Tamar Szabó Gendler (born December 20, 1965) is an American academic and philosopher. She has been the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Yale University,[1][2] where she is also the Vincent J. Scully Professor of Philosophy and a Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences. Her academic research focuses on issues in philosophical psychology, epistemology, metaphysics, and areas related to philosophical methodology.
After graduating from college, she worked for several years as an assistant to Linda Darling-Hammond at the RAND Corporation's education policy division in Washington, D.C.[8]
Gendler taught philosophy at Yale University (1996–97), Syracuse University (1997–2003) and Cornell University (2003–06), before returning to Yale in 2006 as a professor of philosophy and Chair of the Yale University Cognitive Science Program (2006–2010).[10] On July 1, 2010, she became Chair of the Yale University Department of Philosophy, becoming the first woman to hold that position in the department's history and the first female graduate of Yale College to chair a Yale Department. She held the position until 2013, when she was appointed as Deputy Provost for Humanities and Initiatives.[11]
Since July 2014, Gendler served as the inaugural Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Yale.[12][13] She will step down from that role at the end of the calendar year 2024.[14]
She is the author of Thought Experiments: On the Powers and Limits of Imaginary Cases (Routledge, 2000)[15] and Intuition, Imagination and Philosophical Methodology (Oxford, 2010),[16] and editor or co-editor of The Elements of Philosophy (Oxford 2008),[17]Perceptual Experience (Oxford, 2006),[18]Conceivability and Possibility (Oxford 2002). She is also co-editor of the journal Oxford Studies in Epistemology[19]and The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Methodology.[20]
Gendler is married to Zoltan Gendler Szabo, a philosopher and linguist who is also a professor at Yale University.[26][27] They have two children.
Bibliography
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Methodology. Co-edited by Tamar Szabo Gendler, Herman Cappelen, and John Hawthorne. NY/Oxford: Clarendon/Oxford University Press, 2016.
Intuition, Imagination and Philosophical Methodology: Selected Papers. NY/Oxford: Clarendon/Oxford University Press, 2010.
The Elements of Philosophy: Readings from Past and Present. Co-edited with Susanna Siegel and Steven M. Cahn, NY: Oxford, 2008.
Perceptual Experience. Co-edited with an introduction by Tamar Szabó Gendler and John Hawthorne. NY/Oxford: Clarendon/Oxford University Press, 2006.
Conceivability and Possibility. Co-edited with an introduction by Tamar Szabó Gendler and John Hawthorne. NY/Oxford: Clarendon/Oxford University Press, 2002.
Thought Experiment: On the Powers and Limits of Imaginary Cases. NY: Routledge, 2000.
References
^Lloyd-Thomas, Matthew (May 21, 2015). "Salovey names new deans". Yale Daily News. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
^results, search (2007-12-26). Gendler, Tamar Szabo; Siegel, Susanna (eds.). The Elements of Philosophy: Readings from Past and Present (1st ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN9780195335422.
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