Τζον Νίεμαϊερ Φίντλι

Ο Τζον Νίεμαϊερ Φίντλι ( ,  25 Νοεμβρίου 1903 – 27 Σεπτεμβρίου 1987), γνωστός ως J. N. Findlay, ήταν Νοτιοαφρικάνος φιλόσοφος.

Σταδιοδρομία
Αφού αποφοίτησε από το πανεπιστήμιο της Πρετόρια, ο Findlay φοίτησε με υποτροφία στο Balliol College, Oxford τα χρόνια 1924–1926. Από το 1927 έως το 1966 ήταν λέκτορας ή καθηγητής φιλοσοφίας σε αρκετά πανεεπιστήμια. Μετά την αποχώρηση του από την έδρα στο Λονδίνο, Ο Findlay δίδαξε στο Πανεπιστήμιο του Γεηλ και στο πανεπιστήμιο της Βοστώνης. (1972–1987).

Βιβλία
Meinong's Theory of Objects, Oxford University Press, 1933; 2nd ed. as Meinong's Theory of Objects and Values, 1963
Hegel: A Re-examination, London: Allen & Unwin/New York: Macmillan, 1958
Values and Intentions, London: Allen & Unwin, 1961
Language, Mind and Value, London: Allen & Unwin/New York: Humanities Press, 1963
The Discipline of the Cave, London: Allen & Unwin/New York: Humanities Press, 1966  (Gifford Lectures 1964–1965 )
The Transcendence of the Cave, London: Allen & Unwin/New York: Humanities Press, 1967 (Gifford Lectures 1965–1966 )
Axiological Ethics, London: Macmillan, 1970
Ascent to the Absolute, London: Allen & Unwin/New York: Humanities Press, 1970
Psyche and Cerebrum, Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 1972
Plato: The Written and Unwritten Doctrines, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul/New York: Humanities Press, 1974
Plato and Platonism, New York: New York Times Book Co., 1976
Kant and the Transcendental Object, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981
Wittgenstein: A Critique, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1984

Άρθρα
"Time: A Treatment of Some Puzzles", Australasian Journal of Psychology and Philosophy, Vol. 19, Issue 13 (December 1941): 216–235.
"Morality by Convention", Mind, Vol. 33, No. 210 (1944): 142–169
"Can God's Existence Be Disproved?", Mind, Vol. 37, No. 226 (1948): 176–183; reprinted with discussion in Flew, A. and MacIntyre, A. C., (eds.), New Essays in Philosophical Theology, New York: Macmillan, 1955 
"Linguistic Approach to Psychophysics", Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 1949–1950
"The Justification of Attitudes",  Mind, Vol. 43, No. 250 (1954): 145–161
"Use, Usage and Meaning", Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volumes, Vol. 35. (1961), pp. 223–242 
"Foreword", in Frederick G. Weiss, ed., Hegel: The Essential Writings, Harper & Row/Harper Torchbooks, 1974. .
"Foreword", in Hegel's Logic, Being Part One of The Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences (1830), Clarendon Press, 1975.  
"Foreword", in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, Oxford University Press, 1977. 
"Analysis of the Text", in Phenomenology of Spirit, Oxford University Press, 1977: 495–592.  
"The Myths of Plato", Dionysius, Volume II (1978): 19–34

Παραπομπές

Πηγές
Robert S. Cohen, Richard M. Martin, and Merold Westphal (eds.), Studies in the Philosophy of J.N. Findlay, Albany NY: State University of New York Press, 1985 (Includes autobiographical note by Findlay and his account of encounters with Wittgenstein). 
Michele Marchetto, L'etica impersonale: La teoria dei valori di John Niemeyer Findlay, Edizioni scientifiche italiane, 1989. ; Eng. tr. 1989, Impersonal Ethics: John Niemeyer Findlay's Value-theory, Avebury, 1996. 
Bockja Kim, Morality as the End of Philosophy: The Teleological Dialectic of the Good in J.N. Findlay's Philosophy of Religion, University Press of America, 1999.

Εξωτερικοί συνδέσμοι
John Niemeyer Findlay by Dr. Sanford L. Drob
 Philosophical History: The Otago Department
Gifford Lecture Series – Biography – John Niemeyer Findlay

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