b. 1973
Jesse Prinz is an American philosopher specializing in philosophy of mind, moral psychology, and aesthetics. He is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center, known for defending empiricist and sentimentalist positions against nativist and rationalist views.
Developed a sentimentalist theory of moral judgment in 'The Emotional Construction of Morals'
Defended concept empiricism in 'Furnishing the Mind'
Advanced the AIR (Attended Intermediate-level Representation) theory of consciousness
Critiqued moral nativism and argued for cultural variation in moral norms
Contributed to debates on platonism, aesthetics, and the philosophy of emotion