Skip to content

John Cottingham

Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, University of Reading

John Cottingham is an English philosopher, educated at Merchant Taylors’ School near London, and St John’s College, Oxford.

He is a Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, University of Reading, Professorial Research Fellow, Heythrop College, University of London, and an Honorary Fellow of St John’s College, Oxford. He was from 1993 to 2012 editor of Ratio: the International Journal of Analytic Philosophy.

Cottingham has served as a President of the Aristotelian Society, the British Society for the Philosophy of Religion, the Mind Association and as Chairman of the British Society for the History of Philosophy. A Festschrift on his work, with responses by Cottingham, The Moral Life, was published by Palgrave in 2008.



Topic Series



Books

In Search of the Soul: A Philosophical Essay

Buy the Book

How Can I Believe?: A Little Book of Guidance

Buy the Book

Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy: With Selections from the Objections and Replies (Revised)

Buy the Book

Philosophy of Religion: Towards a More Humane Approach

Buy the Book

The Rationalists (History of Western Philosophy)

Buy the Book

Descartes

Buy the Book

Why Believe?

Buy the Book

Western Philosophy: An Anthology

Buy the Book

The Spiritual Dimension: Religion, Philosophy and Human Value

Buy the Book

How to Read Descartes

Buy the Book

Cartesian Reflections: Essays on Descartes's Philosophy

Buy the Book

On the Meaning of Life (Thinking in Action)

Buy the Book

Philosophy and the Good Life: Reason and the Passions in Greek, Cartesian and Psychoanalytic Ethics

Buy the Book