Paul Artin Boghossian

New York University, New York, New York ~Silver Professor of Philosophy. Has developed arguments for the claim that cognition poses as powerful a challenge to a physicalist understanding of the mind as consciousness does; that privileged self-knowledge cannot be reconciled with an externalist conception of mental content; that the notion of analyticity, properly understood, can be used to give an account of a priori knowledge, including that of our knowledge of logic; that reasoning may be viewed as consisting in a type of rule-following; that relativistic views of normative domains, such as morality, can be made sense of only under conditions that deprive them of plausibility; that colors, properly understood, are not the properties of external objects; and that absolute music may be said to possess a certain expressive meaning. Less-specialized writings have appeared in The Times Literary Supplement, The New Republic, and The New York Times, among other publications.~~