Philosopher Allan Gibbard of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. (Hat tip: Jeff Helzner)
This makes him just one of 3 living philosophers in the academy and 1 of 9 to be so honored.
1. C.S. Pierce (1877)
2. John Dewey (1910) [Sophist]
3. Patrick Suppes (1965)
4. Ernest Nagel (1978)
5. Thomas Kuhn (19--)
6. Karl Popper (1986)
7. W.V. Quine (1994)
8. Brian Skyrms (1999)
9. Allan Gibbard (2009)
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