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Taylor Carman (born 1965) is an Americanphilosopher. He is a professor of philosophy atBarnard College,Columbia University.
Carman earned his Ph.D. in philosophy fromStanford University, where he worked withDagfinn Føllesdal, but was also influenced byHubert Dreyfus.
Carman's main areas of interest are in the philosophy ofMartin Heidegger and inphenomenology. He is the author ofHeidegger’s Analytic: Interpretation, Discourse, and Authenticity in Heidegger's Being and Time (2003) andMerleau-Ponty (2008), and the editor ofThe Cambridge Companion to Merleau-Ponty (2005). He is also co-editor of a philosophy series with Ashgate Publishing called "Intersection: Continental and Analytic Philosophy".
Hubert Dreyfus considered Carman to be one of the leading contemporary authorities on Heidegger and on Heidegger's concept of death in particular.[1] Carman was featured, along with Dreyfus,Charles Taylor,Albert Borgmann,Mark Wrathall andSean Kelly, in the documentaryBeing in the World (2010), which explores the phenomenology of everyday life.[2]
