Word: dreben
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dreben's friendship with Rosovsky dates back to the early 1950s, when both were junior members of the Society of Fellows. After his three-year stint at the Society. Dreben went to teach at the University of Chicago for a year before returning in 1956 to Harvard's Philosophy Department, where he has been ever since...
...Dreben was able to win a teaching position despite his lack of Ph.D. because of his stint in the Society of Fellows. And he says that the lack of a Ph.D. has never hurt him professionally...
...Dreben's field is a combination of logic, philosophy and mathematics. But while he has published numerous articles in logic, he has published not a word in philosophy proper...
...Dreben has been at work for a number of years on reinterpreting several 20th century figures in analytic philosophy, a field "which has invented a false history of itself," says Putnam. Dreben, he says, "is lifting the rug up to see what actually happened...
...Dreben says he isn't worried in the least about his output. The manuscripts he keeps in locked files in his Emerson Hall office are simply not ready for publication. "I keep rethinking them...I find it difficult to come to any final conclusions...