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Jon Jacobs

Degree

 BA Wesleyan University 1977; PhD University of Pennsylvania 1983

Teaching Experience

 University of Edinburgh; University of Pennsylvania; Georgetown University; Cornell University; SUNY Plattsburgh

Specialities

 Ethics, moral psychology, metaethics, history of philosophy (especially medieval)

Interests

 Moral psychology, ethics, philosophical theology, history of philosophy (especially medieval and early modern)

Publications

Law, Reason, and Morality in Medieval Jewish Thought (Oxford University Press)

"The Epistemology of Moral Tradition: A Defense of a Maimonidean Thesis" (Review of Metaphysics, 2010)

Editor and Contributor, Hebraic Sources and European Thought: Jerusalem's Enduring Presence (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)

 Editor and Contributor, Reason, Religion, and Natural Law (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)

Ethics A-Z (University of Edinburgh/Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)

Aristotle's Virtues (Lang, 2004)

Dimensions of Moral Theory (Blackwell, 2002)

Choosing Character: Responsibility for Virture and Vice (Cornell University Press, 2001)

A Philosopher's Compass (Harcourt Brace, 2000)

Practical Realism and Moral Psychology (Georgetown University Press, 1995)

Being True to the World (Lang, 1990)

Virtue and Self-knowledge (Prentice Hall, 1989)

Articles in Social Philosophy and Policy, Review of Metaphysics, Criminal Justice Ethics, Monist, American Philosophical Quarterly, Hebraic Political Studies, Ratio, Religious Studies, The Heythrop Journal, Azure, Trumah, Southern Journal of Philosophy, Biology and Philosophy, Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, Journal of Value Inquiry, Journal of Speculative Philosophy, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Thomist, International Philosophical Quarterly, International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion, Hoover Institution book on Liberty and Justice, Liberal Education, Arts & Humanities in Higher Education, Teaching Philosophy, and others...

 Numerous contributions to books on medieval philosophy, Jewish philosophy, and ethics and public affairs

Distinctions
  • Richard J. and Jean Head Chair in Philosophy

  • Director, NEH Summer Seminar 2010

  • Resident Scholar, Liberty Fund 2009

  • Visiting Scholar, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies 2008

  • National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend 2008, 1993

  • Littauer Foundation Grant 2007

  • Earhart Foundation Fellowship research grants 1999, 2001, 2003, 2008

  • Visiting Scholar, Center for Philosophy and Public Policy, Bowling Green State Universty 2006

  • Honorary lecturer in the School of Philosophical and Anthropological Studies, University of St. Andrews 1999-2000

  • Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for Philosophy and Public Affairs, University of St. Andrews 2000, 2005

  • John MacMurray Visiting Professor of Philosophy, University of Edinburgh 1999

  • Life Member, Clare Hall, Cambridge

  • Visiting Senior Member, Linacre College, Oxford

  • Professorial lecturer, Georgetown

  • Referee for Philosophical Quarterly, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Religious Studies, Journal of Value Inquiry, Oxford University Press, Princeton University Press, Cornell University Press, Blackwell Publishing, Pennsylvania State University Press, Notre Dame University Press, Fordham University Press, and others

Other

 For the website for the NEH Summer Seminar (2010) "Free Will and Human Perfection in Medieval Jewish Philosophy" go to https://sites.google.com/a/colgate.edu/jphilfwill/ You will find detailed information about the seminar and application instructions.