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...wide interest in “philosophy of mind” and his academic strengths. It was entitled, “Knowledge, Mind, and World: an Exercise in Descriptive Epistemology.” Even though he says it was “extraordinarily broad,” it earned Allen a magna cum laude degree...
While the Harvard of the late 1970s was a comfortable fit for Allen, allowing him to cultivate “a combination of intellectual seriousness and playfulness,” he wonders if the result was a wealth of knowledge that may have been too broad...
...speaks with the softness and delicacy of a patient philosopher, meting out meaning, carefully navigating over a busy landscape of thought. In college, he says that navigation involved “jumping over the hurdles that society associates with eventual success.” But Allen never saw academic life as a race for professional achievement...
After graduating, Allen eschewed the job market and traditional professional school path and instead gleefully travelled to England’s Sussex University for a one-year Masters degree program in philosophy. His return stateside in 1979 found him working as a research assistant at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education and in New York City, where he took a much-needed breather from the academy...
...Allen soon decided he needed to “do something useful” someplace outside of New York. So he took a job as a teacher at Kutama College, an elite high school in Zimbabwe. Aside from teaching science and math and coaching the swim team, Allen helped the Science Club to win a national competition for a psychological study on attitudinal changes during high school. Ultimately the teaching experience was as edifying as his years as an undergraduate...