David Sosa is anAmerican philosopher who is currently Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at theUniversity of Texas, Austin. He is the editor-in-chief of the journalAnalytic Philosophy.
He received hisundergraduate degree fromBrown University and a doctorate in philosophy fromPrinceton University. HisPhD dissertation, completed in 1996 under the supervision ofMark Johnston, was titled "Representing Thoughts and Language". Before moving toTexas, Sosa was a post-doctoral fellow atU.C. Berkeley and an assistant professor of philosophy atDartmouth College. He is the son of the philosopherErnest Sosa.
Sosa appeared inRichard Linklater's filmWaking Life,[1] in which he performed a short monologue on the implications of discoveries inphysics on the problem offree will. He explained the view, often calledhard determinism, which holds that there is no place for free action in a world governed by physical laws since human beings, like everything else in the physical world, are physical things and are thus subject to these same laws.
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