Robert Audi

Robert Audi (* November 1941 ) is an analytic philosopher who works on issues of ethics and practical, especially political philosophy (such as the relationship between church and state ) as well as epistemology, philosophy of mind and social sciences and religion.

Life and work

He teaches at Notre Dame and is co-opted to the Department for Business Ethics. His 2005 book, The Good in the Right renewed an intuitionistic approach to ethics and developed an epistemology ethical truths.

His PhD purchased Audi from the University of Michigan. He taught briefly at the University of Texas at Austin and a few years at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, before he came to Notre Dame.

He is also known by the publication of the Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy (first edition 1995, second 1999). In addition, he is the " Modern Readings in Epistemology " and " Metaphysics in Modern readings " out.

Works (selection)

  • Practical Reasoning and Ethical Decision, Routledge, London / New York 2006.
  • The Good in the Right: A Theory of Intuition and Intrinsic Value, Princeton University Press, Princeton / Oxford, 2004 ( paperback 2005).
  • The Architecture of Reason: The Structure and Substance of Rationality, Oxford University Press, Oxford / New York 2001
  • Religious Commitment and Secular Reason, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge / New York 2000.
  • Epistemology: A Contemporary Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge, Routledge, London / New York 1998 ( 2nd ed 2003)
  • Moral Knowledge and Ethical Character, Oxford University Press, Oxford / New York 1997.
  • With Nicholas Wolterstorff: Religion in the Public Square: The Place of Religious Convictions in Political Debate, Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, MD 1997
  • Action, Intention, and Reason, Cornell University Press, Ithaca / London 1993.
  • The Structure of Justification, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge / New York 1993.
  • Practical Reasoning, Routledge, London / New York, 1989 ( paperback 1991) ( 2nd ed 2005).
  • Belief, Justification, and Knowledge, Wadsworth Publishing Company, Belmont, California in 1988.
  • (Ed.): The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge / New York 1995 ( 2nd ed 1999)
  • With Walter Sinnott - Armstrong (ed.): Rationality, Rules, and Ideals: Critical Essays on Bernard Gert 's Moral Theory, Rowman and Littlefield, 2002.
  • With William Wainwright (eds.): Rationality, Religious Belief, and Moral Commitment: New Essays in the Philosophy of Religion, Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London 1986.

Awards

  • 2008: Albertus Magnus Chair
Analytic philosophy Practical philosophy Intuitionistic logic University of Nebraska–Lincoln Integrated Authority File
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