Robert John Fogelin is an American philosopher. He is a professor of Philosophy and Sherman Fairchild Professor in the Humanities (Emeritus) at Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...

 where he has taught since 1980. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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 in 2005.

Fogelin received his B.A. from the University of Rochester

University of Rochester

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 in 1955. In 1957 he received his M.A. from Yale University

Yale University

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 and in 1960 his Ph.D. also from Yale. He joined the faculty of Pomona College

Pomona College

Pomona College is a private, residential, liberal arts college in Claremont, California. Founded in 1887 in Pomona, California by a group of Congregationalists, the college moved to Claremont in 1889 to the site of a hotel, retaining its name. The school enrolls 1,548 students.The founding member...

in 1958. In 1966, he became an associate professor at Yale. Fogelin remained at Yale until 1980 when he became a professor at Dartmouth.

Selected publications

• Fogelin, Robert J. (2009) Taking Wittgenstein at His Word, Princeton, Princeton University Press
• Fogelin, Robert J. (1988) Figuratively Speaking New Haven: Yale University Press