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Columbia University

Philosophy Arts and Culture Aesthetics Epistemology Art History Visual Arts

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Arthur Danto was the Johnsonian Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Columbia University, where he served on the faculty for over four decades from 1951 until his retirement in 1992. Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and raised in Detroit, he earned a B.A. from Wayne State University in 1948, an M.A. from Columbia University in 1949, and a Ph.D. from Columbia in 1952. During his graduate studies, he held a Fulbright Fellowship at the University of Paris in 1950, studying under Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Danto progressed through the ranks at Columbia as instructor in 1951, assistant professor in 1954, associate professor in 1959, full professor in 1966, and Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy in 1975. He chaired the Department of Philosophy from 1976 to 1985, edited the Journal of Philosophy, and held leadership roles including Vice-President and President of the American Philosophical Association and President of the American Society for Aesthetics. A World War II Army veteran, Danto also served as art critic for The Nation from 1984 to 2009 and was an accomplished artist whose woodcuts were exhibited at institutions such as the Art Institute of Chicago.