Irving Singer
Professor of philosophy, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
In recent years, Irving Singer has been writing a cycle of four books on the philosophy of film, all of which are now finished and have been or shortly will be published by The MIT Press: Reality Transformed: Film as Meaning and Technique (1998, paperback 2000); Three Philosophical Filmmakers: Hitchcock, Welles, Renoir (2004, paperback 2005); Ingmar Bergman, Cinematic Philosopher: Reflections on his Creativity (2007); Cinematic Mythmaking: Philosophy in Film (2008).
He has also published an expanded edition of his book Sex: A Philosophical Primer (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004) and recently published Philosophy of Love: A Partial Summing-Up as well as new prefaces for the reprinting of his trilogy The Nature of Love, which will be the first segment of The Irving Singer Library that The MIT Press is reprinting together with most of his other books.
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