James H. Fetzer Biography | James H. Fetzer | Who is James H. Fetzer?
James Henry Fetzer (born December 6, 1940) is an emeritus professor of the philosophy of science at the University of Minnesota Duluth and a conspiracy theorist.
In the late 1970s, Fetzer worked on assessing and clarifying the forms and foundations of scientific explanation, probability in science, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of cognitive science, especially artificial intelligence and computer science.
In the early 1990s, Fetzer began to promote John F. Kennedy’s assassination conspiracy theories, later 9/11 conspiracy theories, Holocaust denial, conspiracy theories regarding the 2002 death of Senator Paul Wellstone and Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting conspiracy theories since the multiple fatalities in 2012.
He co-founded Scholars for 9/11 Truth in 2005 and claims that the United States government, Israeli government, and Israeli Mossad are involved in these and other conspiracies. Fetzer’s allegations and speculations have drawn strong criticism.
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James Henry Fetzer is an emeritus professor of the philosophy of science at the University of Minnesota Duluth and a conspiracy theorist. He was born on December 6, 1940, in Pasadena, California. James H. Fetzer is 78 years old as of 2019
Early life
Fetzer was born in Pasadena, California, on December 6, 1940, to a father who worked as an accountant in a welfare office in Los Angeles County and grew up in a neighboring city, Altadena.
After his parents’ divorce, Fetzer moved to La Habra Heights, California, with his brother, mother, and stepfather. His mother died when he was 11, and he went to live with his father and stepmother.
Following his graduation from South Pasadena High School, Fetzer studied philosophy at Princeton University and graduated magna cum laude in 1962 where his undergraduate thesis, done under Carl G Hempel, won The Dickinson Prize.
He then joined the United States Marine Corps and was the second lieutenant in an artillery unit. In the early 1960s, he was stationed in Okinawa, Japan. During military service in the 1960s, Fetzer married, and divorced four years later, after having a son. He remarried in the 1970s while teaching at the University of Kentucky.
In 1966, soon after promotion to captain, he resigned to enter graduate school. Having attained a master’s degree from Indiana University, he studied at Columbia University for a year, then returned to Indiana University and in 1970 gained a Ph.D. in the history of science and philosophy of science.
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James Henry Fetzer is an emeritus professor of the philosophy of science at the University of Minnesota Duluth and a conspiracy theorist. His pieces of information about height and weight are not yet revealed as of 2019 but stay ready for the update soon
Career
He became an assistant professor at the University of Kentucky in 1970 and received the University of Kentucky Student Government’s first Distinguished Teaching Award in 1973. He was denied tenure at Kentucky in 1977 and spent the next ten years in visiting positions at the University of Virginia, University of Cincinnati, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the University of South Florida.
After ten years without a tenure-track position, in 1987 he was hired as a tenured full professor at the University of Minnesota Duluth. In 1996 Fetzer received a Distinguished McKnight University Professorship from the University of Minnesota, a title that recipients retain until they retire from the University. He retired in 2006 and is now an emeritus professor.
In the late 1970s, Fetzer received a National Science Foundation fellowship and contributed a chapter to a book on Hans Reichenbach. In 1990, Fetzer received the Medal of the University of Helsinki. He assisted theorists in computer science and joined debate over proper types of inference in computing.
In the late 1990s, Fetzer was called to organize a symposium on philosophy of mind and authored textbooks on cognitive science and artificial intelligence. He is an expert on philosopher Carl G. Hempel.
Fetzer published over 100 articles and 20 books on the philosophy of science and philosophy of cognitive science, especially of artificial intelligence and computer science. In 2002, Fetzer wrote Consciousness Evolving, a collection of studies on the past, the present, and the future of consciousness.
The book is divided into three sections: how and why consciousness evolved, special consciousness capacities such as language, creativity, and mentality, and the prospects for artificial consciousness. He founded the international journal Minds and Machines, which he edited for 11 years, and founded the academic library Studies in Cognitive Systems, of which he was the series editor.
He founded the Society for Machines & Mentality. Near and after retirement, Fetzer remained a contributor to as well as cited or republished in the philosophy of science and cognitive science volumes and encyclopedias.
James H. Fetzer Net Worth
James Henry Fetzer is an emeritus professor of the philosophy of science at the University of Minnesota Duluth and a conspiracy theorist. James H. Fetzer is estimating a net worth of $1 Million – $5 Million (Approx.) as of 2019 but his salary is not yet revealed also stay ready for the update soon
James H. Fetzer Books
James H. Fetzer Books The evolution of intelligence 2001, Scientific Knowledge: Causation, Explanation, and Corroboration 1981, Artificial Intelligence: Its Scope and Limits 1990, Consciousness Evolving 2002, Render Unto Darwin: Philosophical Aspects of the Christian Right’s Crusade Against Science 2007,
American Assassination: The Strange Death of Senator Paul Wellstone 2004, Philosophy and Cognitive Science 1991, Glossary of epistemology/philosophy of science 1993, Computers and cognition 2001,
The Place of Probability in Science: In Honor of Ellery Eells (1953-2006) 2011, Glossary of Cognitive Science 1993, The Dynamic Duo: White Rose Blooms in Wisconsin 2013, and Nobody Died at Sandy Hook: It Wasn’t a School Massacre – It Was a Fema Drill 2015
Promotion of conspiracy theories
Claiming an interest in alleged government conspiracies that dates to the 1963 assassination of US President John F. Kennedy, Fetzer is convinced it was “a government hit job” and “the Zapruder film is a fake”. With Don “Four Arrows” Jacobs, Fetzer claimed that the 2002 airplane crash that killed US Senator Paul Wellstone was an assassination “by an out-of-control Republican cabal under the direction of” Karl Rove.
Fetzer alleged that the 9/11 attacks were treason, and called for the military overthrow of President George W. Bush. He has asserted that the World Trade Center buildings collapsed by controlled demolitions or by high-tech weaponry, although his speculations have drawn further critical attention.
In 2005, with Steven E. Jones, Fetzer co-founded Scholars for 9/11 Truth. Jovian Byford criticized Fetzer’s speculations that Jews or Israel were involved in a conspiracy to commit the 9/11 attacks as “a contemporary variant of the old, antisemitic conspiracist canard about the disloyalty of Jews and their usurpation of power in the name of communal interests and the accumulation of wealth.”
An article by Fetzer published by Iranian state-run Press TV and conspiracy theory and fake news website Veterans Today titled (by the latter) “Did Mossad death squads slaughter American children at Sandy Hook?” was described in January 2013 by Oliver Kamm in The Jewish Chronicle as “monstrous, calumnious, demented bilge” that “violates all bounds of decency”.
Fetzer was a member of the Advisory Board of Veterans Today in 2013. In 2015, Fetzer published a book titled Nobody Died at Sandy Hook: It Was a FEMA Drill to Promote Gun Control. Lenny Pozner, a father of Sandy Hook victim Noah Pozner, sued Fetzer and his co-author, Mike Palacek, for defamation in a Dane County, Wisconsin court.
In June 2019, circuit judge Frank Remington found that Fetzer and Palacek had defamed the Pozners, with damages to be awarded at an October 2019 trial. On October 16, 2019, a jury in Wisconson awarded Leonard Pozner $450,000 for defamation.
Leonard Pozner’s son Noah, 6, was the youngest person killed during the mass shooting that left 26 people dead, including 20 children around Noah’s age. The book’s publisher, Moon Rock Books, personally apologized to the Pozners and agreed to take the book out of circulation.
Fetzer has written on the Holocaust: “My research on the Holocaust narrative suggests that it is not only untrue but probably false and not remotely scientifically sustainable.” Fetzer wrote the Foreword for a book entitled Breaking The Spell (2014) by Nicholas Kollerstrom, a work of Holocaust denial.
In 2013, officials of the University of Minnesota said that “Fetzer has the right to express his views, but he also has the responsibility to make clear he’s not speaking for the university.” He is retired and no longer employed by the university.
Shortly after the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting, Fetzer began a series of conspiracy theory discussions promoting the idea no children were killed at Sandy Hook, among various other false accusations. Fetzer defamed several parents of dead children, alleging the entire event was staged by federal agents acting to enact gun restrictions.
On October 16, 2019, a jury in Wisconsin awarded $450,000 to the father of a boy killed in the shooting, based on defamation by Fetzer of Leonard Pozner. Posner’s 6-year old son, Noah was one of 26 victims killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT on December 14, 2012. Fetzer said he would appeal.
James H. Fetzer Wife, Family, Children | Who is James H. Fetzer Married to?
James H. Fetzer is an emeritus professor of the philosophy of science at the University of Minnesota Duluth and a conspiracy theorist, He is a married man. During military service in the 1960s, Fetzer married, and divorced four years later, after having a son.
He remarried in the 1970s while teaching at the University of Kentucky. Fetzer pieces of information about his wife, son, Children the family is very private but stay ready for the update soon