Cahn, Steven: - Steven M. Cahn (PhD, Philosophy, Columbia) is Professor of Philosophy at The City University of New York Graduate Center, where he served for nearly a decade as Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, then as Acting President. He is the author and editor of numerous books, including From Student to Scholar (Columbia, 2008), Fate, Time, and Language (Columbia, 2010), Polishing Your Prose (Columbia, 2013), Freedom and the Self (Columbia, 2015), Happiness and Goodness (Columbia, 2015), and Religion Within Reason (Columbia, 2017); his textbooks and anthologies on ethics, philosophy of religion, and introduction to philosophy, published by Oxford, have appeared in multiple editions.