# Bruce Aune

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{{Short description|American philosopher (born 1933)}}
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{{Infobox philosopher
|region = [Western philosophy](/source/Western_philosophy)
|era= [21st-century philosophy](/source/Contemporary_philosophy)
|name  =  Bruce Aune
|birth_date =   {{birth date and age|1933|11|7}}
| institutions  = [University of Massachusetts Amherst](/source/University_of_Massachusetts_Amherst), [University of Pittsburgh](/source/University_of_Pittsburgh), [Oberlin College](/source/Oberlin_College)
|main_interests   = [epistemology](/source/epistemology), [metaphysics](/source/metaphysics), [philosophy of language](/source/philosophy_of_language), [history of ethics](/source/history_of_ethics)
| education = [UCLA](/source/UCLA), [University of Minnesota](/source/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](/source/University_of_Massachusetts_Amherst). He is known for his works on [epistemology](/source/epistemology), [metaphysics](/source/metaphysics) and [history of ethics](/source/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)

==References==
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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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