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.
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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
