Mark Richard

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Mark Richard was born in Manhattan and grew up surrounded by potato fields, clams, and bluefish on eastern Long Island. He spent four very cold years in central New York state wondering why he didn't go to college somewhere warmer. After a year at the University of Freiburg in Germany with brief sojourns in Rome, Paris, and Lille, he returned to the US and was a substitute teacher in the Boston Public School system. Shortly thereafter, while at UMass / Amherst, meaning to study political philosophy he was seduced by philosophy of language and linguistics. He is now a professor in the Philosophy Department at Harvard University. He has many regrets, among them that he didn't climb Mt. Rainier before his knees reached their present sorry state.