Irving Thalberg Jr.

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Irving Thalberg Jr. (August 25, 1930 - 1987), was a 20th century philosopher and the son of 1930s Hollywood producer Irving Thalberg and Academy award-winning actress Norma Shearer.

The Thalberg family lived at 706 Ocean Front Drive in Los Angeles. Irving Jr. was only six years old when his father died from pneumonia at the age of thirty-seven.

Irving Thalberg Jr. was educated at Institut Le Rosey in Switzerland and attended Stanford University. He was a teacher of philosophy at the University of Illinois at Chicago until he died of cancer in 1988.

He published two books of philosophical studies through the Muirhead Library of Philosophy: "Enigmas of Agency," Allen & Unwin, London, 1972, and "Perception, Emotion & Action," Blackwells, Oxford, 1977.