Andrew Pessin is an American philosopher who is currently a professor of philosophy at Connecticut College.
In addition to his academic work he has published a number of philosophy books for the general reader, as well as two novels.
His most recent novel, The Irrationalist: The Tragic Murder of René Descartes, is a historical murder mystery based on real events: the life of the famous 17th-century philosopher and mathematician René Descartes, and the mysterious circumstances surrounding his death.
'"[3] Pessin appeared in several episodes of the Late Show with David Letterman in the early 1990s in a sketch called The Strong Guy, The Fat Guy, The Genius.
[4] In 2015, Pessin was involved in controversy after a 2014 Facebook post resurfaced in which Pessin compared "the situation in Gaza" during the 2014 Gaza War to "a rabid pit bull is chained in a cage” that when set free “comes roaring bounding out, snarling, going for the throat.”[5] Pessin later clarified that the post was referring to Hamas specifically and not Palestinians.