Gary Michael Gutting (April 11, 1942 – January 18, 2019) was an American philosopher and holder of an endowed chair in

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at the

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. His daughter is writer Tasha Alexander.

Work

Gutting was an expert on the philosopher

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and an editor of ''Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews''. Through his publications in such media outlets as ''

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'' and The Stone, he adopted the role of a

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. He dealt with both continental and

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and had written on bridging the analytic-continental divide.

Books

* ''Talking God: Philosophers on Belief'', W. W. Norton & Company, 2016 * ''What Philosophy Can Do'', W. W. Norton & Company, 2015 * ''Thinking the Impossible: French Philosophy since 1960'', Oxford University Press, 2011 * ''What Philosophers Know: Case Studies in Recent Analytic Philosophy'', Cambridge University Press, 2009 *
Foucault: A Very Short Introduction
', Oxford University Press, 2005 * ''French Philosophy in the Twentieth Century'', Cambridge University Press, 2001 * ''Pragmatic Liberalism and the Critique of Modernity'', Cambridge University Press, 1999 * ''Michel Foucault's Archaeology of Scientific Reason'', Cambridge University Press, 1989 * ''Religious Belief and Religious Skepticism'', University of Notre Dame Press, 1982 * ''Paradigms and Revolutions: Appraisals and Applications of Thomas Kuhn's Philosophy of Science''. South Bend, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1980 OCLC 163461098 * ''Continental Philosophy of Science'', Blackwell Publishers, 2004

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External links

Gutting at University of Notre Dame
{{DEFAULTSORT:Gutting, Gary 21st-century American philosophers Continental philosophers American Roman Catholics Analytic philosophers Philosophy academics Foucault scholars Philosophers of science Philosophers of religion University of Notre Dame faculty Saint Louis University alumni 1942 births 2019 deaths