Gilbert Harman (May 26, 1938[3] – November 13, 2021[4]) was an American philosopher, who taught at Princeton University from 1963[5] until his retirement in 2017.
Harman taught or co-taught courses in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Psychology, Philosophy, and Linguistics.
Harman had a BA from Swarthmore College and a Ph.D. from Harvard University, where he was supervised by Willard Van Orman Quine.
His daughter Elizabeth Harman is also a philosopher and a member of the philosophy department and the Center for Human Values at Princeton University.
Harman formulated the no false lemmas principle as a proposed method of solving Gettier problem's.
He and Sanjeev Kulkarni have suggested that elementary statistical learning theory offers a kind of response to the philosophical problem of induction.