David Sidorsky

David Sidorsky
Professor Emeritus
Born (1927-07-07) July 7, 1927
Calgary, Canada
Occupation Philosopher, Professor
Years active 1959-2008
Known for Studies on John Dewey, Sidney Hook
Academic background
Education New York University
Alma mater Columbia University
Thesis The Nature of Disagreement in Social Philosophy: Four Criticisms of Liberalism (1959)
Academic work
Doctoral students Elliot N. Dorff

David Sidorsky is a 20th-Century American professor of philosophy, who first taught at Columbia University in 1959 and remains a professor emeritus there.[1][2][3]

Background

Statue of Alma mater in front of Butler Library at Columbia University, with which Sidorsky has been associated for more than half a century

David Sidorsky was born on July 7, 1925, in Calgary, Canada. He received a BA in 1948 and MA in 1954 from New York University. He received his doctorate in philosophy from Columbia University in 1962.[1][2][3] He wrote his doctoral dissertation on "The Nature of Disagreement in Social Philosophy: Four Criticisms of Liberalism."[4]

Career

In 1959, Sidorsky began teaching philosophy at Columbia, with primary interests in moral and political philosophy, as well as philosophy of literature and the 20th century philosophy and American philosophy.[1]

He has also taught philosophy at New York University.[2]

In 1981, Sidorsky began an association now lasting more than three decades with the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) by joining its board of directors.[5] By 1987, he had moved to JINSA's advisory board,[6] where he remained a member until at least as late as 2011.[7] (JINSA, is a pro-Israel non-profit think-tank, founded in 1976 and based in Washington, DC.)

Students

Sirdorsky's doctoral students include Thomas Robert Flynn,[8] Elliot N. Dorff (1971), and Kaveh Kamooneh (1999).[9]

Personal life

US stamp of John Dewey (1968), of whom Sidorsky is a lifelong disciple

Sidorsky is a lifelong disciple of John Dewey. Teachers and colleagues include: Frank Tannenbaum, James Goodman, Horace Friess, John Herman Randall Jr., J. L. Austin, and Gilbert Ryle.[2]

Sidorsky appears in the documentary Tom's Restaurant - A Documentary About Everything (2014).[10] Eater.com described Sidorsky as "doe eyed cupid of a classics [sic] professor."[11]

Legacy

Rabbi Elliot N. Dorff dedicated his book To Do the Right and the Good (2004) to Sidorsky.[2]

Works

Sidorsky's works include[1]:

Essays:

  • "Moral Pluralism and Philanthropy," Social Philosophy and Policy
  • "Contemporary Reinterpretations of the Concept of Human Rights," Iyyun
  • "The Third Concept of Liberty and the Politics of Identity," Partisan Review
  • "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Pluralist Perspectives," NOMOS
  • "Modernism and the Emancipation of Literature from Morality: Teleology and Vocation in Proust, Joyce, and Ford Maddox Ford," New Literary History
  • "The Historical Novel as the Denial of History: From Nestor via the Vico Road to the Commodius Vicus of Recirculation," New Literary History
  • "The Uses of the Philosophy of G.E. Moore in the Works of E.M. Forster," New Literary History
  • "Pragmatism: Method, Metaphysics, and Morals," German Encyclopedia of Pragmatism
  • "A Note on Three Criticisms of Von Wright," Journal of Philosophy (1965)
  • "Philosophy, Politics and Society," with Peter Laslett and W. G. Runciman, Philosophical Review (1966)
  • "Are rules of moral thinking neutral? A note on liberty and equality," Mind 77 (1968)
  • "Contextualism, Pluralism, and Distributive Justice," Social Philosophy and Policy (1983)
  • "Moral Pluralism and Philanthropy," Social Philosophy and Policy (1987)
  • "Razón, igualdad y el dilema de la práctica," Apuntes Filosóficos (1993)
  • "Contextualismo, pluralismo y justicia distributiva," Apuntes Filosófico (1994)
  • "Correspondencia" with Roberto Bravo, Apuntes Filosofico (1994)
  • "Incomplete Routes to Moral Objectivity: Four Variants of Naturalism," Social Philosophy and Policy (2001)
  • "Incomplete Routes to Moral Objectivity: Rationalism and Pluralism," Yearbook for Philosophical Hermeneutics
  • "The Uses of the Philosophy of G. E. Moore in the Works of E. M. Forster," New Literary History (2007)
  • "Sidney Hook," Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2008)[12]

Books Edited or Introduced:

  • The Alliluyev Memoirs: Recollections Of Svetlana Stalina's Maternal Aunt Anna Alliluyeva And Her Grandfather Sergei Alliluyev with David Tutaev (1968)
  • The Liberal Tradition in European Thought (1970)
  • The Future of the Jewish Community in America: Essays Prepared for a Task Force on the Future of the Jewish Community in America of the American Jewish Committee (1973) with Walter I. Ackerman
  • John Dewey: The Essential Writings (1977)
  • The Later Works of John Dewey, Volume 3, 1925 - 1953: 1927-1928, Essays, Reviews, Miscellany, and "Impressions of Soviet Russia", edited by Jo Ann Boydston (1988)
  • Vision Confronts Reality: Historical Perspectives on the Contemporary Jewish Agenda (1989) edited by Ruth Kozodoy

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "David Sidorsky". Columbia University. Retrieved 25 August 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "David Sidorsky". Columbia College Today. Winter 2012. Retrieved 25 August 2018.
  3. 1 2 "David Sidorsky". The Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers. 2010. Retrieved 25 August 2018.
  4. ↑ "The Nature of Disagreement in Social Philosophy: Four Criticisms of Liberalism". Philosophical Papers. Retrieved 25 August 2018.
  5. ↑ "JINSA Newsletter" (PDF). Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs. February 1981. Retrieved 27 August 2018.
  6. ↑ "JINSA Newsletter" (PDF). Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs. March 1987. Retrieved 27 August 2018.
  7. ↑ "JINSA 2011 Annual Report" (PDF). Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs. March 1987. Retrieved 27 August 2018.
  8. ↑ "Thomas Robert Flynn". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Retrieved 25 August 2018.
  9. ↑ "Kaveh Kamooneh". Georgia State University. Retrieved 25 August 2018.
  10. ↑ "David Sidorsky". IMDB. Retrieved 25 August 2018.
  11. ↑ Stein, Joshua David (22 October 2014). "'Tom's Restaurant: A Documentary About Everything' Is Mostly About Nothing". Eater.com. Retrieved 25 August 2018.
  12. ↑ Sidorsky, David (8 May 2008). "Sidney Hook". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Retrieved 25 August 2018.

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