About the Author

Seymour W. Itzkoff was trained in philosophy at Columbia University. Now an Emeritus Professor, he taught for many years at Smith College. He is the author of nineteen scholarly books, including several studies of the neo-Kantian philosopher, Ernst Cassirer, and a book on the art of cellist Emanuel Feuermann. Most recently, his Inevitable Domination by Man, An Evolutionary Detective Story, has received critical scientific acclaim.