Background
Krausz, Michael was born on September 13, 1942 in Geneva, Switzerland. Son of Laszlo and Susan Beate (Strauss) Krausz.
Krausz, Michael was born on September 13, 1942 in Geneva, Switzerland. Son of Laszlo and Susan Beate (Strauss) Krausz.
Graduate University of Oxford-England, 1968-1969.
Instructor York University, Toronto, Ontario, 1966-1967, U. Toronto 1967-1968, TrentU., Peterborough, Ontario, 1969-1970. Assistant professor of University Toronto, 1969-1970. Assistant then associate professor philosophy Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, 1970-1983, professor, 1983.
Milton C. Nahm chair in philosophy, 1991.
Acting department chairman, 1983-1984, department chairman, 1993. Visiting assistant professor American University, Washington, 1973-1974.
Visiting professor lecturer Georgetown University, 1977-1979, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1978, Swarthmore College, 1980-1981, Haverford College, 1981-1982, U. Nairobi, 1985. Distinguished visiting professor American U. in Cairo, 1980.
Special lecturer U.Oxford, 1987, 88, 89.
Chairman external review committee Department Philosophy, Swarthmore College, 1987, Smith College, 1990. Research associate to vice prin.Linacre College, University of Oxford, 1988, visiting senior member, 1986-1990. Visiting senior member Linacre College, 1986-1990.
Visiting professor Indian Institute Advanced Studies, Shimla, India, 1992, U. Ulm, 1997.
Company-director Conferences on Philosophy of Human Studies, 1981-1988, chairman, 1988-1994, Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium. Convenor various conferences and commission Bryn Mawr College.
Referee National Endowment for Humanities,1978, 82, Journal Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 1986, Nous, 1996, others Author: Rightness and Reasons: Interpretation in Cultural Practices, 1993.
Company-author: (with Rom Harré) Varieties of Relativism, 1995.
Editor: Critical Essays on the Philosophy of Radh Govinda Collingwood, 1972. Relativism: Interpretation and Confrontation, 1989, The Interpretation of Music, 1993. Company-editor: The Concept of Creativity in Science and Art, 1981, Relativism: Cognitive and Moral, 1982, Rationality, Relativism, and the Human Sciences, 1986, Jewish Identity, 1993 Interpictation, Relativism & the Metaphysics of Culture, 1998.
Editor seriesin Philosophy of History and Culture, The Netherlands, 1986, Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Cosortium Series, Philosophy in the Global Context, 1995.
Author reviews, papers. Contributor numerous articles to profl.jours.
Founder, president, associate artistic director Philadelphia Chamber Orchestra, 1984. Board directors Solisti New York, 1987-1988.
Fellow Royal Society Arts, London,1973, Andrew Mellon, Aspen Institute for Humanitic Studies, 1977-1978, Ossabaw Foundation, 1978, 80. Member American Philosophical Association, American Society for Aesthetics (program chairman Eastern division 1987, chairman steering committee Eastern division 1989-1990, program chairman national division 1991.
Married Constance Frances Costigan.