John M. Cooper (philosopher)
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.
John M.Cooper | |
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| Born | November 29, 1939 Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Died | August 8, 2022 (aged 82) Princeton, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| Institutions | Princeton University, University of Pittsburgh |
Main interests | Ancient philosophy, ethics |
Education and career
Cooper earned his Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1967 and taught there 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
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
- 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)
Honors
References
- John Madison Cooper
- "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2015-08-05.
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- Zaw, Catherine (27 January 2012). "John Cooper delivers 2012 Tanner Lecture". The Stanford Daily. Retrieved 5 April 2014.
- WorldCat