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Name
  
David-Hillel Ruben

Education
  
Harvard University

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Books
  
Action and its explanation, Explaining explanation, The Metaphysics of the Soc, Marxism and materialism

David-Hillel Ruben is a University of London professor emeritus of philosophy, now at Birkbeck College, University of London, and King's College, London. He gained his PhD in Philosophy at Harvard University (1971). He previously held posts at the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow, Essex University, The City University London, and the London School of Economics. He served as Founding Director of NYU's campus programme in London. His research relates to the philosophy of the social sciences and the philosophy of action. In 2011, Ruben resigned from the Universities and Colleges Union (UCU) in protest at their stance on anti-Semitism.

Selected publications

  • Marxism and Materialism, Harvester and Humanities, 1977, 2nd edition, 1979.
  • The Metaphysics of the Social World, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1985.
  • Explaining Explanation, Routledge, 1990. Second edition, Paradigm Publishers, 2012.
  • Editor, Explanation, Readings in Philosophy Series, Oxford University Press, 1993.
  • Action and Its Explanations, Oxford University Press, 2003.
  • ‘Traditions and True Successors’, Social Epistemology, January 2013, Vol. 27, No. 1, pp 32-46.

    ‘Trying in Some Way’, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, December 2013, Vol. 91, No. 4, pp 719-733.

    'A Conditional Theory of Trying', Philosophical Studies, forthcoming 2016.

    References

    David-Hillel Ruben Wikipedia