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Richard McKay Rorty (October 4, 1931 – June 8, 2007) was an American philosopher.Educated at the University of Chicago and Yale University, Rorty's academic career included appointments as the Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University, the Kenan Professor of Humanities at the University of Virginia, and as a professor of comparative literature at Stanford University.
Wood received his doctorate from Cornell University in 1926 and was appointed assistant professor of philosophy at Princeton University in 1927. He remained a member of the Princeton Philosophy Department for 43 years, serving as departmental chair from 1952 to 1960.
Cynthia A. Freeland (born 1951) is an American philosopher of art.She has published three monographs, over two dozen articles, and edited several books. She is emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Houston.
Panofsky was born in Hannover to a wealthy Jewish Silesian mining family. He grew up in Berlin, receiving his Abitur in 1910 at the Joachimsthalsches Gymnasium. In 1910–14 he studied law, philosophy, philology, and art history in Freiburg, Munich, and Berlin, where he heard lectures by the art historian Margarete Bieber, who was filling in for Georg Loeschcke.
In his essay, "Art and Objecthood," published in 1967, Fried argued that Minimalism's focus on the viewer's experience, rather than the relational properties of the work of art exemplified by modernism, made the work of art indistinguishable from one's general experience of the world. Minimalism (or "literalism" as Fried called it) offered an ...
Egbert first began teaching as an instructor of art history and archaeology at Princeton in 1929, and a year later, as a lecturer in ancient architecture at Bryn Mawr College. At this time, Egbert was a scholar of medieval art, but maintained a strong interest in American architecture. In 1935, Egbert was hired as Assistant Professor at Princeton.
John Madison Cooper (November 29, 1939 – August 8, 2022) [1] was an American philosopher who was the Emeritus Henry Putnam University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University and an expert on ancient philosophy.
Arthur Coleman Danto (January 1, 1924 – October 25, 2013) was an American art critic, philosopher, and professor at Columbia University.He was best known for having been a long-time art critic for The Nation and for his work in philosophical aesthetics and philosophy of history, though he contributed significantly to a number of fields, including the philosophy of action.