1. Allan Stanley Gotthelf was an American philosopher.
16 Facts About Allan Gotthelf
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Allan Gotthelf was a scholar of the philosophies of both Aristotle and Ayn Rand.
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Allan Stanley Gotthelf was born in Brooklyn, New York on December 30,1942.
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Allan Gotthelf received a Bachelor of Science in mathematics from Brooklyn College in 1963 and a Master of Arts in mathematics from Pennsylvania State University in 1964.
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Allan Gotthelf then received a Master of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy in philosophy from Columbia University in 1972 and 1975, respectively, where he studied under professors such as Aristotelian scholar John Herman Randall, Jr.
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Allan Gotthelf began his teaching career at Wesleyan University in Connecticut.
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Allan Gotthelf was an emeritus professor of philosophy at The College of New Jersey, a life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University, and visiting professor of the history and philosophy of science at the University of Pittsburgh, where he held the university's Fellowship for the Study of Objectivism from 2003 to 2012.
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Allan Gotthelf was one of the founders of the Ayn Rand Society, affiliated with the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, and held the position of secretary of the Society and chairman of its steering committee from 1990 until his death.
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Allan Gotthelf edited the Festschrift in honor of David M Balme, Aristotle on Nature and Living Things and co-edited Philosophical Issues in Aristotle's Biology.
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Gotthelf received many honors for his work on Aristotle, including in 2004 an international conference on "Aristotle on Being, Nature, and Life", held "in celebration of his contributions to the study of classical philosophy and science"; a volume of the proceedings, Being, Nature, and Life in Aristotle: Essays in Honor of Allan Gotthelf, edited by James G Lennox and Robert Bolton, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2010.
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Allan Gotthelf joined the department of philosophy at Rutgers University as the Anthem Foundation Distinguished Fellow in the fall of 2012, where he taught until his death from cancer on August 30,2013.
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Allan Gotthelf was introduced to Ayn Rand's thought in 1961 when, at the age of 18, he first read Atlas Shrugged.
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Allan Gotthelf attended many lecture courses and question periods at the Nathaniel Branden Institute, where he worked as an usher, and where in 1962 he first met Ayn Rand.
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Allan Gotthelf was Rand's choice for indexer of her collections, The Virtue of Selfishness and Capitalism: the Unknown Ideal.
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Allan Gotthelf is the author of On Ayn Rand, still the best-selling book in the Wadsworth Philosophers series, and he co-authored the entry on Rand in the Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers.
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The Allan Gotthelf Prize, established by the Classical Studies Faculty at The College of New Jersey upon Gotthelf's retirement, is awarded annually to an outstanding graduating senior for his or her work in the Classical Studies program.