Robert Fogelin


Robert John Fogelin was an American philosopher. He was a professor of philosophy and Sherman Fairchild Professor in the humanities at Dartmouth College where he had taught since 1980. He was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005.

Education and career

Fogelin received his B.A. from the University of Rochester in 1955. In 1957 he received his M.A. from Yale University and in 1960 his Ph.D. also from Yale. He joined the faculty of Pomona College in 1958. In 1966, he became an associate professor at Yale. He served as master of Yale's Trumbull College from 1973 to 1976. Fogelin remained at Yale until 1980 when he became a professor at Dartmouth. He was interested in Pyrrhonism.
Fogelin died on October 24, 2016, after struggling with Parkinson's disease.

Selected publications