Kenneth Winkler

American philosopher

Kenneth Winkler
Born	1950

Era	21st-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
Institutions	Yale University, Wellesley College, Boston University, Brown, MIT, Brandeis, Harvard
Main interests	George Berkeley

Kenneth Winkler (born 1950) is an American philosopher and the Kingman Brewster, Jr. Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Yale Universityand a specialist in the history of early modern philosophy.^[1]

Education and career

Winkler earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Texas, Austin. Before moving to Yale, he was the Class of 1919 Professor of Philosophy at Wellesley College.^[2]

Philosophical work

He is especially known for his works on George Berkeley's thought,^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6] but has also published on Locke, Reid, Hume and others.^[7]

Books

Berkeley: An Interpretation. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. ISBN 978-0198249078
The Cambridge Companion to Berkeley. Ed. Kenneth P. Winkler. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. ISBN 978-0521450331

References

^ https://philpeople.org/profiles/kenneth-winkler
^ "Kenneth Winkler". emeritus.yale.edu.
^ McKim, Robert (1993). "Review of Berkeley: An Interpretation". Noûs. 27 (4): 539–546. doi:10.2307/2215799. ISSN 0029-4624.
^ Frankel, Melissa (24 November 2013). "Review of Berkeley's Argument for Idealism". NDPR. ISSN 1538-1617.
^ Ainslie, Donald C. (27 February 2012). "Review of The Evident Connexion: Hume on Personal Identity". NDPR. ISSN 1538-1617.
^ White, Alan R. (October 1989). "Berkeley: An Interpretation". Philosophical Books. 30 (4): 213–215. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0149.1989.tb02186.x. ISSN 0031-8051.
^ https://philpeople.org/profiles/kenneth-winkler