John Lachs
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, John Lachs was a Hungarian-born American philosopher. He was Centennial Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University, where he began teaching in 1967. Lachs received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1961. His primary focus was on American philosophy and German Idealism.
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Published Works
- Science of Knowledge with the First and Second Introductions, Edited and Translated by Peter Heath [and] John Lachs. -- (1970) (59)
- The Science of Knowledge: With the First and Second Introductions (1982) (46)
- Hume on Belief (1976) (30)
- Science of knowledge (Wissenschaftslehre) : with the first and second introductions (1970) (18)
- American Philosophy: An Encyclopedia (2008) (16)
- A Community of Individuals (2002) (12)
- Graduate Programs in the Undergraduate College: The Arguments against Turning a College into a University (1965) (11)
- A Thoughtful Profession: The Early Years of the American Philosophical Association (2006) (11)
- Responsibility and the individual in modern society (1981) (11)
- When Abstract Moralizing Runs Amok (1994) (11)
- Stoic Pragmatism (2005) (10)
- Thinking in the Ruins: Wittgenstein and Santayana on Contingency (2000) (9)
- To Have and to Be (2014) (8)
- Humane treatment and the treatment of humans. (1976) (8)
- Freedom and Limits (2020) (7)
- Animal Faith and Spiritual Life Previously Unpublished and Uncollected Writings by George Santayana with Critical Essays on His Thought (1967) (6)
- Mediation and Psychic Distance (1976) (6)
- 15 The Element of Choice in Criteria of Death (2020) (5)
- Ideals, practical reason, and pessimism : Dewey's reconstruction of means and ends. Author's reply : American philosophy and the Hispanic world (1998) (5)
- Physical Order and Moral Liberty. Previously Unpublished Essays of George Santayana (1969) (5)
- Grand Dreams of Perfect People (2000) (4)
- Peirce, Santayana and the Large Facts (1980) (4)
- Santayana's Moral Philosophy (1964) (4)
- Matter and Substance in the Philosophy of Santayana (1966) (4)
- The Relevance of Philosophy to Life (1995) (3)
- Epiphenomalism and the Notion of Cause (1963) (3)
- Questions of life and death. (1976) (3)
- Physical Order and Moral Liberty: Previously Unpublished Essays of George Santayana (1970) (2)
- Encyclopedia of American Philosophy (2007) (2)
- On selling organs. (1979) (2)
- Substance and matter: A response to Angus Kerr-Lawson (2003) (2)
- Dying old as a social problem subject of lunchtime discussion at Nashville Public Library (2006) (2)
- Von Bertalanffy's New View (1965) (2)
- American and European Values: Contemporary Philosophical Perspectives (2008) (2)
- What Constitutes a Pluralistic Philosophy Department (1996) (2)
- The Obligations of Philosophers (2015) (2)
- Is Aging a Disease? (2004) (2)
- Santayana's Philosophy of Mind (1964) (2)
- The difference god makes (2004) (2)
- The Human Search: An Introduction to Philosophy (1981) (2)
- A William Ernest Hocking Reader: With Commentary (2004) (1)
- Thinking in the Ruins (2020) (1)
- Two Concepts of God (1966) (1)
- Law and the Importance of Feelings (2020) (1)
- The Cost of Community (2014) (1)
- What Can Philosophy Contribute (2009) (1)
- Marxist Philosophy: A Bibliographical Guide (1967) (1)
- The impotent mind (1963) (1)
- Physician Assisted Suicide (2014) (1)
- The Future of Philosophy (2004) (1)
- Osher Lifelong Learning Institute with John Lachs (2009) (1)
- Rescher’s Cognitive Pragmatism (2009) (1)
- Two Views of Happiness in Mill (2014) (1)
- The past, the future and the immediate (2003) (1)
- The Proofs of Realism (1967) (1)
- Relativism and Its Benefits (2014) (0)
- Hegel's Science of logic and global climate change : a philosophical explanation of an environmental crisis (2007) (0)
- First Toast: Bulletin of the Santayana Society (1984) (0)
- Santayana's vision (2013) (0)
- Education in the Twenty-First Century (2014) (0)
- A theory of medical ethics: by Robert M. Veatch. Basic Books, New York, 1981. 387 pp. $20.95 (1983) (0)
- Op-ed: From enemies to peaceful neighbors (2005) (0)
- Personal relations between physicians and patients. (1982) (0)
- Comments on “Laughter in Nietzsche’s Thought” (1988) (0)
- The Philosophical Significance of Psychological Differences Among Humans (1991) (0)
- Remarks on the 25th Anniversary of SAAP (1998) (0)
- A Community of Psyches (2014) (0)
- Does ‘ Consciousness ’ Exist ? ” and the Story of William James ’ s Philosophy of Mind (2004) (0)
- Centennial Professor of Philosophy John Lachs: "Great ideas of the 19th century" Oct. 13, 2010 class (2010) (0)
- Understanding America (2017) (0)
- Leaving Others Alone (2004) (0)
- HOW RELATIVE ARE VALUES? OR ARE NAZIS IRRATIONAL AND WHY THE ANSWER MATTERS (1990) (0)
- George Santayana: Bulletin of the Santayana Society (1984) (0)
- Artless metaphysical belief (1967) (0)
- Active Euthanasia (1990) (0)
- Has Philosophy Lost Its Way (2013) (0)
- Angel, Animal, Machine: Models for Man (1967) (0)
- BELIEF, CONFIDENCE AND FAITH (1972) (0)
- The Insignificance of Individuals (2002) (0)
- The Lessons of History (2007) (0)
- An overview of "Thinking in the ruins" (2007) (0)
- Aristotle and Dewey on the Rat Race (2014) (0)
- A Community of Psyches: Santayana on Society (1980) (0)
- Thinking in the Ruins: Two Overlooked Responses to Contingency (1995) (0)
- 10. Responses to Friendly Critics Responses to Friendly Critics (pp. 596-648) (2009) (0)
- Professor Prior on Omniscience (1963) (0)
- Spirituality Without Moral Concems: Bulletin of the Santayana Society (2000) (0)
- Consciousness and Weiss's Mind (1959) (0)
- Imagination and Reflection: Intersubjectivity: Fichte’s Grundlage of 1794 (1987) (0)
- Free from the Problem of Freedom (1987) (0)
- Animal Faith and Ontology (2010) (0)
- Researchers and Their Subjects as Neighbors (1998) (0)
- The Birth of Reason and Other Essays@@@Animal Faith and Spiritual Life: Previously Unpublished and Uncollected Writings by George Santayana with Critical Essays on His Thought@@@Selected Critical Writings of George Santayana (1969) (0)
- The Cost of Comfort (2019) (0)
- A COMMUNITY OF PSYCHES: SANTAYANA (2009) (0)
- LEARNING ABOUT POSSIBILITY (2007) (0)
- Listen: Read the Bills! (2010) (0)
- In Memoriam: William G Holzberger, James Seaton, John McDermott (2018) (0)
- Thinking in the Ruins: and Santayana on Contingency. (2015) (0)
- Animas Faith and Oncology (2009) (0)
- The opinions of ancient physicians on the cause, course and treatment of cancer (2001) (0)
- Persons and Different Kinds of Persons (2014) (0)
- Drugs: The Fallacy of Avoidable Consequences. (1973) (0)
- Why Consciousness Is Reality: A Philosophical Alternative to Materialism and Classical Dualism (2010) (0)
- Labour and hope (2007) (0)
- Public Benefit, Private Cost (2014) (0)
- God’s Action and Nature’s Ways (1973) (0)
- The Transcendence of Materialism and Idealism in American Thought (2014) (0)
- Table of Contents European Perspectives on The Varieties of Religious Experience (2004) (0)
- Cheering on life: A conversation with John Lochs (2000) (0)
- The Enduring Value of Santayana’s Philosophy: Bulletin of the Santayana Society (1988) (0)
- Moral Truth or Empirical Truth about Morality: Bulletin of the Santayana Society (1994) (0)
- VUCast InterVU: Ethics, the economy and you (2009) (0)
- Both Better Off and Better: Moral Progress amid Continuing Carnage (2001) (0)
- The Personal Value and Social Usefulness of Philosophy (2014) (0)
- Grieving a Consummate Professional (2010) (0)
- Pragmatism and Death (2014) (0)
- Hegel: The Essential Writings (1975) (0)
- Z. A. JORDAN. The Evolution of Dialectical Materialism: A Philosophical and Sociological Analysis. Pp. xvi, 490. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1967. No price (1968) (0)
- Santayana on America . Edited by Richard C. Lyon. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc. 1968. Pp. 307. $3.75. (1973) (0)
- Both Better Off and Better (2014) (0)
- Good Enough (2009) (0)
- Death and Self-Importance (2018) (0)
- [Organotherapy of Dioscorides]. (1990) (0)
- The Birth of Reason and Other Essays . By George Santayana. Edited by Daniel Cory. New York: Columbia University Press, 1969. Pp. ix, 184. $5.00. (1969) (0)
- Remarks from the Pandemic Conference (2020) (0)
- 2008 Herbert Schneider Award citation for Angus Kerr-Lawson (2008) (0)
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