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Irving Singer (December 24, 1925 – February 1, 2015) was an American professor of philosophy who was on the faculty of the Ingmar Bergman, Alfred Hitchcock,[1] Jean Renoir, and Orson Welles. Singer began publishing philosophy in 1951.
Singer was born in Brooklyn, New York City, on December 24, 1925;[2] his parents were Isadore and Nettie Stromer Singer, immigrants from Austria-Hungary, who owned a grocery store in Coney Island.[2][3]
Singer skipped three grades in school, graduating from Manhattan's Townsend Harris High School at age 15.[2][3]
He entered the U.S. Army, serving in World War II, writing History of the 210th Field Artillery Group, which was published by the Army in 1945.[2][3]
After studying for a short time at Brooklyn College before the war and attending Biarritz American University in Paris just after the war, Singer went to Harvard University on the G.I. Bill,[2][3] joined Phi Beta Kappa, and graduated summa cum laude with an A.B. in 1948.[3] He did his graduate studies at Oxford University and Harvard, receiving his PhD in philosophy from Harvard in 1952.[3]
Singer taught briefly at Harvard, Cornell University, the University of Michigan, and Johns Hopkins University. He joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1958, first as a lecturer, but then promoted to associate professor in 1959, and full professor at 1967.[1] He died in 2015.[2]
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