Princeton philosopher Gideon Rosen is among two faculty and three Princeton alumni who have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He joins 250 leaders in academia, the arts, business, government and public affairs elected this year in their respective fields.
Rosen, Princeton’s Stuart Professor of Philosophy and a 1992 Ph.D. alumnus of Princeton, joined the Princeton faculty in 1993. He researches metaphysics, the philosophy of mathematics, ethics, meta-ethics and moral philosophy. He co-authored A Subject With No Object with John Burgess and was co-editor of the 2015 issue of The Norton Introduction to Philosophy. Rosen also chaired Princeton’s Council of the Humanities from 2006 to 2014 and directed the Program in Linguistics from 2010 to 2014. He is currently a member of the Program in Journalism’s Executive Committee.