Editing Ned Block (section)

==Education and career==
Block obtained his [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]] from [[Harvard University]] in 1971 under the direction of [[Hilary Putnam]]. He joined the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] (MIT) as an assistant professor of philosophy (1971–1977), and then served as associate professor of philosophy (1977–1983), professor of philosophy (1983–1996) and as chair of the philosophy section (1989–1995). He has, since 1996, been a professor in the departments of [[philosophy]] and [[psychology]] at [[New York University]] (NYU).

Block received the [[Jean Nicod Prize]] in 2013, and has given the [[William James Lectures]] at [[Harvard University]] in 2012 and the [[John Locke Lectures]] at [[Oxford University]] in 2013,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/john-locke-lectures#collapse1-3|title=The John Locke Lectures - Faculty of Philosophy|website=www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk}}</ref> among many others.

Block is Past President of the [[Society for Philosophy and Psychology]] and was elected a Fellow of the [[American Academy of Arts & Sciences]] in 2004.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amacad.org/content/news/pressReleases.aspx?pr=59|title=Press Releases - American Academy of Arts & Sciences|website=www.amacad.org}}</ref>

He is married to the developmental psychologist [[Susan Carey]]. Block is ethnically Jewish.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jinfo.org/Philosophers.html |title = Jewish Philosophers}}</ref>