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James Ferguson Conant (born June 10, 1958) is an American philosopher at the University of Chicago who has written extensively on topics in philosophy of language, ethics, and metaphilosophy.
James Bryant Conant (March 26, 1893 – February 11, 1978) was an American chemist, a transformative President of Harvard University, and the first U.S. Ambassador to West Germany. Conant obtained a Ph.D. in chemistry from Harvard in 1916.
James Conant is Chester D. Tripp Professor of Humanities, Professor of Philosophy, and Professor in the College at the University of Chicago, as well as Humboldt Professor at the University of Leipzig.
Jim Conant. Professor Department of Mathematics. Research Interests: knot theory; low dimensional topology; geometric group theory; philosophy of mind; Background: I do research in low-dimensional topology and geometric group theory. I am particularly drawn to questions involving graphs and graph homology.
JAMES FERGUSON CONANT Curriculum Vitae Address Department of Philosophy University of Chicago 1115 E. 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637 Personal Data U.S. citizen; born on June 10, 1958 in Kyoto, Japan Academic Employment 1991-1992, 1993-1998 Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh
A seminal 1991 paper, James Conant’s “The Search for Logically Alien Thought,” placed that question at the forefront of contemporary philosophical inquiry.
James Conant is currently a full-time member of the faculty of the Department of Philosophy in the Division of Humanities at the University of Chicago. He is Chester D. Tripp Professor of Humanities and is appointed and teaches both in the College and the Department of Philosophy at UChicago.
