David Peritz

David Peritz is a professor at Sarah Lawrence College, where he teaches courses on the history of political and social philosophy and contemporary political and social issues. He received his Ph.D. from Oxford University, is the recipient of a Marshall Scholarship and has taught at Harvard, Deep Springs, Dartmouth, UC Berkeley, and Cornell at different points in his career. His research specialization is modern and contemporary political philosophy, especially theories of democracy and justice and their relation to issues of diversity and inequality. He also teaches in lifelong learning for the Fromm Institute of the University of San Francisco and the Osher Life Long Learning Institutes, a passion he has sustained over the last 20 years. Finally, David has an emerging research interest in the philosophy of aging, specifically the question of how we maintain vitality and the respect of ourselves as well as others across the entirety of life, especially in light of the current lifespan revolution.