Markar Melkonian

Markar Melkonian has taught philosophy for years at California State University, Northridge. He holds three graduate degrees, including a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His books include The Philosophy and Common Sense Reader: Writings on Critical Thinking (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020), which is the first and only reader on the topic, and the highly praised Richard Rorty’s Politics: Liberalism at the End of the American Century (Humanities Press, 1999). His research interests include skepticism, the philosophy of biology, the philosophy of social sciences, classical Indian philosophy, and the Presocratics. He has written on topics as varied as philosophy of death, the recent history of Lebanon, and the roles of nongovernmental organizations in the nominally independent states of the former Soviet Union. His scholarly articles, on topics ranging from political philosophy to California history, have appeared in many scholarly journals, and his books have been translated into four languages and counting.