Robert Solomon

Robert C. Solomon (September 14, 1942 – January 2, 2007) was a professor of Continental philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin in the USA.

Solomon was born in Detroit, Michigan, USA. His father was a lawyer, and his mother an artist. He was born with a hole in his heart and was not expected to live into adulthood. After earning a B.A. in microbiology (1963) at the University of Pennsylvania, he moved to the University of Michigan to study medicine, switching to philosophy for an M.A. (1965) and Ph.D. (1967).