Irving Singer

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Irving Singer
Born (1925-12-24)December 24, 1925
Brooklyn, New York, USA
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Nationality United States
Notable work (see published works below)
Awards (see awards below)
Website www.mit.edu/~philos/singer.html
Era Contemporary philosophy
Region Western philosophy
School Humanist[citation needed]
Institutions Harvard, MIT
Main interests
Aesthetics, philosophy of love, philosophy of film[citation needed]

Irving Singer (December 24, 1925 – February 1, 2015) was an American professor of philosophy who was on the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for 55 years and wrote over 20 books.[1] He was the author of books on various topics, including cinema, love, sexuality, and the philosophy of George Santayana. He also wrote on the subject of film, including writings about the work of film directors Ingmar Bergman, Alfred Hitchcock.

Biography

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Singer skipped three grades in school, graduating from Manhattan's Townsend Harris High School at age 15.[2][3]

He entered the U.S. Army, serving in World War II, writing History of the 210th Field Artillery Group, which was published by the Army in 1945.[2][3]

After studying for a short time at Brooklyn College before the war and attending Biarritz American University in Paris just after the war, Singer went to Harvard University on the G.I. Bill,[2][3] was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and graduated summa cum laude with an A.B. in 1948.[3] He did his graduate studies at Oxford University and Harvard, receiving his PhD in philosophy from Harvard in 1952.[3]

Singer taught briefly at Harvard, Cornell University, the University of Michigan, and Johns Hopkins University. He joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1958, first as a lecturer, but then promoted to associate professor in 1959, and full professor at 1967.[1] He died in 2015.[2]

Awards

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  • Four prize essays and other student awards,[specify] Harvard University[4]
  • ACLS Research Scholar, 1949–1950[4]
  • Post-doctoral Fulbright Research Scholar, 1955–1956[4]
  • Bollingen Grant-in-aid, 1958, 1959, 1965[4]
  • The Hudson Review Fellow in Criticism, 1958–1959[4]
  • Guggenheim Fellowship, 1965–1966[4]
  • ACLS Grant-in-aid, 1966[4]
  • Fellow of the Villa I Tatti, Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Florence, Italy, 1965–1967[4]
  • Bollingen Fellowship, 1966–1967[4]
  • Rockefeller Foundation Grant, 1970[4]
  • Balliol College/MIT Exchange, Oxford University, 1999[4]
  • Fellow, European Humanities Research Centre, Oxford University, 1999–2004[4]

Published works

By Singer

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About Singer

  • The Nature and Pursuit of Love: The Philosophy of Irving Singer (Prometheus Books, 1995) — based on academic papers presented at a three-day conference about Singer at Brock University in 1991 ISBN 978-0879759124 [1]

References

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External links

Reviews
Video

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