“Crosspollinations Between Jewish and Islamic Philosophy: Humanistic Themes”

Monday, Oct. 28, 2002 @ 7:30 p.m.
Willard Smith Library

Lenn E. Goodman
Professor of Philosophy
Vanderbilt University

Lenn E. Goodman is Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University, and specializes in Jewish and Islamic philosophy. He has lectured throughout the United States and in Paris, Lisbon, Tel Aviv, Haifa, Jerusalem, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, and Oxford. His books include In Defense of Truth: A Pluralistic Approach (2001), Jewish and Islamic Philosophy: Crosspollinations in the Classic Age (1999), Judaism, Human Rights andHuman Values (1998), God of Abraham (1996), Avicenna (1992), and On Justice: An Essay in JewishPhilosophy (1991). His book length translations and philosophical commentaries include the writings of Moses Maimonides and Saadiah Gaon, as well as Islamic classics such as Ibn Tufayl’s Hayy Ibn Yaqzan (1972) and the 10th century ecological fable The Case of the Animals vs Man before the King of the Jinn, by the Pure Brethren of Basra (1978). His new book Islamic Humanism is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. He was an NEH Fellow in 2001 and is currently at work on a new study entitled God and Evolution.