Professor Emeritus Frederick Irving Kersten received his Ph.D. in 1964 from the Graduate Faculty for Political and Social Science, The New School for Social Research, New York City and held professorships of philosophy at the University of Montana (1962–1969) and the University of Wisconsin at Green Bay (1969–1988); he went on to be the Frankenthal Professor of Philosophy since 1988 at the University of Wisconsin at Green Bay where he was awarded the title “emeritus” in 1995.