Kenneth Winkler (born 1950) is an American philosopher and the Kingman Brewster, Jr. Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at

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and a specialist in the history of early modern philosophy.

Education and career

Winkler earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from the

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. Before moving to Yale, he was the Class of 1919 Professor of Philosophy at

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Philosophical work

He is especially known for his works on

George Berkeley George Berkeley ( ; 12 March 168514 January 1753), known as Bishop Berkeley (Bishop of Cloyne of the Anglican Church of Ireland), was an Anglo-Irish philosopher, writer, and clergyman who is regarded as the founder of "immaterialism", a philos ...

's thought, but has also published on Locke, Reid, Hume and others.https://philpeople.org/profiles/kenneth-winkler

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

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* 1950 births Living people 21st-century American philosophers American philosophy academics Yale University faculty Wellesley College faculty George Berkeley scholars {{US-philosopher-stub