Daniel O. Dahlstrom
American philosopher

Daniel Oscar Dahlstrom (born 1948) is an American philosopher and John R. Silber Professor of Philosophy at Boston University.
Works
Identity, Authenticity, and Humility. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2017.
The Heidegger Dictionary. New York: Bloomsbury Academics, 2013.
Dahlstrom, Daniel O. (2008). Philosophical Legacies: Essays on the Thought of Kant, Hegel, and Their Contemporaries (Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy, Volume 50). Catholic University of America Press. doi:10.2307/j.ctt284z77. ISBN 978-0-8132-1521-1.
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