Allan Gotthelf
| Allan Gotthelf | |
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| Born |
December 30, 1942 Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
| Died | August 30, 2013 (aged 70) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Alma mater | |
| Notable work | On Ayn Rand |
Allan Stanley Gotthelf (December 30, 1942 – August 30, 2013) was an American philosopher and a recognized authority on the philosophies of both Aristotle and Ayn Rand.
Gotthelf was born in Brooklyn, New York on December 30, 1942. He received a masters degree in mathematics from Pennsylvania State University, and a masters and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia University in 1975, where he studied under professors such as Aristotelian scholar John Herman Randall, Jr. An essay based on his doctoral dissertation (both titled Aristotle's Conception of Final Causality) won first prize in the Dissertation Essay Competition of The Review of Metaphysics and was published in that journal in December 1976. He began his teaching career at Wesleyan University in Connecticut.
He 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. He was one of the founders of the Ayn Rand Society (founded in 1987), 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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