Stephen Menn (born 1964) is Professor of Philosophy at
McGill University
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. Between 2011 and 2015 he was Professor of Ancient and Contemporary Philosophy at
Humboldt University of Berlin
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The university was established by Frederick William III on the initiative of Wilhelm von Humbol ...
, where he maintains the status of honorary professor.
His specialties include
ancient philosophy
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Overview
Genuine philosophical thought, depending upon original individual insights, arose in many cultures ro ...
(
Plato
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,
Aristotle
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,
Stoicism
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and
neo-Platonism
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),
medieval philosophy
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(
Western
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and
Islamic
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). He is also a mathematician, holding a doctorate in Mathematics from Johns Hopkins University in 1985 and one in Philosophy from University of Chicago in 1989.
Menn is the son of linguist
Lise Menn
Lise Menn (née Lise J. Waldman, born December 28, 1941, in Philadelphia) is an American linguist who specializes in psycholinguistics, including the study of language acquisition and aphasia.
Professional history
Menn earned a bachelor's degree ...
, the widow of
William Bright
William Oliver Bright (August 13, 1928 – October 15, 2006) was an American linguist and toponymist who specialized in Native American and South Asian languages and descriptive linguistics.
Biography
Bright earned a bachelor's degree in lin ...
, and is the step-brother of writer
Susie Bright
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She is the recipient of the 2017 Humanist Feminist Award, and is one of the early writers/activists ref ...
.
Books
*Menn, Stephen. ''Plato on God As Nous.''
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1995.
*Menn, Stephen. ''Descartes and Augustine'', Cambridge University Press, 1998; revised paperback edition, 2002
*Menn, Stephen
The Aim and the Argument of Aristotle's Metaphysics(draft).
See also
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Stoic categories
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*
List of American philosophers
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References
External links
Official page at McGill University Official page at Humboldt-Berlin, includes full bibliography
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21st-century American philosophers
Academic staff of McGill University
1964 births
Living people
American scholars of ancient Greek philosophy