Charles Landesman

Charles Landesman (born 17 December 1932) is an American philosopher. He is professor emeritus of philosophy at Hunter College.

Landesman was born in Brooklyn, New York. He obtained a BA from Wesleyan University in 1954 and a PhD from Yale University in 1959. He was assistant professor at Kansas University (1959–1965) and a professor in the Department of Philosophy at Hunter College from 1970. He has defended philosophical dualism.

Selected publications

 * Readings in the Theory of Action (Indiana University Press, 1968)
 * The Foundations of Knowledge (Prentice-Hall, 1970)
 * The Problem of Universals (Basic Books, 1971)
 * Discourse and its Presuppositions (Yale University Press, 1972)
 * Philosophy: An Introduction to the Central Issue (Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1985)
 * Color and Consciousness: An Essay in Metaphysics (Temple University Press, 1989)
 * The Eye and the Mind: Reflections on Perception and the Problem of Knowledge (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993)
 * Introduction to Epistemology (Blackwell, 1996)
 * Skepticism: The Central Issues (Wiley, 2002)
 * Leibniz's Mill: A Challenge to Materialism (2011)