Elijah Millgram is a contemporary analytic philosopher at the University of Utah whose work spans practical reason, epistemology, and ethics. He is known for challenging standard accounts of instrumental rationality and for sustained inquiry into the structure of practical inference and the conditions under which testimony can transmit justification.
Developed an account of practical induction as the basis of instrumental rationality in Practical Induction (1997)
Argued for the role of experience in shaping ends, contra Humean instrumentalism
Contributed to epistemology of testimony, including analysis of justification transmission through testimony chains
Authored The Great Endarkenment (2015), critiquing hyper-specialization in intellectual culture
Edited Varieties of Practical Reasoning (2001), a key anthology in the field
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