J.P. Rosensweig is the Director of The Philosophy Institute: Bringing Ideas to Life, which he founded in 1999. Currently a Ph.D. student in Philosophy at the University of Chicago, he received his M.A. in Philosophy there in 1994, and his B.A. from Yale University in Intellectual History in 1988. In 1990-91, he studied philosophy at the University of Cambridge in England as a visiting scholar.

     In the spring of 2000, Mr. Rosensweig presented a talk at the national conference of the Foundation for Ethics and Meaning, home of the Politics of Meaning, on why philosophy is often thought of as merely an intellectual exercise, and, on the contrary, how it can be crucial in helping us, at a societal and individual level, lead more fulfilling lives. In the summer of 1999, Mr. Rosensweig presented a talk at the annual conference for the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning, on how to teach philosophy so that it matters to people's lives. Among the honors he has received are being selected to Phi Beta Kappa after his third year at Yale (approximately top 3% of the class), and receiving the Century Fellowship at the University of Chicago, the highest fellowship university-wide for incoming Ph.D. students. For the last few years he has been taking a break from his dissertation to write philosophy in a literary style.

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