Stanley Cavell

Stanley Cavell
Stanley Cavell in Paris, 2015
Born	Stanley Louis Goldstein (legally changed name to Stanley Louis Cavell in 1942) (1926-09-01)September 1, 1926 Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
Died	June 19, 2018(2018-06-19) (aged 91) Boston, Massachussets, U.S.
Education	University of California, Berkeley (B.A.) UCLA (no degree) Harvard University (Ph.D.)
School	Postanalytic philosophy
Main interests	Skepticism, tragedy, aesthetics, ethics, ordinary language philosophy, American transcendentalism, film theory, William Shakespeare, opera, religion
Notable ideas	Philosophy of language film analysis
Influences Kierkegaard, Emerson, Thoreau, Wittgenstein, Austin, Heidegger, Nietzsche, Shakespeare, Roger Sessions
Influenced Michael Fried, Paul Guyer, Sandra Laugier, Stephen Mulhall, Hilary Putnam, Bernard Williams, Robert Gardner, David Macarthur

Stanley Louis Cavell (/kəˈvɛl/; September 1, 1926 – June 19, 2018) was an American philosopher. He was the Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value, Emeritus, at Harvard University. He worked in the fields of ethics, aesthetics, and ordinary language philosophy.

His influential works were on Wittgenstein, Austin, Emerson, Thoreau, and Heidegger. His work is seen and known by its conversational tone and many literary references.

Cavell died in Boston, Massachusetts of heart failure on June 19, 2018 at the age of 91.

Other websites

• Harvard Philosophy Department website
• Conversations: The Journal of Cavellian Studies
• A Philosopher Goes to the Movies: Conversation with Stanley Cavell Archived 2017-01-20 at the Wayback Machine
• Daniel Ross, Review of Cavell, Philosophy the Day after Tomorrow
• A study (in French) on Cavell's idea of perfectionism Archived 2011-07-28 at the Wayback Machine
• Stanley Cavell Archived 2013-07-20 at the Wayback Machine