Alexander Nehamas

Edmund N. Carpenter II Class of 1943 Professor in the Humanities, Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature Emeritus

Princeton University, United States

A graduate of Athens College, Swarthmore College and Princeton University, Alexander Nehamas taught at Princeton for many years. He has written books on Plato, Socrates, Nietzsche, Beauty, and Friendship. He was President of the American Philosophical Association, the Gifford Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, a member of the American Philosophical Society, and holds the Chair of the History of Philosophy at the Academy of Athens.