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Even though he never received his Ph.D. Dreben is one of the most highly respected and sought-after members of the Philosophy Department--by professors and graduate students alike. And as head of the Society of Fellows, he runs the select Harvard organization that brings highly promising graduate students here for three free no-strings-attached years of pure research...
...Dreben is also a close friend of Rosovsky's and a long-standing member of the dean's small "kitchen cabinet" of academic deans. This council--which also includes, among others, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education Sidney Verba '53 and Dean of the Graduate School Edward L. Keenan '57--carries much of the Faculty's administrative load...
...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...