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Aryeh Kosman (Dept. Chair)
John Whitehead Professor of Philosophy

Ancient and early modern philosophy, philosophy and literature, philosophy of religion

Aryeh Kosman was an undergraduate at the University of California at Berkeley, from which he also received an M.A. He briefly studied at Hebrew University and received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. He joined the Haverford faculty in 1962, and was named John Whitehead Professor of Philosophy in 1984. His teaching and his research interests are primarily in the interpretation of ancient philosophy; he has written extensively particularly on Plato and Aristotle. He also teaches courses on early modern philosophy, on which he has written occasionally, and on various issues in contemporary ethics and aesthetics.

Fall 2005 Courses
PHIL 107 - Happiness, Virtue, and the Good Life (course info / syllabus)
PHIL 212 - Aristotle (course info / syllabus)

Spring 2006 Courses
PHIL 220 - Medieval Philosophy (course info / syllabus)
PHIL 310 - Topics in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy: Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics (course info / syllabus)