Steven M. Cahn 
Bronx Socrates [PDF ebook] 
Portrait of a Legendary Teacher

Academic life regularly honors leading scholars but rarely recognizes those who have excelled in undergraduate teaching. This volume salutes Professor of Philosophy Robert H. Gurland, a paragon in the classroom, who recently retired after having taught over 25, 000 students, primarily at New York University but also for a couple of years at the United States Military Academy at West Point. His impact on generations was immeasurable. Even in classes of over 200 he knew the names of all his students and something about each; over many decades he taught virtually the entire philosophy curriculum; and every semester he personally graded, with numerous detailed comments, the hundreds of papers submitted. In one student’s words, echoed by numerous others, ‘Over the course of my education I have had many professors but only one teacher.’

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Steven M. Cahn is Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center of The City University of New York. Among the seven books he has authored are ‘Fate, Logic, and Time; Saints and Scamps: Ethics in Academia, Revised Edition; and Puzzles & Perplexities: Collected Essays’. He has edited twenty-two books, including ‘Classics of Western Philosophy, Sixth Edition; Classics of Political and Moral Philosophy; Classic and Contemporary Readings in the Philosophy of Religion; Exploring Philosophy: An Introductory Anthology; The Affirmative Action Debate, Second Edition’; and ‘Philosophy for the 21st Century: A Comprehensive Reader’.