Michael Krausz
Milton C. Nahm Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D., University of Toronto
Office: Thomas 122
Office Hours: T 3:30-5, and by appointment
610.526.5062
mkrausz@brynmawr.edu
Specializations: Theory of knowledge, philosophy of science, philosophy of history, aesthetics, and philosophy of music
Michael Krausz is the Milton C. Nahm Professor of Philosophy at Bryn Mawr College. Trained at the Universities of Toronto and Oxford, he has been visiting professor at Georgetown University, Oxford University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, American University in Cairo, University of Nairobi, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, University of Ulm, and others. Krausz is the author of Rightness and Reasons: Interpretation in Cultural Practices (Cornell University Press), 1993; Varieties of Relativism, with Rom Harré (Basil Blackwell Publishers), 1995; Limits of Rightness (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers), 2000; and Interpretation and Transformation: Explorations in Art and the Self (Rodopi Publishers), 2006. He is also contributing editor of Critical Essays on the Philosophy of R. G. Collingwood (Clarendon Press, Oxford), 1972; Relativism: Interpretation and Confrontation (Notre Dame University Press), 1989; The Interpretation of Music: Philosophical Essays (Clarendon Press, Oxford), 1993; Is There a Single Right Interpretation? (Pennsylvania State University Press), 2002; and Relativism: A Compendium (Columbia University Press, in production). Krausz is contributing co-editor of The Concept of Creativity in Science and Art (Nijhoff Publishers), 1981; Relativism: Cognitive and Moral (Notre Dame University Press), 1984; Rationality, Relativism and the Human Sciences (Nijhoff Publishers), 1986; Jewish Identity (Temple University Press), 1993; Interpretation, Relativism and the Metaphysics of Culture (Humanity Press), 1999; and The Idea of Creativity (Brill Publishers), 2009. Krausz is the co-founder and former Chair of the thirteen-institution Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium. In 1997 Krausz was awarded the Hans Kupczyk Prize from the University of Ulm. In 2001 the University of Delhi sponsored a four-day international conference on his philosophical work. In 2003 a festschrift dedicated to Krausz's work, entitled Interpretation and Its Objects: Studies in the Philosophy of Michael Krausz, was edited by Andreea Deciu Ritivoi and published by Rodopi Publishers.
Krausz's creative activities include art and music. He has had twenty-one solo exhibitions in galleries in the U.S., U.K. and India. And, since 2005, he has been the Artistic Director and Conductor of the Great Hall Chamber Orchestra at Bryn Mawr, comprised of forty-two conservatory and young professional musicians.
Courses for 2008-2009:
Aesthetics: Nature and Experience of Art
Relativism: Cognitive and Moral
Courses Regularly Taught:
Relativism: Cognitive and Moral
Philosophy of History