Allan Jay Silverman (born 1955) is an American philosopher and Professor of

Philosophy Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

at the

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. He is also a Faculty Fellow at

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. Silverman is known for his expertise on

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Books

* '' The Dialectic of Essence: A Study of Plato's Metaphysics'',

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, 2003

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Allan Silverman at the Ohio State University
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