Graduation Year: '87

address: Cardozo School of Law
55 Fifth Ave.
NEw York, NY 10003

occupation: Professor

Email address: ed@edstein.com

After graduating from Williams, I went directly into a Ph.D. program in
philosophy. I graduated from MIT in 1991 and then taught for a semster at
Williams, three years at NYU, one year at Mount Holyoke, and one year at
Yale. During that time, I published a book on rationality, epistemology
and cognitive science, edited an anthology on sexual orientation, and wrote
various articles on science, mind, knowledge, and ethics. For various
reasons, over my years of teaching philosophy, I felt a distance develop
between my own intellectual interests and the academic profession of philo-
sophy. I felt a pressure to narrow and specialize, while my instincts pushed
me in the other direction. I was also lucky to find myself in the vicinity
of a vibrant intellectual community at the law school at Yale and decided
to consider a career as a law professor. After three years back in school
(this time pursuing a JD), I ended up doing just that. I now am teaching
family law, sexual orientation, gender and the law, evidence and statutory
interpretation in a law school. I continue to pursue philosophy and my
philosophical training continues to inform my teaching and scholarship. And
many of my most intense intellectual connections are with philosophers.

So that is the career path of one Williams philosophy graduate.