David Manley is an American philosopher specializing in metaphysics,

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, and ethics. He formerly published widely in natural language semantics, ontology, and epistemology. He is Associate Professor of

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the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

, Michigan.

Work

* * Professor Manley's papers in the philosophy of language, metaphysics, and epistemology have appeared in such journals as ''Nous, The Journal of Philosophy, Mind'', and ''PPR''.

External links

David Manley's academic CVDavid Manley's department web site
21st-century American philosophers Epistemologists Living people Metaphysicians Philosophers of language University of Michigan faculty Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-philosopher-stub