Philosophy Department Welcomes New Faculty Member Gregory Fried.

We are pleased to announce the appointment of Gregory Fried as Professor here in the Philosophy Department.  He received his BA from Harvard College and his MA and PhD from the University of Chicago. He was previously Professor and Chair at the Philosophy Department at Suffolk University, and has taught at the University of Chicago, Boston University, and California State University Los Angeles. His research has focused on defending the classical Enlightenment tradition against some of its most serious critics, most particularly Martin Heidegger. He is the author of Heidegger’s Polemos: From Being to Politics. With Richard Polt, he is also the translator of three of Heidegger’s works, Introduction to Metaphysics, Being and Truth, and Nature, History, State. Together with his father, Charles Fried, he is the author of Because It Is Wrong: Torture, Privacy and Presidential Power in the Age of Terror (W. W. Norton, 2010), an exploration of moral, legal, and political questions in the post-9/11 world. Fried is also Director of The Mirror of Race Project, an online, interdisciplinary project exploring the meaning of race in America’s history, and he served as an executive producer for the documentary film Before the Trees Was Strange, directed by Derek Burrows.