Irving Singer

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Irving Singer
Born(1925-12-24)December 24, 1925
Brooklyn, New York, USA
DiedFebruary 1, 2015(2015-02-01) (aged 89)
NationalityAmerican
Notable work(see published works below)
Awards(see awards below)
EraContemporary philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolHumanist[citation needed]
InstitutionsHarvard, MIT
Main interests
Aesthetics, philosophy of love, philosophy of film[citation needed]
Websitewww.mit.edu/~philos/singer.html

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

Singer was born in Brooklyn, New York City, on December 24, 1925;[2] his parents were Isadore and Nettie Stromer Singer, Jewish immigrants from Austria-Hungary, who owned a grocery store in Coney Island.[2][3]

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

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] Among the many subjects Singer taught at Massachusetts Institute of Technology were: Philosophy of Love in the Western World, Film as Visual and Literary Philosophy, and The Nature of Creativity.[4]

He died in 2015, aged 89.[2]

Awards

  • Four prize essays and other student awards,[specify] Harvard University[5]
  • ACLS Research Scholar, 1949–1950[5]
  • Post-doctoral Fulbright Research Scholar, 1955–1956[5]
  • Bollingen Grant-in-aid, 1958, 1959, 1965[5]
  • The Hudson Review Fellow in Criticism, 1958–1959[5]
  • Guggenheim Fellowship, 1965–1966[5]
  • ACLS Grant-in-aid, 1966[5]
  • Fellow of the Villa I Tatti, Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Florence, Italy, 1965–1967[5]
  • Bollingen Fellowship, 1966–1967[5]
  • Rockefeller Foundation Grant, 1970[5]
  • Balliol College/MIT Exchange, Oxford University, 1999[5]
  • Fellow, European Humanities Research Centre, Oxford University, 1999–2004[5]

Published works

By Singer

About Singer

References

  1. ^ a b c "Irving Singer, MIT philosopher and author, retires after 55 years" (Press release). Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. 2013. Retrieved 2014-02-17.
  2. ^
    NYTimes.com
    . New York City: The New York Times Company. Retrieved 2015-02-17.
  3. ^ a b c d e f "Irving Singer, professor emeritus of philosophy, dies at 89". MIT News. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. February 8, 2015. Archived from the original on 9 February 2015. Retrieved 9 February 2015.
  4. ^ "MIT SHASS: News - 2013 - Irving Singer, MIT philosopher and author, retires after 55 years". shass.mit.edu. Retrieved 2022-08-31.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Singer, Irving (August 1, 2008). "Curriculum vitae" (PDF). Retrieved 2015-02-17.

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LocationMassachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Distinctive Collections, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Datesapproximately 1950s to 2000s
AccessThis collection is open
SourceIrving Singer papers
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