Ed Minar

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Ed Minar is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.

Minar's main research areas are in the history of analytic philosophy (especially Wittgenstein), epistemology, and continental philosophy. He has written on the later Wittgenstein and on Heidegger. One of his current projects is to complete a book on Wittgensteinian responses to various forms of skepticism.

His published articles include:

  • "Heidegger, Wittgenstein and Skepticism". (2001). Harvard Review of Philosophy.,
  • "Heidegger's Response to Skepticism in Being and Time". (2001). In J. Floyd and S. Shieh, eds.,
  • Future Pasts: Reflections on the History and Nature of Analytic Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press.,
  • "The Thinging of the Thing: A Late Heideggerian Response to Skepticism?". (1999). Philosophical Topics 27, 2.

Minar regularly teaches courses on the history of analytic philosophy (Frege - Quine), Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations, and he periodically offers a course focusing on non-human animal minds.