Biography
I grew up in Brooklyn, New York; attended Erasmus Hall High School; received my B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Michigan, and my Ph. D. in Philosophy from Princeton. I taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago from 1969 to 1995, and at Northwestern from 1995 to my retirement in 2023. I am married to Susan Kraut, who teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. We have three children and five grandchildren. My philosophical interests include ancient Greek and Roman philosophy and contemporary moral and political philosophy. I am especially interested in the ways these two areas shed light on the other.
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