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Education

• PhD, City University of New York, 1976

Research

The nature of philosophy, and early modern philosophy.

Selected Publications

• Michel de Montaigne: Accidental Philosopher (Cambridge, 2003)
• The Modern Self in Rousseau's Confessions (Notre Dame, 1983)
• A Reply to St. Augustine, Death and the Disinterested Spectator
• An Inquiry into the Nature of Philosophy (SUNY, 1986)
• Self Knowledge in the Age of Theory (Rowman and Littlefield, 1996)
• Montaigne and Skepticism, in The Cambridge Companion to Montaigne

Current Work

• Currently working on a book on Montaigne tentatively titled "Montaigne and Modern Rationalism"

Fellowships and Honors

• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow (1982-83)
• Senior Fellow, Center for Humanistic Inquiry (2003-04)

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