Abraham Anderson

Courses: First-Year Studies: Philosophy and Literature, Science, Politics, and Religion

A.B., Harvard College. Ph.D., 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-

Nancy Baker

Frieda Wildy Riggs Chair in Religious Studies

Courses: Language and Religious Experience, Mind and Language

B.A., Wellesley College. Ph.D., 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-

Roy Brand

Courses: First-Year Studies: Philosophy and Film, Contemporary Aesthetics, Philosophy in Dialogue: Benjamin and Adorno

B.A., Tel Aviv University, Israel. M.A., Ph.D., 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. Recent publications include “Identification with Victimhood in Recent Cinema” (Culture, Theory, and Critique), “The Philosophical Engagement with Terror: Habermas and Derrida” (Diánoia), “Making Sense Speaking Nonsense: Wittgenstein’s Tractatus, (The Philosophical Forum), “Schlegel’s Fragmentary Project” (Epoché), “Experiments in the Technique of Awakening: Benjamin’s Arcades Project” (Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal), and “Philosophical Therapy: Wittgenstein and Freud” (International Studies in Philosophy). Taught at Vassar College, National Autono-mous University of Mexico, and Hebrew University of Jerusalem. A contributing essayist to art journals and exhibition catalogues anda consultant curator. SLC, 2007-

Michael Davis

Courses: Rousseau, Ancient Philosophy (Plato)

B.A., Cornell University. M.A., Ph.D., 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-

Gwenda-lin Grewal

Courses: Ancient Philosophy (Plato)

B.A., Sarah Lawrence College. Doctoral candidate, Philosophy and Classics, Tulane University. Interests in Plato and classical Greek. SLC, 2009-

Marina Vitkin

Courses: Philosophy and Feminism, Kierkegaard, Marx, and Freud

Ph.D., University of Toronto. Special interests in Hegel and his predecessors (modern philosophy) and successors (nineteenth- and twentieth-century continental philosophy), post-Hegelian Russian philosophy, and philosophical problems of intellectual diversity and pluralistic understanding. SLC, 2004-