Marvin Farber was an American

United States

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 philosopher. He was born in Buffalo, New York, and died in Minneapolis. Farber was Professor

Professor

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 Emeritus at the University at Buffalo, and was Chairman of the Department of Philosophy there from 1937-1961. He founded the journal Philosophy and Phenomenological Research in 1940, and served as its editor until 1980. He was the older brother of cancer researcher Sidney Farber

Sidney Farber

Sidney Farber was a pediatric pathologist. He was born in 1903 in Buffalo, New York, the third oldest of a family of 14 children. He was a graduate of the University of Buffalo in 1923. He took his first year of medical school at the Universities of Heidelberg and Freiburg in Germany. He entered...

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External links

• Journal of Philosophy and Phenomenological Research at Brown University
  Brown University
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• Catalog of Marvin Farber papers at the University at Buffalo