aristotle's Ethics, 1980; Essays on Descartes' Meditations, 1986; (with B.P. McLaughlin) Perspectives on Self Deception, 1988; (with O. Flanagan) Identity, Character and Morality: Essays in Moral Psychology, 1990; Essays on Aristotle's Poetics, 1990; Essays on Aristotle's Rhetoric, 1996; (with M. Nussbaum) Essays on Aristotle's Philosophy of Mind, 1992; Philosophers on Education, 1998; The Many Faces of Evil, 2001; The Many Faces of Philosophy, 2003. Address: Committee on Social Studies, Hilles Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A. Online address: rorty@fas.harvard.edu