{{Short description|American philosopher|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{BLP one source|date=March 2021}} '''Taylor Carman''' (born 1965) is an American [[Philosophy|philosopher]]. He is a professor of philosophy at [[Barnard College]], [[Columbia University]].
==Education and career==
Carman earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from [[Stanford University]], where he worked with [[Dagfinn Føllesdal]], but was also influenced by [[Hubert Dreyfus]].
==Philosophical work== Carman's main areas of interest are in the philosophy of [[Martin Heidegger]] and in [[Phenomenology (philosophy)|phenomenology]]. He is the author of ''Heidegger’s Analytic: Interpretation, Discourse, and Authenticity in Heidegger's'' Being and Time (2003) and ''Merleau-Ponty'' (2008), and the editor of ''The 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.<ref>Hubert Dreyfus (2005). "Foreword," in Carol J. White, ''Time and Death: Heidegger's Analysis of Finitude'', Ashgate, p. xviiii.</ref> Carman was featured, along with Dreyfus, [[Charles Taylor (philosopher)|Charles Taylor]], [[Albert Borgmann]], [[Mark Wrathall]] and [[Sean Kelly (philosopher)|Sean Kelly]], in the documentary ''[[Being in the World]]'' (2010), which explores the phenomenology of everyday life.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.beingintheworldmovie.com/ |title=Being In The World |website=www.beingintheworldmovie.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100404104552/http://beingintheworldmovie.com/ |archive-date=2010-04-04}}</ref>
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