New York University
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                                        John RichardsonJohn Richardson
Professor of Philosophy

Department of Philosophy
5 Washington Place
New York, NY 10003 

Phone: (212) 998-8334

Fax: (212) 995-4179

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Ph.D. 1981 (philosophy), California (Berkeley) B.A. 1974 (philosophy, politics, and economics), Oxford B.A. 1972 (philosophy), Harvard.



JOHN RICHARDSON (Ph.D., UC Berkeley), Professor of Philosophy. He works primarily in 19th and 20th century Continental philosophy, in particular on Nietzsche and Heidegger. He has a strong secondary interest in ancient philosophy, especially in Aristotle. Recently he has focused on issues concerning teleology in these philosophers, and has explored relations with recent philosophy of biology and evolutionary theory.  He is the author of Existential Epistemology; A Heideggerian Critique of the Cartesian Project (Oxford, 1986), Nietzsche's System (Oxford, 1996), and Nietzsche's New Darwinism (Oxford, 2004). He is a co-editor of Nietzsche (2001) in the series Oxford Readings in Philosophy.

Online Papers
Aristotle's Teleologies
Nietzsche’s Freedoms

Courses
Undergraduate
Philosophy of Biology, Spring 1997
Topics in the History of Philosophy: Aristotle's biology, Fall 1997

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