Jay Rosenberg

Jay Frank Rosenberg (April 18, 1942, Chicago – February 21, 2008, Chapel Hill, North Carolina) was an American philosopher and historian of philosophy. He spent his teaching career at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he joined the Department of Philosophy in 1966 and was appointed Taylor Grandy Professor of Philosophy in 1987.^[1] Rosenberg was a student of Wilfrid Sellars and established his reputation with ten books and over 80 articles in metaphysics, epistemology, the philosophy of language, and the history of philosophy (especially Immanuel Kant). His most commercially successful work, The Practice of Philosophy: A Handbook for Beginners, is a standard text in introductory philosophy courses, and has been translated into German.^[2]

He received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. He was a Fulbright senior research fellow at the Universität Bielefeld, Germany and research fellow of the Zentrum fur interdisziplinare Forschung in Bielefeld.^[3] Two of his students published a festschrift in his memory: James R. O'Shea and Eric M. Rubenstein, eds., Self, Language, and World: Problems from Kant, Sellars, and Rosenberg. (Atascadero, CA: Ridgeview, 2010 ISBN 0924922400)