| Arnold Zuboff | |
| Birth Name: | Arnold Stuart Zuboff |
| Era: | Contemporary philosophy |
| Institutions: | University College London |
| Thesis Title: | Time, Self and Sleeping Beauty |
| Thesis Url: | https://www.proquest.com/openview/0ee9821204964f81b56fd7ff531af466/1.pdf |
| Thesis Year: | 2009 |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Thomas Nagel |
| Main Interests: | Personal identity, philosophy of mind, ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of probability |
| Notable Ideas: | Sleeping Beauty problem Universalism |
Arnold Stuart Zuboff (born January 1946) is an American philosopher who is the original formulator of the Sleeping Beauty problem.[1] He has worked on topics such as personal identity, the philosophy of mind, ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, and the philosophy of probability.[2] and a view analogous to open individualism—the position that there is one subject of experience, who is everyone—which he calls "universalism".[3] [4]
Arnold Stuart Zuboff was born in January 1946.[5] He was raised in West Hartford, Connecticut.[6]
Zuboff received a BA in philosophy from the University of Connecticut in 1968,[7] and attended Princeton University Graduate School until 1972.[8] In 2009, he successfully defended his thesis titled Time, Self, and Sleeping Beauty, under the supervision of his doctoral advisor, Thomas Nagel. His examiners were Gilbert Harman, Adam Elga, John P. Burgess, Alexander Nehamas, and Nagel.[9]
Zuboff lectured at the University College London's Department of Philosophy from 1974 till his retirement in 2011.[10] He is now an Honorary Senior Research Associate.[11]
Zuboff created a series of paintings and poems inspired by his dreams between the ages of 18 and 21, which he has made available online.
Zuboff was a close friend and engaged in philosophical discussions with the Canadian philosopher G. A. Cohen.[12]