Héctor-Neri Castañeda

Hector-Neri Castañeda
Born(1924-12-13)December 13, 1924
San Vicente, Zacapa, Guatemala
DiedSeptember 7, 1991(1991-09-07) (aged 66)
Education
EducationUniversity of Minnesota (Ph.D., 1954)
ThesisThe Logical Structure of Moral Reasoning (1954)
Doctoral advisorWilfrid Sellars
Philosophical work
Era20th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolAnalytic philosophy
Doctoral studentsWilliam J. Rapaport
Main interestsPhilosophy of language, metaphysics, ethics, deontic logic, moral reasoning
Notable ideasGuise theory, dual predication, quasi-indexical

Héctor-Neri Castañeda (Spanish: [kastaˈɲeða]; December 13, 1924 – September 7, 1991) was a Guatemalan-American philosopher and founder of the journal Noûs.