- Lived:
- 1929–2023 · Langhorne, Pennsylvania → New York → New Haven → Princeton → Santa Monica
- Tradition:
- American analytic philosophy — free will, moral psychology, and the philosophy of caring and love
- The Big Idea:
- What makes you you is not what you know or what you can prove but what you care about — and freedom is not having endless open options, but having the will you actually want to have.
- In their words:
- Bullshit, he argued, is "a greater enemy of the truth than lies are."
- If you remember one thing:
- He wrote a handful of short papers that each launched an entire field — and at seventy-six, a sixty-seven-page pamphlet with an unprintable title made him the most famous philosopher in America.