Michael Peter Davis

He is currently Professor Emeritus at Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York, where he taught from 1977-2022 and held the Sara Yates Exley Chair in Teaching Excellence.

[2][3][4] In the late 1970s, Davis began a long association and friendship with Seth Benardete, of whose works he is one of the principal interpreters.

[10] He is the translator, with Seth Benardete, of Aristotle's On Poetics and has written on a variety of philosophers from Plato to Heidegger and of literary figures ranging from Homer and the Greek tragedians to Saul Bellow and Tom Stoppard.

[11][12] The other primary influence on Davis's thought is Plato, for whom the necessary connection between the practical and the theoretical shows up in the dialogic form of philosophy.

[13][14][15] From Plato, Davis learns how philosophy must be esoteric, not primarily in a political but in a metaphysical sense, a view he developed in conversation and collaboration with Seth Benardete.