Ernest Addison Moody (1903–1975) was a noted
philosopher
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,
medievalist, and
logician as well as a musician and scientist. He served as professor of philosophy at
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he also served as department chair, and
Columbia University. He has a
annual memorial conferencein his name on the subject of
medieval philosophy. He was president of the
American Philosophical Association from 1963 to 1964.
His father was
John Moody, founder of the US
credit rating agency Moody's Investors Service.
Education and honors
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Williams College, B.A. (1924).
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Columbia University, M.A., Philosophy (1933), Ph.D., Philosophy (1936).
*1956 Recipient of Columbia's
Nicholas Murray Butler 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.
*1963–1964 President of the
American Philosophical Association
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'', 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
William of Ockham''.
*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,
Archimedes
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,
Thabit ibn Qurra,
Jordanus de Nemore and
Blasius of Parma (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), Quaestiones super libris quattuor de caelo et mundo'' (edited by Ernest Addison Moody).
*1935 ''The Logic of
William of Ockham''.
See also
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American philosophy
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List of American philosophers
Manuscripts
*Selections from the SUMMA LOGICA of ALBERTUS DE SAXONIA available in
PDF Format
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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.
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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