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Jonathan Bennett
Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus
M.A., New Zealand University, 1953
B.Phil., Oxford University, 1955
Jonathan Bennett has published innumerable articles and reviews - chiefly on early modern philosophy and on the philosophy of language - and ten books:
- Rationality [1964; reprinted 1989];
- Kant's Analytic [1966];
- Locke, Berkeley, Hume: Central Themes [1971];
- Kant's Dialectic [1974];
- Linguistic Behaviour [1976; reprinted 1990];
- A Study of Spinoza's Ethics [1984];
- Events and their Names [1988];
- The Act Itself [1995];
- Learning from Six Philosophers [2001];
- A Philosophical Guide to Conditionals [2003].
In addition, he co-edited An Anthology of New Zealand Verse [1955] and an edition and translation of Leibniz's New Essays on Human Understanding [1981].
Jonathan served as President of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association, and was on the editorial board of several major philosophical journals. He joined the Syracuse University Philosophy Department in 1979 and continued as a member of our faculty until his retirement in 1997.
Still active in retirement, Jonathan prepares editions of texts from early modern philosophy recast in the English of today, and makes them available on his website: http://www.earlymoderntexts.com
Jonathan now resides in British Columbia
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