John M. Cooper (philosopher)
John M. Cooper | |
|---|---|
| Born | John Madison Cooper November 29, 1939 Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Died | August 8, 2022 (aged 82) Princeton, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Awards | Marshall Scholarship |
| Education | |
| Education | Harvard University Corpus Christi College, Oxford |
| G. E. L. Owen | |
Other advisor | Gilbert Ryle |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| Analytic philosophy | |
| Institutions | University of Pittsburgh Princeton University |
Notable students | Michael N. Forster |
Main interests | Ancient philosophy, ethics |
Notable ideas | Analytic philosophy |
John Madison Cooper (November 29, 1939 – August 8, 2022)[1] was an American philosopher who was the Emeritus Henry Putnam University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University and an expert on ancient philosophy.
Education and career
[edit]Cooper graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. in philosophy in 1961, from Corpus Christi College, Oxford with a B.Phil. in philosophy in 1963, and from Harvard with a Ph.D. in philosophy in 1966. He taught at Harvard until 1971, when he accepted a tenured position in philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, where he taught until he moved to Princeton in 1981. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2001.[2]
In 2011, Cooper delivered the John Locke Lectures at Oxford University,[3] and in 2012, he delivered the Tanner Lectures on Human Values at Stanford University.[4]
Philosophical work
[edit]He is the editor of the Hackett edition of the complete works of Plato, as well as author of Pursuits of Wisdom: Six Ways of Life in Ancient Philosophy from Socrates to Plotinus and a number of other books on ancient Greek philosophy.[5]
Selected books
[edit]- Reason and Human Good in Aristotle (Hackett, 1975)
- Reason and Emotion (1999)
- Knowledge, Nature, and the Good (2004)
- Pursuits of Wisdom: Six Ways of Life in Ancient Philosophy from Socrates to Plotinus (2012)
References
[edit]- ↑ "John Madison Cooper". Archived from the original on 2022-10-05. Retrieved 2022-08-27.
- ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2015-08-05.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ↑ "Past Lectures - Faculty of Philosophy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-20. Retrieved 2014-12-19.
- ↑ Zaw, Catherine (27 January 2012). "John Cooper delivers 2012 Tanner Lecture". The Stanford Daily. Retrieved 5 April 2014.
- ↑ WorldCat
External links
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- 1939 births
- 2022 deaths
- 21st-century American philosophers
- Princeton University faculty
- American scholars of ancient Greek philosophy
- Plato scholars
- Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Harvard College alumni
- Presidents of the American Philosophical Association
- Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
- Writers from Memphis, Tennessee