Jay Frank Rosenberg (April 18, 1942, – February 21, 2008, ) was an and historian of philosophy. He spent his teaching career at the, where he joined the Department of Philosophy in 1966 and was appointed Taylor Grandy Professor of Philosophy in 1987. Rosenberg was a student of and established his reputation with ten books and over 80 articles in metaphysics, epistemology, the philosophy of language, and the history of philosophy (especially ). His most commercially successful work, The Practice of Philosophy: A Handbook for Beginners, is a standard text in introductory philosophy courses, and has been translated into German.He received a, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. He was a Fulbright senior research fellow at the, Germany and research fellow of the Zentrum fur interdisziplinare Forschung in Bielefeld.
Two of his students published a festschrift in his memory: James R. O'Shea and Eric M. Rubenstein, eds., Self, Language, and World: Problems from Kant, Sellars, and Rosenberg.
(Atascadero, CA: Ridgeview, 2010 ). Contents.Biography Rosenberg graduated from in 1959, and from in 1963, before earning his Ph.D from in 1966.Rosenberg from his undergraduate days had an interest in cookery, folk-dancing, and popular culture. His first publication, The Impoverished Students' Book of Cookery, Drinkery, and Housekeepery!, written while an undergraduate at Reed, has since been republished and is available from the Reed College bookstore. Proceeds go to a scholarship fund. In 1966, Rosenberg appeared as himself on the May 9, 1966 episode of where he was introduced, along with two imposters as the author The Impoverished Students' Book of Cookery, Drinkery, and Housekeepery!
Was the only panelist to correctly identify Rosenberg. At the urging of his wife, he successfully auditioned for the television game show in 1986 and won almost $50,000.
He returned for the program's. Books. Readings in the Philosophy of Language, co-edited with Charles Travis; Prentice-Hall, Inc.; Englewood Cliffs, NJ; 1971. Linguistic Representation, D.
Reidel Publishing Co.; Dordrecht, Holland; 1974. Pallas Paperback edition, 1978; Second edition, 1981. The Practice of Philosophy, Prentice-Hall, Inc.; Englewood Cliffs, NJ; 1978. Second edition, revised and enlarged, 1984. Third edition, newly revised and enlarged, Prentice-Hall, Inc.; Upper Saddle River, NJ; 1996. One World and Our Knowledge of It, D.