John Madison Cooper (November 29, 1939 – August 8, 2022)[1] was an American philosopher who was the Emeritus Henry Putnam University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University and an expert on ancient philosophy.
John M.Cooper | |
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Born | Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. | November 29, 1939
Died | August 8, 2022 Princeton, New Jersey, U.S. | (aged 82)
Alma mater | Harvard University |
Era | Contemporary philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
Institutions | Princeton University, University of Pittsburgh |
Main interests | Ancient philosophy, ethics |
Cooper earned his Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1967 and taught there until 1971, when he accepted a tenured position in philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, where he taught until he moved to Princeton in 1981. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2001.[2]
In 2011, Cooper delivered the John Locke Lectures at Oxford University,[3] and in 2012, he delivered the Tanner Lectures on Human Values at Stanford University.[4]
He is the editor of the Hackett edition of the complete works of Plato, as well as author of Pursuits of Wisdom: Six Ways of Life in Ancient Philosophy from Socrates to Plotinus and a number of other books on ancient Greek philosophy.[5]
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