John Taber

is Regents Professor of Philosophy emeritus in the Department of Philosophy, University of New Mexico

John Taber, born 1948 in Altadena, Calif., U.S.A., studied philosophy at the University of Kansas and philosophy and Indology at the University of Hamburg. He was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, then Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Case Western Reserve University from 1979 to 1987. He joined the Department of Philosophy at the University of New Mexico in 1987, where he attained the rank of Full Professor in 2005, served as Chair from 2005 to 2009, and was appointed Regents' Professor in 2015. He has also taught three times as a Visiting Professor at the University of Vienna and the University of Heidelberg. His research and publications concern a range of topics in Indian philosophy, including Advaita Vedānta, Mīmāṃsā, Indian logic, and Buddhist epistemology.