Robert Denoon Cumming (October 27, 1916 – 25 August 2004) was a Canadian-American philosopher and historian of twentieth-century Continental philosophy, especially phenomenology.
He taught at Columbia University from 1948 to 1985, when he retired as Frederick E. Woodbridge professor emeritus of philosophy.
[1] Born in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Cumming grew up in Bangor, Maine.
in classics, summa cum laude, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
[1] After the war he studied at the Sorbonne, gaining his PhD in philosophy from the University of Chicago in 1950 under the supervision of Richard McKeon.