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David Kolb (born 1939[1]) is an American philosopher, author and the Charles A. Dana Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Bates College in Maine.

Kolb grew up in the suburbs of New York City. He received a B.A. (1963) and M.A. (1965) from Fordham University. He later received a M.Phil (1970) and Ph.D (1972) from Yale University. Kolb has taught at Fordham University, the University of Chicago, and Nanzan University in Japan before before moving to Bates in 1977 and teaching there until 2005, when he took emeritus status. He now lives in Eugene, Oregon.

Kolb's Dissertation was titled "Conceptual Pluralism and Rationality." Most of his writing deals with "what it means to live with historical connections and traditions at a time when we can no longer be totally defined by that history." His work explores this theme through the lens of german philosophy, postmodernism, architecture, and urbanism.

Hypertext
Kolb has also written extensively on hypertext and its use as a platform for scholarly writing. His best known work in this area, Socrates in the Labyrinth: Hypertext, Argument, Philosophy, is the first work of electronic literature to use hypertext to develop philosophical arguments and critiques. Socrates in the Labyrinth" was written using the StorySpace hypertext authoring software and published by Eastgate Systems in 1994.

One of the central problems addressed in Socrates in the Labyrinth is whether hypertext is a viable platform for a philosophical work. (http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/1.1/reviews/carbone/onlabyrinths.html). "Is a nonlinear philosophical work possible? Or is philosophy so committed to the line that hypertext can be useful as an expository device or an informational tool, but can never offer philosophy a brave world of new textual strategies?" Kolb approaches this

Kolb has written many articles and published several books including:
 * The Critique of Pure Modernity: Hegel, Heidegger, and After, 1987
 * Postmodern Sophistications: Philosophy, Architecture, and Tradition, 1990
 * New Perspectives on Hegel's Philosophy of Religion, 1992
 * Socrates in the Labyrinth: Hypertext, Argument, Philosophy, 1994
 * Sprawling Places, 2008