1. Sidney Morgenbesser was an American philosopher and professor at Columbia University.
14 Facts About Sidney Morgenbesser
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Sidney Morgenbesser wrote little but is remembered by many for his philosophical witticisms.
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Sidney Morgenbesser was born on September 22,1921, in New York City and raised in Manhattan's Lower East Side.
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Sidney Morgenbesser then undertook rabbinic studies at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, receiving his degree there in 1944.
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Sidney Morgenbesser then pursued graduate study in philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Sidney Morgenbesser would teach at Swarthmore College and the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science of The New School for Social Research.
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Sidney Morgenbesser was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1963, and by 1966 he was made a full professor at Columbia.
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Sidney Morgenbesser continued to occasionally teach as a special lecturer there until 1999.
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Sidney Morgenbesser appeared on in an interview by Bryan Magee on the topic of American Pragmatism in 1987.
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Sidney Morgenbesser died on 1 August 2004 at St Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center in Manhattan at the age of 82, from complications due to ALS.
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Sidney Morgenbesser protested to the officer who tried to stop him that the rules covered smoking in the station, not outside.
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Sidney Morgenbesser published little and established no school, but was revered for his extraordinary intelligence and moral seriousness.
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Sidney Morgenbesser was a famously influential teacher; his former students included Jerry Fodor, Raymond Geuss, Alvin Goldman, Daniel M Hausman, Robert Nozick, Hilary Putnam, Gideon Rosen, Mark Steiner, and Michael Stocker.
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In 1967, Sidney Morgenbesser signed a letter declaring his intention to refuse to pay taxes in protest against the US war in Vietnam, and urging other people to take this stand.