Michael Devitt

Michael Devitt
Devitt in Warsaw, 2008
Born	1938
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Analytic philosophy Scientific realism
Main interests	Philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, metaphysics, epistemology
Notable ideas	Criticism of the transcendental argument against eliminativism

Michael Devitt (born 1938) is an Australian philosopher currently teaching at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in New York City. His primary interests include philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, metaphysics and epistemology. His current work involves the philosophy of linguistics, foundational issues in semantics, the semantics of definite descriptions and demonstratives, semantic externalism, and scientific realism.