Andreas Teuber

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Andreas Teuber is the Associate Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Brandeis University. Teuber is also a Member and Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He studied under the famous philosophers John Rawls and Robert Nozick, and has influenced other philosophers and other scholars. [1][2]

In an earlier career, Teuber was an actor. As an Oxford University student, he performed in Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor's vanity-project, Doctor Faustus, where he garnered favorable reviews as Mephistopheles in a movie that saw few good marks.[3] He also guest-starred on the TV series I Spy and The Big Valley.[4]

[edit] Academic Work

Teuber holds a B.A. and a Ph.D from Harvard University.

Among his academic works are:

  • Teuber, A, "Justifying Risk," Daedalus 119 (4): 235-254 Fall 1990
  • Teuber, A, "Spheres of Justice" Political Theory 12 (1): 118-123 1984
  • Teuber, A, " Kantian perspectives", Political theory, 11 (3): 369-392 1983
  • Teuber, A, "Simone Weil: Equality as Compassion," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 43 (2): 221-237 1982
  • Teuber, A, The Relevant Reasons for Distributing Healthcare" Southern Journal of Philosophy, 19 (4): 517-530 1981


He has also published a number of more general popular works, including

  • Teuber, Andreas. Twenty One Legal Puzzlers: A Series of Short Takes and Murder Mysteries in Criminal, Civil and Constitutional Law Complete with Commentaries. Focus Publishing, 2005.
  • Teuber, Andreas. "Christopher Marlowe's Dr. Faustus in Performance." Shakespeare and the Classroom XIII. 1 (2005).
  • Teuber, Andreas. "Dr. Faustus on Stage and Film." Marlowe's Dr. Faustus. Ed. Lake, James & Ribner, Irving. Pullins and Company, 2004

[edit] References

  1. ^ Lawrence A Blum, "Moral perception and particularity" Cambridge University Press, 1994. ISBN: 0521430283 "Acknowledgments"
  2. ^ John Borneman, "Belonging in the Two Berlins: Kin, State, Nation" Cambridge University Press, 1992. ISBN: 0521415896 "Introduction"
  3. ^ Renata Adler, "Screen: Faustus Sells His Soul Again:Burtons and Oxford Do the Devil's Work", New York Times, 7 Feb. 1968
  4. ^ Kelly, Kevin. "Andreas Teuber's work at Poets' Theater reflects his split identity - and open mind." Boston Globe. Sept. 4, 1992.

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