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...same parents who valued his scholarly success were not always comfortable with other aspects of their son. Goldfarb says his late father never wanted to meet the partner the professor has now lived with for more than 15 years...
...college his parents prized so highly, despite fears that their son would encounter anti-Semitism, was a happy place for Goldfarb. He was involved in the Gilbert and Sullivan Players, the Lowell House Opera and Hillel, and he says he met no serious anti-Semitism...
...introductory class on logic and a General Education introduction to philosophy his first year that sparked the intellectual passion that has shaped his academic life ever since. Goldfarb was a mathematics major, but the philosophical questions were impossible for him to ignore...
...either "go on with ordinary uncritical practices of gathering knowledge," or one can seek to explore how that knowledge fits into a logical framework and what precisely constitutes "knowledge," he says. It is this exploration to which Goldfarb is dedicated, whether or not society ever understands the answers he provides...
...intellectual quest and the successful academic career it brought was only half of the story of Goldfarb's time at Harvard. When he was a happy undergraduate, despite the agitation for equal rights and accep tance at Harvard in the late 1960s, he was in a place where gays were "perverts" and coming out was impossible...