Jonathan Lear

John U Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and the Department of Philosophy Jonathan Lear

The philosophy and ethical inquiry of a people faced with the end of their way of life is pursued through the story of the Crow Nation as their culture was about to collapse.

Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation

Radical Hope

In this 1988 book, Professor Lear introduces Aristotle's philosophy and guides us through the central Aristotelian texts.

The Desire to Understand

Aristotle

Alex Oliver

University Assistant Lecturer in Philosophy Cambridge University and Fellow Alex Oliver

Timothy Smiley has made ground-breaking contributions to modal logic, free logic, multiple-conclusion logic, and plural logic; he has illuminated Aristotle’s syllogistic, the ideas of logical form and consequence, and the distinction between assertion and rejection; and his debunking work on the theory of descriptions is a tour de force. In this volume, an international roster of contributors discuss Smiley's work to date; their essays will be of significant interest to those working across the logical spectrum—in philosophy of language, philosophical logic and mathematical logic.

Essays in Honor of Timothy Smiley

The Force of Argument

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) developed the theory and practice of psychoanalysis, one of the twentieth century's most influential schools of psychology. He also made profound insights into the psychology and understanding of human beings. In this brilliant and long-awaited introduction, Jonathan Lear--one of the most respected writers on Freud--shows how Freud also made fundamental contributions to philosophy and why he ranks alongside Plato, Aristotle, Marx and Darwin as a great theorist of human nature. Freud is one of the most important introductions and contributions to understanding this great thinker to have been published for many years, and will be essential reading for anyone in the humanities, social sciences and beyond with an interest in Freud or philosophy.

John U Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and the Department of Philosophy Jonathan Lear

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