the William H. Colvin Professor in Philosophy, received the Prize for the Best Book in the History of Philosophy Published in 2013 awarded by the Board of the Journal of the History of Philosophy. He was elected Fellow to the American Academy of Jewish Research and appointed Trustee at the Maimonides Center for Jewish Studies. He was the Russell Berrie Professor at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas's John Paul II Center. He received a conference support grant from UChicago's Center in Beijing for "Hermeneutical Strategies in Response to Crisis and the Disappearance of a Tradition in Jewish and Chinese Thought." He also received a publication subvention from James and Manfred Lehmann Foundation for translating his recent work into Hebrew.