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Dale Jacquette (April 19, 1953 – August 22, 2016) was an Americananalytic philosopher.[1] At the time of his death, he was Professor Ordinarius of Philosophy at theUniversity of Bern.[1] Jacquette had previously served on the faculty ofPenn State University.[1] He received his undergraduate degree in philosophy fromOberlin College in 1975, and his PhD in the same subject fromBrown University in 1983, writing a dissertation on the logic of intention supervised byRoderick Chisholm.[1] Jacquette had broad research interests in the philosophy of intentionality, logic, metaphysics, philosophy of mind,Wittgenstein, ethics, aesthetics, epistemology, and the history of philosophy.[2] A prolific writer, Jacquette published books on Meinong, logic, cannabis,psychologism, and the ethics of capital punishment in the final decade of his life.[3] He was a defender ofAristotelian realist philosophy of mathematics.[4]
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