Ernest Addison Moody (1903–1975) was a noted

philosopher Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

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, and

logician Logic is the study of correct reasoning. It includes both formal and informal logic. Formal logic is the study of deductively valid inferences or logical truths. It examines how conclusions follow from premises based on the structure of arg ...

as well as a musician and scientist. He served as professor of philosophy at

University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Its academic roots were established in 1881 as a normal school the ...

(UCLA), where he also served as department chair, and

Columbia University Columbia University in the City of New York, commonly referred to as Columbia University, is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Churc ...

. He has a
annual memorial conference
in his name on the subject of

medieval philosophy Medieval philosophy is the philosophy that existed through the Middle Ages, the period roughly extending from the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century until after the Renaissance in the 13th and 14th centuries. Medieval philosophy, ...

. He was president of the

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from 1963 to 1964. His father was John Moody, founder of the US

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Education and honors

Williams College Williams College is a Private college, private liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Williamstown, Massachusetts, United States. It was established as a men's college in 1793 with funds from the estate of Ephraim ...

, B.A. (1924). *

, M.A., Philosophy (1933), Ph.D., Philosophy (1936). *1956 Recipient of Columbia's

Nicholas Murray Butler Nicholas Murray Butler (April 2, 1862 – December 7, 1947) was an American philosopher, diplomat, and educator. Butler was president of Columbia University, president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a recipient of the Nobel ...

Silver Medal, cited as "a leading scholar, writer and teacher whose many original contributions to the field of medieval philosophy and science have won international recognition." ''New York Times, June 1, 1959 at page 21.'' *1956 Recipient of Haskins Medal of the

Medieval Academy of America The Medieval Academy of America (MAA; spelled Mediaeval until ) is the largest organization in the United States promoting the field of medieval studies. It was founded in 1925 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The academy publishes the q ...

. *1963–1964 President of the

Books

*1976 ''Truth and consequence in mediaeval logic''. *1975 ''Studies in medieval philosophy, science, and logic: collected papers, 1933-1969''. *1965 ''Gulielmi Ockham (

William of Ockham William of Ockham or Occam ( ; ; 9/10 April 1347) was an English Franciscan friar, scholastic philosopher, apologist, and theologian, who was born in Ockham, a small village in Surrey. He is considered to be one of the major figures of medie ...

'', ca. 1285-ca. 1349.) ''Expositionis in libros artis logicae prooemium; et, Expositio in librum Porphyril De praedicabilibus''. (ed. Ernest A. Moody.) *1965 ''The Logic of

''. *1964 " Nicolaus of Autrecourt's Critique of Causality and Substance", trans. Ernest A. Moody, in Herman Shapiro, ed., ''Medieval Philosophy: Readings from Augustine to Buridan'', New York: Modern Library. *1952 ''Medieval science of weights, scientia de ponderibus. Treatises ascribed to

Euclid Euclid (; ; BC) was an ancient Greek mathematician active as a geometer and logician. Considered the "father of geometry", he is chiefly known for the '' Elements'' treatise, which established the foundations of geometry that largely domina ...

Archimedes Archimedes of Syracuse ( ; ) was an Ancient Greece, Ancient Greek Greek mathematics, mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and Invention, inventor from the ancient city of Syracuse, Sicily, Syracuse in History of Greek and Hellenis ...

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Jordanus de Nemore Jordanus de Nemore (fl. 13th century), also known as Jordanus Nemorarius and Giordano of Nemi, was a thirteenth-century European mathematician and scientist. The literal translation of Jordanus de Nemore (Giordano of Nemi) would indicate that he ...

and

Blasius of Parma Biagio Pelacani da Parma; 1416), known in English as Blasius of Parma, was an Italian philosopher, mathematician and astrologer. He popularised English and French philosophical work in Italy, where he associated both with scholastics and with earl ...

(ed. with introductions, English translations and notes by Ernest A. Moody and Marshall Clagett)''. *1953''Truth and consequence in mediaeval logic''. *1942 ''Iohannis Buridani (

Jean Buridan Jean Buridan (; ; Latin: ''Johannes Buridanus''; – ) was an influential 14thcentury French scholastic philosopher. Buridan taught in the faculty of arts at the University of Paris for his entire career and focused in particular on logic and ...

), Quaestiones super libris quattuor de caelo et mundo'' (edited by Ernest Addison Moody). *1935 ''The Logic of

''.

Manuscripts

*Selections from the SUMMA LOGICA of ALBERTUS DE SAXONIA available in
PDF Format
* Albert of Saxony wrote a treatise on logic. Ernest A. Moody produced a translation of selections from the first three parts of this work for the use of his students. Copies of this translation were widely circulated in manuscript form. {{DEFAULTSORT:Moody, Ernest Addison 1903 births 1975 deaths University of California, Los Angeles faculty Williams College alumni 20th-century American philosophers Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni American logicians Scholars of medieval philosophy

Education and honors

Books

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Manuscripts