1968) is an American philosopher, academic and author who has lectured at mainly South African universities.
Metz earned a PhD from the Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell University in 1997.
Metz has supervised doctoral students from many different countries,[3] including Mpho Tshivhase the first African woman from South Africa to get a PhD in philosophy[4][5] and Doreen Sesiro the first African woman from Botswana to do so.
[6] Much of his work 'takes an analytic approach to African morality, the meaning of life, the nature of mental health, the point of a university, the role of a legal system, and a range of other topics in value theory and moral-political philosophy'.
[7] In particular, he (alongside Susan R. Wolf) is often credited for having helped develop life's meaning as a distinct field in Anglo-American philosophy.