John M. Cooper (philosopher)
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. |
| Education | |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| Institutions | Princeton University, University of Pittsburgh |
| Main interests | Ancient philosophy, ethics |
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 | edit source]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
[edit | edit source]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 | edit source]- 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
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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