John Joseph Haldane

Infobox_Philosopher
region = Western Philosophy
era = 20th-century philosophy
color = #B0C4DE
name = John Haldane
birth = 1954
school_tradition = Analytic philosophy, Thomism
main_interests = philosophy of mind, ethics, history of philosophy
influences = St Thomas Aquinas, G.E.M. Anscombe, Thomas Reid

John Joseph Haldane K.H.S. (born February 19, 1954) is a notable British philosopher and broadcaster and a member of the Scottish aristocratic family of Haldane. Haldane also holds a post as a Papal Adviser to the Vatican. He is noted for coining the term Analytical Thomism, and is himself a Thomist in the analytic tradition.

Education

In his formative years, Haldane attended the renowned St. Aloysius' College, Glasgow. Haldane attended the Kent Institute of Art & Design in Rochester, the Wimbledon School of Art in London for a BA in Fine Art in 1975. He also received a BA in Philosophy from Birkbeck College, of the University of London in 1980; and a PhD in 1984.

Career

He lectured at the Thomistic Institute at the University of Notre Dame in the late 1990s, editing the Journal of Medieval Philosophy and Theology as well as acting as the editor of the six-volume Modern Writings on Thomism. Since 2000 he has been at the University of St Andrews as a professor and director of the graduate programme, director of teaching in philosophy and director of the Centre for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs. Before that, he taught for a decade across Britain and in the United States. In addition, he has lectured widely, at the Institute for the Psychological Sciences in the United States from 2006; at the Centre for the Study of Sculpture in England in 1999; and delivering the Gifford Lectures at the University of Aberdeen in 2003-4. [Gifford Lectures [http://www.giffordlectures.org/Author.asp?AuthorID=216 biography] ]

Fellowships, etc.

* Royal Society of Arts, London (Fellow, 1995).
* Royal Society of Edinburgh, (Fellow, 1995).
* St Anselm College, NH (Hon. LLD, 1997)
* KHS: Ordo Equestris Sancti Sepulchri Hierosolymitani

Publications

* "Atheism and Theism". Co-authored with J.J.C. Smart. (Blackwell, 1996) Listed by Blackwell in its 'Tomorrow's Classics' leaflet.

* "An Intelligent Person’s Guide to Religion". (London: Duckworth, 2003)

* "Faithful Reason". (London: Routledge, 2004)

Edited works

* "Mind, Causation and Action". Co-edited with Roger Squires and Leslie Stevenson (Oxford: Blackwell, 1986).

* "Philosophy, Conservation and the Environment" (St Andrews: CPPA, 1989).

* "Logical Necessity and Other Essays". Co-edited with Roger Scruton (London: Aristotelian Society, 1990).

* "James Frederick Ferrier" by E. Haldane (Bristol: Thoemmes, 1991).

* "Reality, Representation and Projection". Co-edited with Crispin Wright (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993).

* "Philosophers and Philosophies": Special Issue of The Philosophical Quarterly (1993).

* "Analytical Thomism": Issue of The Monist (1997).

* "Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy" (London: Routledge, 1998).

* "Modern Painters in Scotland": Special feature in Modern Painters (1999).

* "Philosophy and Public Affairs" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000).

* "Thomas Reid Special": Issue of the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly (2000).

* "Demarco: Philosophy and Art" (Kingston: Kingston University, 2000).

* "Mind, Metaphysics and Value in the Thomistic and Analytical Traditions" (Notre Dame, IN: UNDP, 2002).

* "The Philosophy of Thomas Reid". Co-edited with Stephen Read (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002).
* "Spirituality, Philosophy and Education". Co-edited with David Carr (London: RoutledgeFalmer, 2003)

* "Modern Writings on Thomism" (Bristol: Thoemmes/Continuum, 2003)

* "Values, Education and the Human World" (Exeter: Imprint Academic, 2004).

* "Philosophy and its Public Role". Co-edited with W. Aiken. (Exeter: Imprint Academic, 2004).

* "Hume on Mind and Causality": Issue of the Journal of Scottish Philosophy (2007).

* "Scottish Philosophy": Issue of The Monist (2007).

Family

Haldane lives with his 4 children and wife in Scotland.

ources

*http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~jjh1/
*http://ethicscenter.nd.edu/about/haldane.shtml

Notes & references

External links

* [http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~jjh1/ Haldane's University Page]