Crispin Gallagher Sartwell was born on June 20,1958 and is an American academic, philosopher, and journalist who was a faculty member of the philosophy department at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania until he retired in 2023.
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Crispin Sartwell has taught philosophy, communication, and political science at Vanderbilt University, University of Alabama, Millersville University of Pennsylvania, the Maryland Institute College of Art, and Dickinson College.
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Crispin Sartwell's grandfather, Franklin Gallagher Sartwell, was a columnist and editorial page editor at the Washington Times-Herald.
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Crispin Sartwell worked as a freelance rock critic for publications, including Record and Melody Maker.
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Crispin Sartwell received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Maryland, College Park, a Master of Arts from Johns Hopkins University and a PhD from the University of Virginia, where his dissertation supervisor was Richard Rorty.
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Crispin Sartwell wrote his dissertation on art and articulation, discussing pictorial representation in John Dewey, Martin Heidegger, Nelson Goodman, and Hans-Georg Gadamer.
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Crispin Sartwell has continued to write for the popular press, with work appearing in The New York Times as a contributing writer to the Times's philosophy section, The Stone.
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Crispin Sartwell has been published in The Atlantic, Harper's Bazaar, The Washington Post, All Things Considered and other venues.
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Crispin Sartwell has appeared on Washington Journal, discussing political philosophy and ethics.
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Crispin Sartwell remains actively involved in music criticism, including writing a country music column for the New York Press.
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Crispin Sartwell is a regular contributor to the webzine Splice Today.
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From 1989 through 1993, Sartwell was an Andrew W Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Vanderbilt University.
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From 1995 to 1996, Crispin Sartwell was an Annenberg Scholar in the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Crispin Sartwell is best known as a political philosopher, with significant interests in analytic philosophy, aesthetics, and epistemology.
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On March 3,2016, Crispin Sartwell was placed on leave from his faculty position at Dickinson College in response to posts on his blog in which he accused other philosophy professors of plagiarism.
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In September, 2016, The Dickinsonian reported that Crispin Sartwell had returned to his position and would resume teaching in the spring of 2017.