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To learn more about Professor Goodman , read his interview: Philosophy, Creativity, and Tradition

Lenn E. Goodman

Professor of Philosophy
Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities

Contact Information

Email: lenn.e.goodman@vanderbilt.edu
Office: 117 Furman Hall
Phone: (615) 343-3158
Fax: (615) 343-7259

Degrees

D.Phil. Oxford University

Research Area

His philosophical interests center on metaphysics and ethics, and he has paid special attention over the years to Islamic and Jewish philosophical thought and their creative interactions. Goodman was a winner of the American Philosophical Association Baumgardt Memorial Prize and was a rare Humanities Recipient of Vanderbilt University's top research award, the Earl Sutherland prize.

Publications

His books include:

and translations with commentary of such Arabic classics as:

 

He is editor of:

 

He has written philosophical essays on most of the major figures of Islamic and Jewish philosophy and on a variety of topics in political philosophy, biophilosophy, and the theory of knowledge and culture. He serves on the editorial boards of History of Philosophy Quarterly and Medieval Philosophy and Theology. He is an associate editor of Asian Philosophy. He has served as Vice President and Program Chair of the Institute for Islamic/Judaic Studies. He has also served as program chair for the APA panels of the Academy for Jewish Philosophy. He was Jewish Philosophy subject editor of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy and is a fellow of the Academy for Jewish Philosophy.

Professor Goodman has also contributed to the Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, the Oxford Companion to Philosophy, the Blackwell's Companion to the Philosophy of Religion, the Companion Encyclopedia of Asian Philosophy, as well as other works of reference. In 2008 Oxford University Press published Goodman's Gifford lectures under the title Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself.

Multimedia

Maimonides Mini-Course (mp3)
A Conversation on Creation and Evolution with Philip Kitcher at the Jewish Theological Seminary 11/17/09 (video)