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According to Wikipedia, Lenn Evan Goodman is an American Jewish philosopher. His philosophy, particularly his constructive work, draws from classical and medieval sources as well as religious texts. Goodman is also an academic, scholar, and a historian with research interest in metaphysics, ethics, and Jewish philosophy. He is serving as a professor of philosophy at Vanderbilt University.

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Lenn E. Goodman's Published Works

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Did Al-Ghazali deny causality? (1978) (39)
The Overselling of Genetic Anxiety (1982) (33)
God of Abraham (1996) (33)
Time in Islam (1992) (31)
Ibn Khaldun and Thucydides (1972) (26)
Prevention--how misuse of a concept undercuts its worth. (1986) (23)
Bahya on the Antinomy of Free will and Predestination (1983) (22)
Neoplatonism and Jewish Thought (1994) (21)
The case of the animals versus man before the King of the Jinn : a translation from the Epistles of the Brethren of Purity (2012) (17)
Jewish Themes in Spinoza's Philosophy (2002) (17)
Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself (2008) (13)
Jewish and Islamic Philosophy: Crosspollinations in the Classic Age (1999) (12)
The case of the animals versus man before the King of the Jinn : an Arabic critical edition and English translation of Epistle 22 (2009) (12)
The translation of Greek materials into Arabic (1991) (11)
On Justice: An Essay in Jewish Philosophy (1993) (11)
The book of theodicy : translation and commentary on the book of Job (1992) (9)
Judaism, Human Rights, and Human Values (1998) (9)
Philosopher-King in Medieval and Renaissance Jewish Political Thought, The (2003) (9)
The philosopher-king in medieval and Renaissance Jewish thought (2002) (8)
Lenn Goodman on Religious Pluralism and Values in the Public Sphere (2014) (8)
From Oedipus to Moses: Freud's Jewish Identity (1980) (7)
In Defense of Truth: A Pluralistic Approach (2001) (6)
Aristotle's Politics Today (2007) (6)
The Greek impact on Arabic literature (1983) (6)
Coming to Mind: The Soul and Its Body (2014) (5)
From Puzzles to Principles?: Essays on Aristotle's Dialectic (1999) (5)
The Way Things Are: The De Rerum Natura of Titus Lucretius Carus (review) (1970) (5)
Medicalization and its discontents. (1987) (4)
Responsibility, Character, and the Emotions: Determinism and Freedom in Spinoza, Maimonides, and Aristotle: A Retrospective Study (1988) (4)
Epicurean Ethic of Muhammad ibn Zakariya Al-Razi (1971) (4)
Saadiah's Ethical Pluralism (1980) (4)
Maimonides and His Heritage (2009) (3)
Supernovas: The Dialectic of Celebrity in Society (2010) (3)
Saadiah Gaon on the Human Condition (1976) (3)
Ibn Tufayl's Hayy Ibn Yaqzān: A Philosophical Tale@@@Ibn Tufayl's Hayy Ibn Yaqzan: A Philosophical Tale (1973) (3)
Maimonides and Leibniz (1980) (3)
CREATION AND EVOLUTION: ANOTHER ROUND IN AN ANCIENT STRUGGLE (1983) (3)
Creation and Evolution (2010) (3)
Naked in the Public Square (2012) (3)
In Defense of Truth (2001) (2)
Ghazâlî's Argument from Creation (II) (1971) (2)
Ethics and God (2011) (2)
Monotheism: A Philosophic Inquiry into the Foundations of Theology and Ethics (1981) (2)
Time, Creation, and the Mirror of Narcissus (1992) (2)
Science and God (2008) (2)
Repercussions of the Kalam in Jewish Philosophy. (1980) (2)
Crosspollinations—Philosophically Fruitful Exchanges Between Jewish and Islamic Thought (1995) (1)
THE ROAD TO KAZANISTAN (2008) (1)
Religious Pluralism and Values in the Public Sphere: Naked in the Public Square (2014) (1)
Value and the Dynamics of Being (2015) (1)
Religious Pluralism (2012) (1)
The King James Bible at 401 (2013) (1)
The Perils of Public Intellectualism (2009) (1)
What Is Positive in Negative Theology? (2019) (1)
Some Moral Minima (2010) (1)
May You Live to Be 150! (2009) (1)
Pluralism and Consensus (2008) (1)
An Idea Is Not Something Mute like a Picture on a Pad (2009) (1)
Belonging, Identity, and Identification (2022) (1)
Saint Anselm: A Portrait in a Landscape (review) (2010) (1)
Respect for Nature in the Jewish Tradition (2015) (1)
Ibn Khaldūn and the Immanence of Judgment (2018) (1)
Ibn Khaldūn: A Philosopher for Times of Crisis (2019) (1)
Creation and Emanation (2008) (1)
Judaism: A Contemporary Philosophical Investigation (2016) (1)
Al-Farabi's Book of Letters (Kitab al-Huruf) Commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics (1971) (1)
Darwin's Heresy (2018) (1)
Ibn Tufayl's Hayy Ibn Yaqzan: A Philosophical Tale Translated with Introduction and Notes (2003) (1)
The Holy One of Israel (2019) (1)
What did Epicurus Learn from Plato? (2017) (1)
W. Montgomery Watt, Islamic Political Thought, the Basic Concepts (Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 1968). Pp. 186. 25s. (1970) (0)
Lenn Goodman on Creation and Evolution (2010) (0)
Doing Jewish Philosophy in America (2019) (0)
Naked in the Public Square (2011) (0)
Who Is Like God? (2019) (0)
To Make a Rainbow (2019) (0)
Monotheism and Ethics (2011) (0)
Revelation (2019) (0)
Democracy in the State of Israel (2018) (0)
Announcements (2002) (0)
Judaism and the Problem of Evil (2017) (0)
Three lines of critique (2010) (0)
Judaism and Democracy (2018) (0)
Natural Law (2019) (0)
Lenn Goodman and Richard McGregor on a tenth-century Islamic ecological fable (2010) (0)
Molyneux, mysticism, empiricism, and independent thinking (2020) (0)
God and Evil (2019) (0)
Review of Subtle Insights Concerning Knowledge and Practice (2020) (0)
A Call to Higher Things (2013) (0)
5 Toward a Synthetic Philosophy (2014) (0)
Holiness in Its Constellation (2019) (0)
Listening and Hearing (2017) (0)
Religious Pluralism and Values in the Public Sphere: Some Concluding Thoughts (2014) (0)
Saadiah Gaon (2018) (0)
Isagoge (review) (2008) (0)
Forum discusses science, religion and the mission of higher education (2005) (0)
Book Review:Sadr al-Din Shirazi and His Transcendent Theosophy Seyyed Hossein Nasr (1982) (0)
Announcements (1953) (0)
Afterword: God and the Soul (2013) (0)
MONOTHEISM AND THE CAPABILITIES APPROACH: ON THE WRITINGS OF (2016) (0)
God and the Good Life: Maimonides’ Virtue Ethics and the Idea of Perfection (2005) (0)
Goodman's "Saadiah's Book of Theodicy" (1990) (0)
God and the Law (2013) (0)
On Liberty Reconsidered (2019) (0)
Chapter 5. Judaism (2010) (0)
Theodicy in Islamic Thought: The Dispute Over al-Ghazali's "Best of All Possible Worlds" (review) (1987) (0)
The case for evolution (2010) (0)
The Brethren of Purity The Case of Animals versus Man Before the King of the Jinn : An Arabic Critical Edition and English Translation of Epistle 22 , trans (2011) (0)
Ibn Khaldūn and the Immanence of Judgment (2019) (0)
Lenn Goodman on Judaism, Humanity, and Nature (2015) (0)
The Presence of the Holy (2019) (0)
F. W. Zimmermann, Al-Farabi's Commentary and Short Treatise on Aristotle's De Interpretatione, Classical and Medieval Logic Texts III (London: For the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 1981). Pp. 287. (1985) (0)
ANNOUNCEMENTS (1998) (0)
Bodies and Souls (2013) (0)
The ovrselling of genetic anxiety. (1982) (0)
To Make a Rainbow - God's Work in Nature (2015) (0)
Henry Corbin, Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn ‘Arabi’ (Bollingen Series XCI, Princeton University Press, 1969). Pp. 406, 5 color illustrations. $10.00. (1971) (0)
Minima and Maxima (2013) (0)
Isaac La Peyrère (1596-1676): His Life, Work, and Influence (review) (2008) (0)
The Fihrist of an-Nadîm, A Tenth Century Survey of Muslim Culture (review) (2008) (0)
Is Maimonides a moral relativist (2017) (0)
Roundtable Replies (2015) (0)
Democracy in the State of Israel (2018) (0)
Lenn Goodman on Judaism: A Contemporary Philosophical Investigation (2016) (0)
Ordinary and Extraordinary Language in Medieval Jewish and Islamic Philosophy (1988) (0)
Toward a More Perfect Idea of God (2018) (0)
Jacobs, Jonathan.Law, Reason and Morality in Medieval Jewish Philosophy: Saadiah Gaon, Bahya Ibn Pakuda, and Moses Maimonides. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. 256. $99.00 (cloth). (2011) (0)
Listening and Hearing (2017) (0)
Editorial Board (2011) (0)
Light on Light (2019) (0)
Incorporeality (2021) (0)
Love in the Jewish Tradition (2018) (0)
Saadiah Gaon al-Fayyumi (2020) (0)
Alexander Altman, Studies in Religious Philosophy and Mysticism (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N.Y., 1969). Pp. 308. (1973) (0)
Whose Commandment Is It (2008) (0)
News of Members (1973) (0)
Books Received (1980) (0)
Lenn Goodman on the Soul (2014) (0)
Commentary on Martin P. Golding's "Private Right and the Limits of Law" (1971) (0)
Editor’s Foreword (2020) (0)
Muḥammad ibn Zakariyyā’ al-Rāzī (2020) (0)
The King James Bible at 401 (2012) (0)
Tragedy and Triumphalism (2011) (0)
Love and the Ethical (2008) (0)

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