I got it from one of my all-time favorite teachers, who did eventually take home a professor-of-the-year prize at SBCC before retiring, but check out this futile-to-Google name: JOE WHITE. I'd aced his logic class (note #pride), then joined his philosophy 101 class. Also taught Thomas Nagel essays…

What Does It All Mean?

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Here's a piece on Joe White's retiring, FWIW, and also (correction) I meant Philosophy 100. www.thechannels.org/features/201... (the hair and sideburns were basically black while I was in his class, which should date me to ~when he got named Dept. Chair, but the greying seems to come for us all.)

Prof. Joe White says goodbye to SBCC after 32 years of impact

Philosophy Department Chair Joseph White announced that Spring 2017 will be his last semester teaching at City College. “It seems like the right time,” he said commenting on his retirement. He is one ...