{{Short description|American philosopher (born 1933)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox philosopher |region = Western philosophy |era= 21st-century philosophy |name = Bruce Aune |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1933|11|7}} | institutions = University of Massachusetts Amherst, University of Pittsburgh, Oberlin College |main_interests = epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of language, history of ethics | education = UCLA, University of Minnesota }}
'''Bruce Aune''' (born November 7, 1933) is an American philosopher who is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is known for his works on epistemology, metaphysics and history of ethics.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bermúdez |first1=José Luis |title=Review of Donald Davidson on Truth, Meaning, and the Mental |journal=NDPR |date=10 March 2013 |url=https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/donald-davidson-on-truth-meaning-and-the-mental/ |language=en |issn=1538-1617}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Wick |first1=Warner |title=Kant's Theory of Morals . Bruce Aune |journal=Ethics |date=January 1982 |volume=92 |issue=2 |pages=341–343 |doi=10.1086/292331 |language=en |issn=0014-1704}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Buchanan |first1=Allen E. |title=Review of Kant's Theory of Morals |journal=The Philosophical Review |date=1982 |volume=91 |issue=3 |pages=437–444 |doi=10.2307/2184694 |jstor=2184694 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2184694 |issn=0031-8108|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ferejohn |first1=Michael |title=Review of Metaphysics: The Elements |journal=The Philosophical Review |date=1988 |volume=97 |issue=1 |pages=124–127 |doi=10.2307/2185108 |jstor=2185108 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2185108 |issn=0031-8108|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
==Books== * ''Knowledge, Mind, and Nature'' (1967) * ''Rationalism, Empiricism, and Pragmatism'' (1970) * ''Reason and Action'' (1977) * ''Kant's Theory of Morals'' (1980) * ''Metaphysics: The Elements'' (1985) * ''Knowledge of the External World'' (1991) * ''An Empiricist Theory of Knowledge'' (2009) * ''My Philosophic Life: A Memoir'' (2015)
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==External links== *{{cite web |title=Bruce Aune |url=https://www.umass.edu/philosophy/member/bruce-aune|website=University of Massachusetts Amherst|language=en}}
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