David Pitt received his PhD in philosophy from the City University of New York Graduate Center in 1994. Since 2003 he has been a member of the philosophy department at California State University, Los Angeles. In between he held visiting professorships at Swarthmore College, Hunter College, University of Nebraksa-Lincoln, Brooklyn College, Iowa State University, and Central European University, Budapest, where he was a Fulbright Scholar in 2014-15. He has also held research fellowships at Australian National University, the Institute for Advanced Study at Central European University, and Cambridge University.