Philosophy Faculty

AB, Harvard College. PhD, Columbia University. Fellowships at École Normale Supérieure and the University of Munich. Interests in philosophy and history of science, history of modern philosophy, and the Enlightenment. Author of The Treatise of the Three Impostors and the Problem of Enlightenment, as well as of articles on Kant, Descartes, and other topics. Contributor to the new Kant-Lexikon. Has taught at the Collège International de Philosophie, St. John’s College, Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas, and elsewhere. SLC, 2007–

BA, Wellesley College. PhD, Brandeis University. Special interests in philosophy of mind, the later work of Wittgenstein, philosophy of religion, and feminist theory; author of articles on Wittgenstein and Vygotsky. SLC, 1974–

BA, Tel Aviv University, Israel. MA, PhD, New School for Social Research. Special interests in continental philosophy, modern and contemporary aesthetics, philosophy of film and new media, and trauma and popular culture. Author of articles for Culture, Theory and Critique, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Diánoia, The Philosophical Forum, Epoché, Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, and International Studies in Philosophy; chapter contributor to Media Witnessing and Metaphysics in the Post-Metaphysical Age; editor and translator of Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Habermas and Derrida; editor and consultant curator of Bare Life: Contemporary Art Reflecting on the State of Emergency; and co-curator of Melancholy—an international group show. Recipient of awards and fellowships, including Lady Davies Fellowship, The American Philosophical Association Prize, and The Marshall McLuhan Prize. Taught at Vassar College, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Bezalel Academy of Art, and Hebrew University of Jerusalem. SLC, 2007–

BA, Cornell University. MA, PhD, Pennsylvania State University. Interests in Greek philosophy, moral and political philosophy, and philosophy and literature; author of many books, the most recent of which are The Autobiography of Philosophy, a translation of Aristotle’s On Poetics, and Wonderlust: Ruminations on Liberal Education; member, editorial board, Ancient Philosophy; lecturer, essayist, and reviewer. SLC, 1977–

PhD, University of Toronto. Special interests in Hegel and his predecessors (modern philosophy) and successors (19th- and 20th-century continental philosophy), post-Hegelian Russian philosophy, and philosophical problems of intellectual diversity and pluralistic understanding. SLC, 2004–