Charles Margrave Taylor is a Canadian philosopher from Montreal,Quebec,and professor emeritus at McGill University best known for his contributions to political philosophy,the philosophy of social science,the history of philosophy,and intellectual history. His work has earned him the Kyoto Prize,the Templeton Prize,the Berggruen Prize for Philosophy,and the John W. Kluge Prize.
Aristotelianism is a philosophical tradition inspired by the work of Aristotle,usually characterized by deductive logic and an analytic inductive method in the study of natural philosophy and metaphysics. It covers the treatment of the social sciences under a system of natural law. It answers why-questions by a scheme of four causes,including purpose or teleology,and emphasizes virtue ethics. Aristotle and his school wrote tractates on physics,biology,metaphysics,logic,ethics,aesthetics,poetry,theatre,music,rhetoric,psychology,linguistics,economics,politics,and government. Any school of thought that takes one of Aristotle's distinctive positions as its starting point can be considered "Aristotelian" in the widest sense. This means that different Aristotelian theories may not have much in common as far as their actual content is concerned besides their shared reference to Aristotle.
Martha Craven Nussbaum is an American philosopher and the current Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago,where she is jointly appointed in the law school and the philosophy department. She has a particular interest in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy,political philosophy,existentialism,feminism,and ethics,including animal rights. She also holds associate appointments in classics,divinity,and political science,is a member of the Committee on Southern Asian Studies,and a board member of the Human Rights Program. She previously taught at Harvard and Brown.
Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre is a Scottish-American philosopher who has contributed to moral and political philosophy as well as history of philosophy and theology. MacIntyre's After Virtue (1981) is one of the most important works of Anglophone moral and political philosophy in the 20th century. He is senior research fellow at the Centre for Contemporary Aristotelian Studies in Ethics and Politics (CASEP) at London Metropolitan University,Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame,and permanent senior distinguished research fellow at the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture. During his lengthy academic career,he also taught at Brandeis University,Duke University,Vanderbilt University,and Boston University.
Nicholas Paul Wolterstorff is an American philosopher and theologian. He is currently Noah Porter Professor Emeritus Philosophical Theology at Yale University. A prolific writer with wide-ranging philosophical and theological interests,he has written books on aesthetics,epistemology,political philosophy,philosophy of religion,metaphysics,and philosophy of education. In Faith and Rationality, Wolterstorff,Alvin Plantinga,and William Alston developed and expanded upon a view of religious epistemology that has come to be known as Reformed epistemology. He also helped to establish the journal Faith and Philosophy and the Society of Christian Philosophers.
After Virtue:A Study in Moral Theory is a book on moral philosophy by the philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre. MacIntyre provides a bleak view of the state of modern moral discourse,regarding it as failing to be rational,and failing to admit to being irrational. He claims that older forms of moral discourse were in better shape,particularly singling out Aristotle's moral philosophy as an exemplar. After Virtue is among the most important texts in the recent revival of virtue ethics.
Susan Moller Okin was a liberal feminist political philosopher and author.
Alasdair John Milbank is an English Anglo-Catholic theologian and is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Nottingham,where he is President of the Centre of Theology and Philosophy. Milbank previously taught at the University of Virginia and before that at the University of Cambridge and the University of Lancaster. He is also chairman of the trustees of the think tank ResPublica.
James R. Otteson is an American philosopher and political economist. He is the John T. Ryan Jr. Professor of Business Ethics at the University of Notre Dame. Formerly,he was the Thomas W. Smith Presidential Chair in Business Ethics,Professor of Economics,and executive director of the Eudaimonia Institute at Wake Forest University. He is also a Senior Scholar at The Fund for American Studies in Washington,D.C.,a Research Professor in the Center for the Philosophy of Freedom and in the Philosophy Department at the University of Arizona,a Visitor of Ralston College,a Research Fellow for the Independent Institute in California,a director of Ethics and Economics Education of New England,and a Senior Scholar at the Fraser Institute. He has taught previously at Yeshiva University,New York University,Georgetown University,and the University of Alabama.
Although men have generally dominated philosophical discourse,women have been philosophers throughout the history of the discipline. Ancient examples include Maitreyi,Gargi Vachaknavi,Hipparchia of Maroneia and Arete of Cyrene. Some women philosophers were accepted during the medieval and modern eras,but none became part of the Western canon until the 20th and 21st century,when some sources indicate that Susanne Langer,G.E.M. Anscombe,Hannah Arendt and Simone de Beauvoir entered the canon.
Eliot Deutsch was a philosopher,teacher,and writer. He made important contributions to the understanding and appreciation of Eastern philosophies in the West through his many works on comparative philosophy and aesthetics. He was a Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Hawaii.
Fred Dycus Miller Jr. is an American philosopher who specializes in Aristotelian philosophy,with additional interests in political philosophy,business ethics,metaphysics,and philosophy in science fiction. He is a professor emeritus at Bowling Green State University.
Douglas B. Rasmussen is professor of philosophy at St. John's University,where he has taught since 1981.
Alice Crary is an American philosopher who currently holds the positions of University Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Faculty,The New School for Social Research in New York City and Visiting Fellow at Regent's Park College,University of Oxford,U.K..
Jeffrey Paul Bishop is a philosopher,bioethicist,author and the Tenet Endowed Chair of Health Care Ethics at Saint Louis University. The director of the Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics,he is most widely recognized and cited for work in medical ethics as relating to death and dying in addition to contributions in the field of medical humanities. Bishop is a physician,holds a Doctorate of Philosophy from the University of Dallas and serves on the editorial boards of both the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy and the Journal of Christian Bioethics for Oxford University Press.
Susan James is a British professor of philosophy at Birkbeck College London. She has previously taught at the University of Connecticut and the University of Cambridge. She is well known for her work on the history of seventeenth and eighteenth century philosophy.
Richard L. Velkley is an American philosopher and Celia Scott Weatherhead Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Tulane University. Velkley is known for his expertise on Kant,Rousseau,and post-Kantian philosophy. He is a former associate editor of The Review of Metaphysics (1997–2006) and a former president of the Metaphysical Society of America (2017–18).
List of works by or about Martha Nussbaum,American philosopher.
Sandrine Berges is a French philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at Bilkent University. She is known for her works on feminist philosophy,ethics and political philosophy.
Eileen Margaret Hunt Botting is an American political theorist and professor of political science. She works on political thought from the 17th century to the present. She is a professor at the University of Notre Dame and has published four solo-authored books and edited another five books. In 2021,she returned to publishing with the author name,Eileen M. Hunt,with the essay "Dracula's Daughter:the rediscovery of a love poem for George Orwell" in The TLS.
