Jonathan Bennett (philosopher)
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Jonathan F. Bennett (born 1930, New Zealand) is a British philosopher of language and metaphysics, and a historian of early modern philosophy. Among many other accomplishments, his 1966 book Kant's Analytic, along with P. F. Strawson's The Bounds of Sense, reinvigorated Kant studies. In his retirement, he maintains a website devoted to making the texts of early modern philosophers more accessible to today's students.
[edit] Works
- Rationality (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1964; Hackett, 1989)
- Kant’s Analytic (Cambridge, 1966)
- Locke, Berkeley, Hume: Central Themes (Oxford, 1971)
- Kant’s Dialectic (Cambridge, 1974)
- Linguistic Behaviour (Cambridge, 1976; Hackett, 1990)
- A Study of Spinoza’s Ethics (Hackett, 1984)
- Events and their Names (Hackett, 1988)
- The Act Itself (Oxford, 1995)
- Learning from Six Philosophers (Oxford, 2001)
- A Philosophical Guide to Conditionals (Oxford, 2003)
[edit] External links
- [1] - "Translations" by Bennett of philosophical classics of the English language into contemporary English. Also works in Latin, French and German.
