Michael Krausz was born on 1942 and is a Swiss-born American philosopher as well as an artist and orchestral conductor.
19 Facts About Michael Krausz
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Michael Krausz has taught at University of Toronto and has been visiting professor at American University, Georgetown University, Oxford University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, American University in Cairo, University of Nairobi, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, and University of Ulm, among others.
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Michael Krausz earned a PhD from University of Toronto, including post-graduate work at Linacre College, Oxford University.
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Michael Krausz was a Special Student at the London School of Economics, and holds a BA from Rutgers University and an MA from Indiana University.
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Michael Krausz currently serves as series editor for a number of publications, including Brill Publishers Series in Philosophy of History and Culture, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers Series on Philosophy and the Global Context, Rodopi Publishers Series on Interpretation and Translation, and Penn State University Press Series of the Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium.
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Michael Krausz affirms that the contest between singularism and multiplism is logically detachable from the contest between realism and constructivism.
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Michael Krausz extends the notion of ideals of interpretation to ideals of life paths or projects, such as self-realization.
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Michael Krausz develops the idea of directional multiplism from a non-essentialist or non-foundational view of human nature.
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Michael Krausz considers relativism as the claim that truth, goodness, or beauty is relative to some reference frame, and no absolute standards to adjudicate between reference frames exist.
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Michael Krausz defines and differentiates various strands of absolutism: realism, universalism and foundationalism.
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Michael Krausz argues that when these strands of absolutism are unwoven, and when relativism is understood as the negation of these strands, classical self-refutation arguments against relativism do not apply.
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Michael Krausz suggests that the assertion of undifferentiated unity, instanced for example in some Asian soteriologies, is compatible with relativism as here he defines it.
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Michael Krausz is the founding Artistic Director and Conductor of the Great Hall Chamber Orchestra at Bryn Mawr.
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Michael Krausz received his early conducting coaching from his father, Laszlo Krausz, noted violist with l'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and the Cleveland Orchestra, and conductor of the Akron Symphony Orchestra.
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Michael Krausz has been guest conductor of professional orchestras in Bulgaria, including the Pleven, Vratsa and Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestras.
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Michael Krausz has had thirty-three solo and duo shows in galleries in the US, UK, and India, and he has participated in many group exhibitions.
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Michael Krausz studied at the Philadelphia College of Art and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts.
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Michael Krausz's artworks have been reproduced in numerous publications including the British journal, Leonardo.
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Michael Krausz's paintings depict various spatial planes at once, embodying scripted messages of no literal significance.