Lenn E. Goodman

Lenn Evan Goodman (born March 21, 1944 ) is a philosopher and historian of philosophy with research interests in Islamic and Jewish philosophy, metaphysics and ethics. Goodman has taught at Vanderbilt University since 1994 .

Life

Goodman received his BA in Philosophy and Middle Eastern Languages ​​and Literatures from Harvard in 1965, then received a Phi Beta Kappa College Fellowship and an NDEA Fellowship / Woodrow Wilson Fellowship. From 1965 to 1968 he was a Marshall Scholar at Corpus Christi College, Oxford University, where he received his doctorate in 1968 with Richard Walzer , S. Stern, and A. Hourani on The Philosophical Achievement of al-Ghazali . He then taught philosophy and Middle Eastern languages ​​and literatures as visiting assistant professor at UCLA, then 1969–74 as assistant professor and 1974–81 as associate professor of philosophy, and 1993–94 as a fellow of the Arts and Humanities Faculty at the University of Hawaii. After various research grants and residencies, Goodman has been teaching philosophy at Vanderbilt University as Andrew W. Mellon Professor since 1994.

Goodman's first wife, Madeleine Joyce Goodman, was a geneticist and academic vice president of the University of Hawaii and the first dean of the Arts and Science Faculty at Vanderbilt University. Lenn Evan and Madeleine Joyce have two daughters, Allegra Goodman, a writer, and Paula Fraenkel, who works in oncology. Madeleine Joyce died in 1996. Goodman is married to Roberta Walter Goodman, a health and finance professional.

Goodman's work has won several awards, including a. through the Baumgardt Memorial Award from the American Philosophical Association and the Gratz Centennial Prize. Goodman was Associate Editor of Philosophy East and West, Medieval Philosophy and Theology, Asian Philosophy, and the History of Philosophy Quarterly.

Works (selection)

• Translated: Ibn Tufayl : Hayy Ibn Yaqzan (Twayne, 1976).
• Translated from: Maimonides : The Philosophical Writings of Maimonides (Viking, 1976)
• Translated: The Case of the Animals Before the King of the Jinn (Twayne, 1978)
• Translated from: Saadia Gaon : Saadiah's Book of Theodicy (Yale University Press, 1988)

• On Justice (Yale University Press, 1991),
• (Ed.): Neoplatonism and Jewish Thought, SUNY Press 1992.
• Avicenna, Routledge 1992, 2nd A. 2005
• God of Abraham (Oxford University Press, 1996)
• Judaism, Human Rights and Human Values ​​(Oxford University Press, 1998)
• Jewish and Islamic Philosophy: Crosspollinations in the Classic Age (Edinburgh University Press and Rutgers University Press, 1999)
• In Defense of Truth: A Pluralistic Approach (Humanity Press, 2001)
• (Ed. With Heidi Ravven): Jewish Themes in Spinoza's Philosophy, SUNY Press 2002
• Islamic Humanism (Oxford University Press, 2003).
• (Ed. With Robert Talisse): Aristotle's Politics Today, SUNY Press 2007
• Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself (Oxford University Press, 2008)
• (Ed. With Idit Dobbs-Weinstein and James A. Grady): Maimonides and His Heritage, SUNY Press 2009
• (in preparation) Humanism in Islam, Oxford University Press 2009
• (in preparation) God and Evolution, Routledge Publishing 2009.

Web links

• Lenn. E. Goodman on the Vanderbilt University website