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 πανεπιστήμια. 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 https://web.archive.org/web/20070927040839/http://www.giffordlectures.org/Browse.asp?PubID=TPDCAV&Volume=0&Issue=0&TOC=True)
**The Transcendence of the Cave*, London: Allen & Unwin/New York: Humanities Press, 1967 (Gifford Lectures 1965–1966 https://web.archive.org/web/20070927041314/http://www.giffordlectures.org/Browse.asp?PubID=TPTCAV&Volume=0&Issue=0&TOC=True)
**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 Philosophy|Australasian Journal of Psychology and Philosophy]]*, Vol. 19, Issue 13 (December 1941): 216–235.
*"Morality by Convention", *[[Mind (journal)|Mind]]*, Vol. 33, No. 210 (1944): 142–169
*"Can God's Existence Be Disproved?", *[[Mind (journal)|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 http://www.ditext.com/findlay/god.html
*"Linguistic Approach to Psychophysics", *[[Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society]]*, 1949–1950
*"The Justification of Attitudes",  *[[Mind (journal)|Mind]]*, Vol. 43, No. 250 (1954): 145–161
*"Use, Usage and Meaning", *[[Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society]]*, Supplementary Volumes, Vol. 35. (1961), pp.&nbsp;223–242 https://www.sfu.ca/~jeffpell/Phil467/RyleUseUsage61.pdf
*"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.  http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/help/foreword.htm
*"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.  http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/help/findlay.htm
*"The Myths of Plato", *[[Dionysius (journal)|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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