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Goodman Professor of Philosophy Professor of Religious Studies A.B. (Harvard 1965) D.Phil. (Oxford 1968) lgoodman@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu Curriculum Vitae |
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Goodman's philosophical interests center on metaphysics and ethics,
and he has paid special attention over they years to Islamic and Jewish
philosophical thought and their creative interactions. His books include:
Jewish and Islamic Philosophy: Crosspollinations in the Classic Age
(Edinburgh Univiersity Press and Rutgers University Press, 1999),
Judaism, Human Rights and Human Values (Oxford University Press, 1998),
God of Abraham (Oxford University Press, 1996--winner of the Gratz
Centennial Prize, 1997), Avicenna (Routledge, 1992), On Justice (Yale
University Press, 1991), and translations with commentary of such
Arabic classics as: Saadiah's Book of Theodicy (commentary on the
book of Job, Yale University Press, 1988), The Case of the Animals
Before the King of the Jinn (Twayne, 1978), The Philosophical Writings
of Maimonides (Viking, 1976), and Ibn Tufayl's Hayy Ibn Yaqzan (Twayne,
1976). 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 Philosophy East and West and Asian Philosophy, and has served on the board of History of Philosophy Quarterly and as Vice President and Program Chair of the Institute for Islamic/Judaic Studies. He was Jewish Philosophy subject editor of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, is a fellow of the Academy for Jewish Philosophy, and he edits the Brown Judaic Studies series Medieval Approaches to Judaism. 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. His most recently completed book is In Defense of Truth: A Pluralist Approach, to be published by Humanity Press. Professor Goodman is currently hard at work on two more works: Humanism in Islam for Oxford University Press, and God and Evolution for Routledge Publishing.
EDUCATION:
Judaism, Human Rights and Human Values. Oxford University Press, 1998, 202 pp. God of Abraham. Oxford University Press, 1996, 364 pp. (Gratz Prize, Philadelphia, 1997). Avicenna. Routledge, 1992, 240 pp.; Italian ed., L'Universo di Avicenna (Genoa: ecig, 1995). On Justice: An Essay in Jewish Philosophy, Yale University Press, 1991, 288 pp. Saadiah ben Joseph al-Fayyumi's Book of Theodicy, a tenth century Arabic commentary and translation of the book of Job, translated with philosophical introduction and commentary. Yale Judaica Series XXV. Yale University Press, 1988, 481 pp. Monotheism: A Philosophic Inquiry into the Foundations of Natural Theology and Ethics. Totowa, N.J.: Allanheld Osmun, 1981, 119 pp. The Case of the Animals vs Man Before the King of the Jinn, translated from the Ras©∫'il Ikhw©∫n al-Saf©∫' with philosophic introduction and commentary. Twayne Publishers, 1978, 271 pp.; excerpted in the Penguin Anthology, 2000. Rambam: Readings in the Philosophy of Moses Maimonides, translated with introduction and commentary. New York: Viking, 1976, 444 pp.; paperback, Schocken, 1977. Reissued, 1986. Ibn Tufayl's Hayy Ibn Yaqz©∫n, translated with introduction and commentary. Twayne Publishers, 1972, 246 pp.; paperback, 1984, reprinted, 1990, etc.; special student edition Cairo: American University, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1999. Sex Differences in the Human Life Cycle. Los Angeles: Gee Tee Bee, 7th ed., 1987, 430 pp. The Sexes in the Human Population.* Los Angeles: Gee Tee Bee, 3rd ed., 1984, 203 pp.
Neoplatonism and Jewish Thought (Albany: suny Press, 1992) 454 pp. Brown Judaic Studies - Medieval Approaches to Judaism volume 1. Menachem Kellner, Maimonides on Human Perfection (1990)
100 pp. Violence and Defense, the Jewish Experience, with G. Wise and Salo W. Baron, Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1977, 362 pp.
ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS: Ibn S©∫n©∫ Translation: "On the Soul," Philosophical Forum 1 (1969) 555-62. "Ghaz©∫l©∫'s Argument from Creation," International Journal of Middle East Studies 2 (1971) 67-85, 168-88. "The Epicurean Ethic of Muammad Ibn Zakariy©∫' ar-R©∫z©∫," Studia Islamica 34 (1971) 5-26. "Private Right and the Limits of Law," Philosophy East and West 31 (1971) 380-93. "Ibn Khald©∫n and Thucydides," Journal of the American Oriental Society 92 (1972) 250-70. "Al-F©∫r©∫b©∫'s Modalities," (in Hebrew with English summary) Iyyun 23 (1972) 100-12. "R©∫z©∫'s Psychology," Philosophical Forum 4 (1972) 26-48. "Raz©∫'s Myth of the Fall of the Soul: Its Function in His Philosophy," Essays on Islamic Philosophy and Science, ed., George Hourani (Albany: SUNY Press, 1975) 25-40. "Equality and Justice, the Lockean and the Judaic Views," Judaism 25 (1976) 357-362. "Saadya Gaon on the Human Condition," Jewish Quarterly Review N.S. 67 (1976) 23-29. "Did Ghaz©∫l©∫ Deny Causality?" Studia Islamica 47 (1978) 83-120. "Maimonides' Philosophy of Law," Jewish Law Annual 1 (1978) 72-107. "An Historic Misunderstanding of the Shema," Conservative Judaism 32 (1979) 36-49. "Saadiah's Ethical Pluralism," Journal of the American Oriental Society 100 (1980) 407-19. "Maimonides and Leibniz," Journal of Jewish Studies 31 (1980) 214-25. "Leibniz Translation: `Observations on Rabbi Moses Maimonides' Book Entitled The Teacher of the Perplexed,'" Journal of Jewish Studies 31 (1980) 225-36. "Unjust Enrichment and Regulation: Modern Application for One of the Seminal Categories of Talmudic Law," Jewish Law Annual 3 (1980) 82-92. "Is there a Feminist Biology?"* International Journal of Women's Studies 4 (1981) 393-413. "Tay-Sachs Screening: The Overselling of Genetic Anxiety,"* Hastings Center Reports, October, 1982, 20-27; Discussion, June, 1983, 44-45. "Bahy©∫ on the Antinomy of Free Will and Predestination," Journal of the History of Ideas 44 (1983) 115-30. "Creation and Evolution: Another Round in an Ancient Struggle," Zygon 18 (1983) 3-43. "Skepticism," Review of Metaphysics 36 (1983) 819-48. "The Greek Impact on Arabic Literature," The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature... to the End of the Umayyad Period, Cambridge University Press, 1984, 460-82. "Medieval Philosophy," New Trends in Philosophy, ed., A. Kasher (in Hebrew). Tel Aviv: Yahdav, 1985, vol. 2, pp. 93-165. "Sexual Racism in Population Policy,"* in Women in Asia and the Pacific, Honolulu, 1985, 83-101. "Why Machines Cannot do Science," Creativity and Science, ed., D. DeLuca, Honolulu: hcte, 1986, 269-82. "Prevention,"* Hastings Center Reports, March, 1986, 26-38; abridged in The Health Crisis. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, Opposing Viewpoints Series 1989; and in Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Health and Society. San Diego: Dushkin Publishing Group, 1993. "The Biblical Laws of Diet and Sex," Jewish Law Association Studies 2 (1986) 17-57. "Matter and Form as Attributes of God in Maimonides' Philosophy," in A Straight Path: Studies in Honor of Arthur Hyman. Catholic University of America Press, 1987, 86-97. "Medicalization and its Discontents,"* Social Science and Medicine 25 (1987) 733-40. "Ibn B©∫jjah," Encyclopedia of Religion, New York: Macmillan, 1987. "Determinism and Freedom in Spinoza, Maimonides and Aristotle," Responsibility, Character and the Emotions, F. Schoeman, ed., Cambridge University Press, 1987, 107-64. "Ordinary and Extraordinary Language in Medieval Jewish and Islamic Philosophy," Manuscrito 11 (1988) 57-83. "Hamadh©∫n©∫, Schadenfreude and Salvation through Sin," Journal of Arabic Literature 19 (1988) 27-39. "Context," Philosophy East and West 38 (1988) 307-23. "`Particularly Amongst the Sunburnt Nations'__The Persistence of Sexual Stereotypes of Race in Bio-Science,"* International Journal of Group Tensions 19 (1989) 221-43, 365-84. "Maimonides' Responses to Saadya Gaon's Theodicy and their Islamic Backgrounds," in W. M. Brinner and S. D. Ricks, eds., Studies in Islamic and Judaic Traditions II, Brown Judaic Studies 178 (1989) 3-22. "The Rational and Irrational in Jewish and Islamic Philosophy," in Rationality in Question: On Eastern and Western Views of Rationality, S. Biderman and B. Scharfstein, eds., Brill, 1989, 93-118. "Three Meanings of the Idea of Creation," in God and Creation, ed., David Burrell and Bernard McGinn, Notre Dame University Press, 1990, 85-113. "The Translation of Greek Materials into Arabic," Cambridge History of Arabic Literature: Religion, Learning and Science in the `Abbasid Period, Cambridge University Press, 1990, 477-97. "Saadiah Gaon's Interpretive Technique in Translating the Book of Job," in D. M. Goldenberg, ed., Translation of Scripture, Jewish Quarterly Review supplement (1990) 47-76. "Six Dogmas of Relativism," in Cultural Relativism and Philosophy, ed., M. Dascal. Brill, 1991, 77-102; Spanish edition, Relativismo cultural y filosof¡a: Perspectivas norteamericanas y latinoamericanas (Universidad Nacional Aut¢noma de M‚xico, 1993) 109-43. "Three Enduring Achievements of Islamic Philosophy," Culture and Modernity: East-West Philosophic Perspectives, E. Deutsch, ed., University of Hawaii Press, 1991, 401-29. "Time, Creation, and the Mirror of Narcissus," Philosophy East and West 42 (1992) 69-112. Reprinted in D. Cohn-Sherbok, ed., Divine Intervention and Miracles, London: Mellen, 1994. "Maimonidean Naturalism," Neoplatonism and Jewish Thought, SUNY Press (1992) 139-72; another version in R. Cohen and H. Levine, eds., Maimonides and the Sciences (Lancaster, UK: Kluwer, 2000) 57-85. "Time in Islam," Asian Philosophy 2 (1992) 3-19; another version in A. N. Balslev and J. N. Mohanty, Religion and Time. Brill, 1993, 138-62. "The Trouble with Phenomenalism," American Philosophical Quarterly 29 (1992) 237-52. "The Individual and the Community in the Normative Traditions of Judaism," in Autonomy and Judaism, ed., Daniel Frank (SUNY Press, 1992) 69-119; reprinted in Religious Diversity and Human Rights, ed. Irene Bloom, J. P. Martin and W. L. Proudfoot, Columbia University Press, 1997, 15-53. "Jewish and Islamic Philosophies of Language," in Sprachphilosophie, ed. K. Lorenz et al., Berlin: DeGruyter, 1993, vol. 1, pp. 34-55. "Abortion and the Emergence of Human Life: Maimonides and the Judaic View," Bits of Honey: Essays for Samson Levey, S. Chyet and D. Ellenson, eds., Scholars Press, 1993, 163-90. "The Sacred and the Secular: Rival Themes in Arabic Literature," in M. Mir, ed., The Literary Heritage of Islam: Studies in Honor of James Bellamy, Darwin Press, 1993, 287-330. "Rational Law / Ritual Law," in D. Frank, ed., A People Apart: Chosenness and Ritual in Jewish Philosophical Thought, SUNY Press, 1993, 109-200. "Mythic Discourse," Myths and Fictions, B. Scharfstein and S. Biderman, eds., Brill, 1993, 51-112. "Leibniz and Futurity," Leibniz and Adam, M. Dascal and E. Yakira, eds., Tel Aviv: University Publishing, 1993, 301-24. "R©∫z©∫," Encyclopedia of Islam, vol. 7, pp. 474-77. "Neoplatonism and Jewish Philosophy," Journal of Neoplatonic Studies 3 (1994) 49-91. Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, ed. Robert Audi: Razi, Avicenna, Saadiah, Miskawayh, Ibn Daud, Averroes, and Maimonides - Cambridge University Press, 1995. (7 items). "Toward a Jewish Philosophy of Justice," Commandment and Community, Daniel Frank, ed. SUNY Press, 1995, 3-53. Oxford Companion to Philosophy, ed. Ted Honderich: Philo, al-Farabi, Saadiah, Ibn Gabirol, Halevi, Maimonides, Crescas, Albo, Mendelssohn, Cohen, Rosenzweig, Buber, Kabbalah, I and Thou (Oxford University Press, 1995). "Jewish Philosophy," Oxford Companion to Philosophy, Oxford University Press, 1995. 429-31. "Prescriptivity," Jewish Philosophy and Jewish Thought 5 (1996) 147-75. "Crosspollinations: Philosophically Fruitful Exchanges between Jewish and Islamic Thought," Medieval Encounters 3 (1996) 323-57. "Ibn Masarrah," History of Islamic Philosophy, ed. S. H. Nasr and O. Leaman (London: Routledge, 1996) 277-93. "Ibn B©∫jjah," History of Islamic Philosophy, ed. Nasr and Leaman, 1996, 294-312. "Ibn Tufayl," History of Islamic Philosophy, ed. Nasr and Leaman, 1996, 313-29. "Saadiah Gaon," History of Islamic Philosophy, ed. Nasr and Leaman, 1996, 696-711. "R©∫z©∫," History of Islamic Philosophy, ed. Nasr and Leaman, 1996, 198-215. "Humanism and Islamic Ethics: The Curious Case of Miskawayh," in Brian Carr, ed., Morals and Society in Asian Philosophy, Curzon, 1996, 1-22. "Friendship in Aristotle, Miskawayh, and al-Ghaz©∫l©∫," in O. Leaman, ed., Friendship East and West: Philosophical Perspectives, Curzon, 1996, 164-190. "Judaism," Blackwells Companion to Religious Philosophy, Philip Quinn and Charles Taliaferro, eds., Oxford University Press, 1997, 429-31. "Knowledge and Reality in Islamic Philosophy," Companion Encyclopedia of Asian Philosophy, Routledge, 1997, 965-999. "Morals and Society in Islamic Philosophy," Companion Encyclopedia of Asian Philosophy, Routledge, 1997, 1000-1024. "Judah Halevi," History of Jewish Philosophy, Daniel Frank and Oliver Leaman, eds., Routledge, 1997, 188-227. "Political Philosophy," in O. Leaman, ed., The Future of Philosophy: Towards the Twenty First Century, Routledge, 1998, 62-76. "Moses Maimonides," Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (London & New York: Routledge, 1998) vol 6, pp. 39-49. "Saadiah Gaon al-Fayyumi," Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 1998, vol. 8, pp. 435-40. "Bahya Ibn Paquda," Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 1998, vol. 4, pp. 33-36. "Judah Halevi," Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 1998, vol. 4, pp. 207-13. "Moral, Metaphysical and Natural Justice," (in Portuguese) Analise Social (Lisbon) 4th series, vol. 32 (1998) 263-84. "The Diodorean Modalities and the Master Argument," From Puzzles to Principles? - Essays on Aristotle's Dialectic, Mui Sim, ed., Lexington Books, 1999, 15-37. "On Liberty Reconsidered," On Liberty: Jewish Philosophical Perspectives, Daniel Frank, ed., Curzon, 1999, 3-62. ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS IN PRESS: "Neoplatonism: Unity and Plurality in the Arts," in Neoplatonism and Contemporary Thought. "Maimonides and the Philosophers of Islam: The Problem of Theophany," in John Hayes, ed., Studies in Honor of William Brinner "Philosophy in the Majlis," The Majlis Book: Interreligious Encounters in Medieval Islam, Hava Lazarus-Yafeh, Mark Cohen, Sidney Griffith, Sasson Somekh, eds., 77-100. "Respect for Nature in the Jewish Tradition," (Harvard Conference Volume). "What is a Soul?" (Neuroscience and the Human Spirit, Ethics and Public Policy Center volume). "God and the Law" (Toronto Conference volume).
W. Montgomery Watt, Islamic Political Thought, the Basic Concepts, International Journal of Middle East Studies l (1970) 85-88. F. Peters, Aristotle and the Arabs, Philosophy East and West 20 (1970) 92-93. The Way Things Are: The De Rerum Natura of Titus Lucretius Carus, translated by Rolfe Humphries. Journal of the History of Philosophy 8 (1970) 338-40. Al-F©∫r©∫b©∫'s Book of Letters Arabic Text, ed. Muhsin Mahdi. Philosophy East and West 21 (1971) 220-22. Henri Corbin, Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn Arabi, review article in International Journal of Middle East Studies 2 (1971) 278-81. George Hourani, Islamic Rationalism: The Ethics of `Abd al-Jabb©∫r, The Middle East Journal 25 (1971) 543-45. J.-J. Waardenburg, Islam dans le Miroir de l'Occident, Middle Eastern Studies 8 (1972) 257-59. The Fihrist of al-Nadim, tr. Bayard Dodge, Journal of the History of Philosophy 10 (1972) 478-79. Ibn Kamm©∫na's Examination of the Three Faiths, Philosophy East and West 22 (1972) 487-88. Alexander Altmann, Studies in Religious Philosophy and Mysticism, review article in International Journal of Middle East Studies 4 (1973) 496-502. Franz Rosenthal, The Herb: Hashish vs Medieval Muslim Society, Middle East Journal 28 (1974) 86-87. Porphyry, Isagoge, tr. E. Warren, Journal of the History of Philosophy 17 (1979) 82-85. Majid Fakhry, The History of Islamic Philosophy, Middle Eastern Studies 15 (1979) 120-23. Harry Wolfson, Repercussions of the Kal©∫m in Jewish Philosophy, Journal of Jewish Studies, 1980. Marthe Robert, From Oedipus to Moses: Freud's Jewish Identity, Journal of Jewish Studies, 1980. S. H. Nasr, Sadr al-Din Shirazi and his Transcendent Theosophy, Journal of Near Eastern Studies 41 (1980) 156-57. Encyclopedia of Bioethics, review article, Philosophy East and West 31 (1981) 225-38. Bernard Rosensweig, Ashkenazic Jewry in Transition, Journal of the American Academy of Religion (1980) 292-93. R. G. Frey, Interests and Rights: The Case Against Animals, Philosophia 14 (1984) 249-50. F. W. Zimmermann, Al-Farabi's Commentary and Short Treatise on Aristotle's De Interpretatione, International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 1984. Levi ben Gershom, The Wars of the Lord, tr. Seymour Feldman, Choice, July, 1985. Albert Hourani, Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age (1798-1939) 2nd edition, The International History Review, 8 (1986) 107-11. B. Kogan, Averroes and the Metaphysics of Causation, Choice, 1986. O. Leaman, An Introduction to Medieval Islamic Philosophy, Choice, May, 1986. Edward Booth, Aristotle's Aporetic Ontology, feature review article, Philosophy East and West 37 (1987) 191-201. Eric Ormsby, Theodicy in Islamic Thought: The Dispute over Al-Ghazali's `Best of all Possible Worlds', Journal of the History of Philosophy 25 (1987) 589-91. Ephraim Urbach, The Sages, Philsophy East and West, 1989. Narboni on Maimonides' Guide, Jewish Quarterly Review 81 (1990)
161-65. Richard Popkin, Isaac La Peyr·re (1596-1676), Journal of the History of Philosophy 29 (1991) 131-35. A. C. Papanicolaou and P. Gunter, eds., Bergson and Modern Thought,
Process Studies 21 (1992) 260-68. EDITORIAL REVIEW: Editorial Boards: Evaluation of submissions to: Evaluation of book MSS and editorial consulting for Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, University of Chicago Press, suny Press, Routledge, Edinburgh, et al. Evaluation of grant proposals for N.E.H. and the Israel Science Foundation, and of academic dossiers for various universities.
Vanderbilt University Research Council, to attend the XXXIII Congress of the International Academy of Law and Mental Health, Paris and to present a paper at the Congr‚s Pelicier, June-July, 1998. Travel Grant from the University of Lisbon to present a paper at the Arr bida conference on "Liberalism, Modernity and their Critics," Lisbon, October 6-9, 1997. Provost's initiative on diversity, for work on original translations of Arabic philosophical texts, to be published by Routledge and for my course on Comparative Medieval Philosophy, 1996-97. Travel Grant to attend the Symposium on Saadiah Gaon, Institute for Advanced Studies, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, May, 1995. Travel Grant to attend Forum on Liberty and Fallibility, Dallas, April, 1995. Hawaii Committee for the Humanities, Forum with Tom Regan and animal laboratory researchers, animal rights advocates, et al. on "Animal Rights," May 3, 1991. Matchette Grant for International Conference on Neoplatonism and Jewish Thought, 1986-7. University Faculty Fellowship for Research, Spring, 1985. NEH Institute on Comparative Philosophy, University of Hawaii, Summer, 1984. Faculty specialist on Islamic philosophy. NEH Translation Grant for Saadiah Gaon's Book of Theodicy. NEH Summer Grant (Saadiah Gaon's Theory of Justice and the Book of Job), 1982. ACLS Grant in Aid for work on Arabic Thought (Saadiah and Hamadh©∫n), 1982 Wise Travel Grant, Seminar on Violence and Defense in Jewish Hitory and Contemporary Life, Tel Aviv University, August, 1974. University of Hawaii Research Council Grants, various years. University Travel Grant for Library purchases in Europe and Middle East. Asian Studies Travel Grant, for 28th International Congress of
Orientalists, Canberra, 1971. PAPERS: "Time and Space in R©∫z©∫'s Cosmogony," American Oriental Society, Palo Alto, April 4, 1970. "Creation and Spontaneity in R©∫z©∫'s Metaphysics," American Oriental Society, Baltimore, April 6, 1970. "Philosophical Originality in the Thought of al-R©∫z©∫," Middle Eastern Studies Association, Columbus, November 6, 1970. "R©∫z©∫'s Epicurean Ethic," International Congress of Orientalists, Canberra, January 12, 1971. "Liberalism and the Limits of Law," Law and Morality East and West, Honolulu, March 5, 1971. "The Right of Privacy," Law and Morality East and West, University of Hawaii, March 1971, summary in Philosophy East and West 21 (1971) 519. "R©∫z©∫'s Philosophy," Society for the Study of Islamic Philosophy and Science, April 25, 1971. "Time, Monism, and the Redemption of Experience," East-West Philosophers' Conference, November 4, 1974. Printed in the Proceedings. "Maimonides on Divine Unity," International Conference on Being, New York, April 4, 1976; Philosophy Symposium, Honolulu, 26 February 1976. "Induction," Consortium of Science Humanists, University of Hawaii, April 3, 1980. "The Biblical Laws of Diet and Sex," Jewish Law Association, Jerusalem, August 5, 1980. "Is there a feminist biology?"* American Association for the Advancement of Science, Toronto, January, 1981. "Sexual Racism in Bioscience,"* International Conference on Concepts and Strategies, University of Hawaii/East West Center, November 15, 1982. "Sexual Racism in Population Policy,"* International Conference of Concepts and Strategies, University of Hawaii/East West Center, November 15, 1982. "The Sacred and the Secular in Islam," plenary paper, International Conference on Ideas and Institutions 600-1600, Honolulu, January 5, 1983; East-West Center, January 27, 1983. "God's Silence and God's Speech," Academy for Jewish Philosophy, Philadelphia, July 1982; published in the proceedings. "Themes of Theodicy in the Qur'©∫n and the Book of Job," Institute for Islamic-Judaic Studies, Denver, April 17, 1983. "Hamadh©∫n©∫, Schadenfreude, and Salvation Through Sin," Institute for Islamic-Judaic Studies, Denver, May 19, 1985. "Maimonides' Responses to Saadiah's Theodicy," 850th Anniversary of Maimonides' Birth, Cordoba, September 11, 1985. Published in: Sobre la Vida y Obra de Maimonides, ed. Jesus Pelaez (Cordoba: Ediciones El Almendro, 1991) 279-93. "On the Idea of Creation," Conference on God and Creation, University of Notre Dame and University of Chicago, April 26, 1987. "Spinoza on Human Freedom," Tel Aviv University, January 6, 1988. "The Foetus as a Natural Miracle," Constantinus Colloquy, Exeter University, March 27, 1988, printed in G. Dunstan, ed., The Human Embryo, Exeter University Press, 1990, 79-95. "Sexual Racism in the Biological Sciences," International Organization for the Study of Group Tensions, Princeton University, June 26, 1988. "Islamic Ethics," Philosophy Colloquium, University of Hawaii, December 2, 1988. "The Individual and Community," Academy for Jewish Philosophy, Philadelphia, June 5, 1989. "Three Enduring Achievements of Islamic Philosophy," Plenary paper, East West Philosophers Conference, Summer 1989. "Rational Law / Ritual Law," Academy for Jewish Philosophy, June 9, 1991. "Leibniz and Adam: Does Adam Preclude Futurity for Humanity and Creation?" Conference on Leibniz and Adam, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, January 1, 1992. "Avicenna on Personal Immortality," American Oriental Society, Boston, April 1, 1992. "The Trouble with Phenomenalism," Philosophy, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, May 12, 1992. "Maimonides and the Philosophers of Islam," Conference: Bridging the Worlds of Islam and Judaism - Honoring William Brinner, University of California at Berkeley, March 30, 1993. "Toward a Jewish Philosophy of Justice," Academy for Jewish Philosophy, Evanston, June 7, 1993; Institute of Global Cultural Studies, Binghamton University, October 15, 1994; Jewish Community Center of Nashville, November 6, 1994. "Aristotle, Miskawayh and al-Ghaz©∫l©∫ on Friendship," Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, Western Massachusetts, July 22, 1993; Vanderbilt Philosophy Colloquium, May 9, 1994; New York University Colloquium on Medieval Philosophy, April 7, 1997. "Having a Soul," Academy for Jewish Philosophy, Los Angeles, June 5, 1994. "Prescriptivity," American Academy of Religion, Chicago, November 21, 1994. "Epicurus and Lucretius," Classics Seminar, Vanderbilt University, February 9, 1995. "Unity and Plurality in the Arts," International Society for Neoplatonic Studies conference on Neoplatonism and Contemporary Thought, May 27, 1995 (presented in absentia). "Philosophical Controversies and Philosophical Clarity," International Leibniz Symposium, Institute for Advanced Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, June 1, 1995. "Thoughts on Eschatology," Academy for Jewish Philosophy, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, June 11, 1995. "Diodorus Cronus and the Master Argument," Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, Binghamton, October 22, 1995. "Halevi," Medieval Colloquium, Vanderbilt University, November 15, 1994; Institute for Global Cultural Studies, Binghamton University, October 22, 1995. "What Does Spinoza's Ethics Contribute to Jewish Philosophy," American Philosophical Association panel of the Academy for Jewish Philosophy, Philadelphia, December 28, 1997. "Respect for the Environment," Judaism and Nature, Harvard University, February 23, 1998. "Persons," Plenary Paper, Conference on Law and Mental Health, Paris, June 28, 1998. "What is a Soul?" Templeton Conference on Neuroscience
and the Human Spirit," Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington,
D.C., September 24, 1998. ACADEMIC LECTURES: University of Toronto - Conference on Law and Religion, June 7,
1998. University of Wisconsin School of Law: April 27, 1998. Distinguished Lecture Series: Tennessee State University, March 12, 1998. "Avicenna." Keynote: Conference on Judaism and Modernity - Boston University, October 26, 1997. "Mosaic Liberalism." Arr bida, Lisbon, Portugal - October 7, 1997 "God of Abraham - Response to Three Commentaries by Philosophers," Atlanta, December 28, 1996, American Philosophical Association, Academy for Jewish Philosophy panel: Daniel Frank, Heidi Ravven, Michael Zank; with Hilary Putnam in the chair. Keynote: Appropriating and Reappropriating the Past - History and
Historiography in Islamic and Judaic Traditions, Institute for Islamic
Judaic Studies. Institute for Advanced Study, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Plenary Address: 7th East West Philosophers Conference Keynote: Inaugural Conference of the European Society for Asian
Philosophy. Phi Beta Kappa Lecture: University of Hawaii. Wayne State University International Conference on the Jews of
Islam. Boston Colloquium for Medieval Philosophy: Boston University Harvard University: Yanoff-Taylor Lecture, Center for Jewish Studies Keynote Address, Faculty Lyceum, California State University, Fullerton Tel Aviv University: The Halmos Lecture on Arabic Literature. Boston Colloquium for Medieval Philosophy, Harvard University. 50th Anniversary, University of Hawaii Department of Philosophy. University of South Carolina. "Rights and Dignities in the Normative Traditions of Judaism," February 17, 1986. University of Southern California: 850th Anniversary of Maimonides'
Birth. International Conference on Creativity and Science: Keynote. University of Hawaii, Department of Religion. Haverford College: Gest Lecture Oxford University: The Littman Lectures Oxford University: The Baumgardt Lectures Yale University, Near Eastern Studies. Oxford University: The Oriental Institute. Oxford University: The Oriental Institute. Phi Beta Kappa Lecture: University of Hawaii. Hebrew University, Jerusalem. University of Washington, Department of Classics. University of Hawaii, Department of Philosophy.
Academy for Jewish Philosophy, Conference on Liberty, June 2-3, 1996. Neoplatonism and Jewish Thought, University of Hawaii, November 30-December 3, 1987. 50th Anniversary of the Department of Philosophy, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, 1986-7. Genetic Decisions: Problems and Promises. March of Dimes and Hawaii Committee for the Humanities. February 7, 1986. Ethics and Social Philosophy in Judaism and Islam, Institute for Islamic/Judaic Studies, Denver, May 19-21, 1985. Creativity and Science: Constructive Interactions between Sciences and the Humanities. International conference sponsored by Hawaii Council of Teachers of English, Hawaii Committee for the Humanities, National Sigma Xi, Exxon, et al. March 23-24, 1985. Islamic and Jewish Law, Institute for Islamic/Judaic Studies, Denver, May 13-14, 1984. The Contemporary Significance of Confucian Philosophy, East-West Philosophers' Conference, East-West Center, March 4-6, 1980. Humanities Roundtable on Regulation and Priorities. Statewide dialogues for humanities scholars and community leaders. For the Hawaii Committee for the Humanities, Spring 1979. Cruelty: Focus on a Hidden Crisis. Project Director and Principal Humanities Scholar, nine public forums statewide, Hawaiian Humane Society and Hawaii Committee for the Humanities, 1978-79; broadcast on radio KCCN, KAIM, KGU, KHON; KITV television. Safety, Health and Human Values. Six public forums, Hawaii Safety and Health Council and Hawaii Committee for the Humanities, 1979-80; televised on KHET; radio KAIM, KPOI.
"Judaism and Human Rights," Jackson School of International Relations, University of Washington, November 16, 1999. "Covenant, Nature and Moral Responsibility," Congregation Sherith Israel, October 24, 1998. "Maimonides and the Idea of God," Temple Ohabei Shalom, Nashville, June 12, 1998. "Immortality," Havurah of Nashville, May 17, 1998. "The Islamic Kal©∫m and Maimonides," guest lecture, Themes of Western Religions, Vanderbilt, November 12, 1997. "The Binding of Isaac and the Idea of God," Gratz Award Address, Philadelphia, November 9, 1997. "On Justice - Response to Four Commentaries," March 26, 1996. Commentators were Professors Robert Ehman, Peter Haas and Gregg Horowitz, all of Vanderbilt. Saadiah on the Psalms, Institute for Advanced Study, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, June 1, 1995. Neoplatonism in Saadiah, Halevi and Maimonides, International conference, Binghamton University, October 16, 1994. "Toward a Philosophy of Ritual," Scholar in Residence, Pacific Northwest Rabbinical Assembly Congress, Honolulu, January 5, 1993; History and Critical Theory of Religion Faculty Seminar, Vanderbilt University, September 20, 1994. "The Roots of Western Thought," Sungchun (Great Books Academy) of Seoul, Korea, East West Center, Honolulu, January 12, 1993. "On Doing Jewish Philosophy," Philosophy Department, University of Colorado, Boulder, May 14, 1992; University of Nebraska, Jewish Studies Faculty, May 12, 1992; Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel, March 30, 1992; University of Washington, November 16, 1999. "Jewish Ideas, Jewish Values, Jewish Geography from the Maghrib to China," Conference on the Jewish Communities of China, University of Hawaii, August 13, 1992. "Apologies," National Public Radio, Talk of the Nation, December 11, 1991. "Justice and Ontology," University of Hawaii Philosophy Colloquium, November 22, 1991. "On Justice, on Punishment and on the Messianic Age," Pacific Northwest Rabbinical Assembly Conference, Scholar in Residence, Kahana, Maui, January 8-9, 1991. "The Fragility of Martha Nussbaum's Account of Goodness," Hawaii Pacific University Forum on The Good Society, February 6, 1991. Synopsis published by the university. "Avicenna: Life of the Philosopher (980-1037)," Center for Biographical Research, Honolulu, October 11, 1990. Summary published by the Center, 1992. "Traces of the Encounter of Buddhism with Islam," International Conference on Buddhist-Muslim Relations, East West Center, October 18, 1989. "Equality, Freedom and Community," University of Hawaii Law School - Council on Legal Education, Bicentennial Conference on the American Constitution, July 27, 1987. "Types of Ethical Theory," Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii, April 9, 1987. "Saadiah Gaon and Job," Boston Colloquium for Medieval Philosophy, November 17, 1986; Pacific Northwest Rabbinical Assembly Scholar in Residence, Kahana, Maui, January 8-9, 1991. "Philosophy and the Disciplines," President's Colloquium, University of Hawaii, November 8, 1986. "Maimonides on the Logic of God," University of South Carolina, February 18, 1986; Phillips Academy, Andover, November 16, 1986. "Israel and the Middle East," Dialogue, KHET, Honolulu, September, 1986. "Caring for the Ethos," Kalani High School, Honolulu, April 1984; Parker School, Kamuela, October 1985. "Plato on Justice and the Good Life," Punahou School, two sessions, December, 1983. The Philosophy of Maimonides, eleven-week seminar, Honolulu, Spring/Summer, 1983. The rights of leprosy patients, Hawaii Council of Churches, two televised programs, 1979. "Aristotelian Taxonomy and Biology Today," Zoology Seminar, University of Hawaii, October, 1982. "Toward a General Theory of Deserts: Animal Experimentation, Ecology and Ethics," Biology Seminar, University of Hawaii, April, 1982. "Biology without Reductionism," Consortium of Science Humanists, March, 1982. "Dignity and the Deaf-blind," five televised programs, Hawaii State Department of Education, and the Coordinating Council on Deaf-Blindness, February, 1982. "Ethics and Monotheism," Honolulu B'nai B'rith, January, 1982. "Violence in Children's Theatre," Honolulu Theatre for Youth, October 27, 1981. "Child Autonomy and State Responsibility," Office of the Attorney General and Hawaii Committee for the Humanities, July 23, 1981. "What is Comparative Philosophy?" University of Hawaii, November 6, 1981. "Islam and Politics in Historical Perspective," KHON-TV, December, 1979. "Einstein: Science and Religion," KHON-TV, March 1979. "Education for learning disabled children," Association for Children with Learning Disabilities, Maui, November 9, 1977; Oahu, February 8, 1978. "Community integration of the mentally disabled," Hawaii Committee for the Humanities and Mental Health Association, three programs, 1978. "Liberal Education," Radio KNDI, June 1977. "Liberal Principles and the Common Weal," three talks, Television Channel 32, March 1977. "Relativity, Quantum Physics and Philosophy," University of Hawaii, March 16, 1977. "Humanities Research Methods and Outlooks," School of Library Science, February 1977. "Abortion and Morality," Women's Studies Program, Fall, 1976. "The Idea of God and the Tetragrammaton," Temple Emanu-El, Honolulu, January 1976. "Judaism and the Good Life," Aloha Chapel, Pearl Harbor, February 1976; Temple of Aaron, St. Paul, March 1976. "Maimonides and the Jewish Future," Radio WEVD, New York, March, 1976. "Creation," Chavurah of Hawaii, January 1976; Chavurah of Minneapolis, March 1976. Maimonides, Temple of Aaron, St. Paul, Minnesota, 19-21 March 1976; Eastern Regional Institute, B'nai B'rith, Honesdale, Pennsylvania, 30 June-4 July 1976; Wildacres Regional Institute, Little Switzerland, North Carolina, 11-15 July 1976. "The Meaning of Monotheism in the Twentieth Century," Temple of Aaron, St. Paul, 19 March 1976; Anshe Sholom, Kew Gardens, New York, 26 March 1976. "On Introducing Philosophy," University of Hawaii, November 14, 1975. "The Symbolism of Transcendence," Temple Emanu-El, Honolulu, November 16, 1974. "The Idea of the Messianic Age," Unitarian Church of Honolulu, July 22, 1973; Congregation Sof Ma`arav, December 1, 1973; Temple of Aaron, St. Paul, 21 March 1976. "Law and Creation in the Jewish Tradition," Department of Religion, University of Hawaii, November 1971; Unitarian Church of Honolulu, February 13, 1972; Congregation Sof Ma`arav, November 1, 1972; Temple Emanu-El, Honolulu, June 20, 1975. "Remarks on the Future," telecast, October 1971, KHET. "Logical Positivism," Department of Philosophy, University of Hawaii, Spring 1971. "Morality and Law," Legal Thinking Seminar, University of Hawaii, Fall 1969, 1970.
Ethical Code of the Israel Defense Forces, 1995. Planning conference on Islam in Southeast Asia, University of Hawaii School of Hawaiian, Asian and Pacific Studies, Spring, 1992. Arabic philosophical terminology, Vatican and Tehran Institute of Islamic Studies, 1988, 1989. Community and Identity in the Islamic World, Workshop, University of Hawaii Department of Religion and Hawaii Committee for the Humanities, 1980-81. Kalaupapa: The Refuge, KQED, San Francisco, Hawaii's Leprosy patients, 1980-81. International Conference on Buddhism and Islam, 1989-90. Figures: Subjects: "The Deserts of Species," Defenders: The Conservation Magazine of the Defenders of Wildlife (Summer, 1998) 11. "Response to Alan Arkush on God of Abraham, Postmodern Jewish Philosophy Network, 1997. "Thematizing a Tradition," in Neoplatonism and Jewish Thought, SUNY Press, 1992, 12-19. "The Educated Person in a Pluralistic Society," Lyceum, 1988 California State University, Fullerton. "Impacts of Scholarship on Teaching," ACLS Newsletter, Winter/Spring, 1989, reprinted from Teaching and Learning, University of Hawaii. "Tradition: Celebrating 50 Years of Academic Philosophy in Hawaii," Philosophy East and West, 38 (1988) 231-33. "Interpretive Guide to Jewish Neoplatonism," Hawaii Committee for the Humanities, 1987. "Three North African Thinkers: Augustine, Maimonides, Ibn Khald©∫n," Hawaii Humanities, 1987. "A Right to Risk Death," opp-ed piece, Honolulu Advertiser, December 14, 1978. "Maimonides on the Problem of Evil," in Jewish Heritage Review, 1975.
Philosophy and Philosophers, 8th ed., 1982, 800 pp.
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