Deborah K. W. Modrak is a
classicist
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who focuses on
Aristotle
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and who is
professor
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of
philosophy
Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...
at the
University of Rochester.
Biography
Modrak earned her doctorate at the
University of Chicago
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in 1974.
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Living people
20th-century American philosophers
Commentators on Aristotle
Year of birth missing (living people)
University of Chicago alumni
University of Rochester faculty
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