Carlos Fraenkel is James McGill Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Studies at McGill University in Montreal. His publications include From Maimonides to Samuel ibn Tibbon: The Transformation of the Dalalat al-Ha irn into the Moreh ha-Nevuhhim (Hebrew, Magnes Press, 2007), Philosophical Religions from Plato to Spinoza: Reason, Religion, and Autonomy (CUP, 2012), and Teaching Plato in Palestine: Philosophy in a Divided World (Princeton University Press, 2015). He is currently writing a book on the purpose of philosophy and a family memoir.

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