John M. Cooper (philosopher)

John Madison Cooper (born 1939) is the Emeritus Henry Putnam University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University and an expert on ancient philosophy.

Education and career[]

Cooper earned his Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1967 and taught there until 1971, when he accepted a tenured position in philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, where he taught until he moved to Princeton in 1981. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2001.^[1]

In 2011, Cooper delivered the John Locke Lectures at Oxford University,^[2] and in 2012, he delivered the Tanner Lectures on Human Values at Stanford University.^[3]

Philosophical work[]

He is the editor of the Hackett edition of the complete works of Plato, as well as author of Pursuits of Wisdom: Six Ways of Life in Ancient Philosophy from Socrates to Plotinus and a number of other books on ancient Greek philosophy.^[4]

Selected books[]

• Reason and Human Good in Aristotle (Hackett, 1975)
• Reason and Emotion (1999)
• Knowledge, Nature, and the Good (2004)
• Pursuits of Wisdom: Six Ways of Life in Ancient Philosophy from Socrates to Plotinus (2012)

Honors[]

Marshall Scholarship

References[]

External links[]

• Princeton University faculty page
• Princeton University official CV^{[permanent dead link]}