Henry Veatch

Background

Veatch was born in Evansville, Indiana.

Education

He obtained his Doctor of Philosophy from Harvard University in 1937 and spent his career at Indiana University (1937–1965), Northwestern University (1965–1973), and Georgetown University (1973–1983) where he was Department Chair from 1973 to 1976.

Career

He also had visiting professorships at Colby College, Haverford College and Saint Thomas University. He served as president of the Metaphysical Society of America in 1961. In 1970-1971 he served as president of the Western Division of the American Philosophical Association.

Henry Veatch died in Bloomington, Indiana.

Indiana University maintains the archive of his collected papers (1941–1997). He opposed such modern and contemporary developments as the "transcendental turn" and the "linguistic turn." A staunch advocate of plain speaking and "Hoosier" common sense, in philosophy and elsewhere, he argued on behalf of realist metaphysics and practical ethics.

Veatch"s most widely read book was which explicitly offered a rationalist counterpoint to William Barrett"s well-known study in existential philosophy, Irrational Manitoba (1958).

Works

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  • Aristotle: A Contemporary Appreciation (Midland Book)

    ( Under the guidance of Professor Veatch, Aristotle stand...)

  • Human Rights: Fact or Fancy?

    (In his provocative and highly readable study, Human Right...)

  • For an Ontology of Morals: A Critique of Contemporary Ethical Theory
  • Logic as a Human Instrument

    (their application transcends even the categories)

  • Realism and Nominalism Revisited (Aquinas Lectures 19)

    (Book by Veatch, Henry Babcock)

  • Rational Man: A Modern Interpretation of Aristotelian Ethics (A Midland Book)

    (Modern Political Philosophy)

  • Rational Man

    (Modern Political Philosophy)

  • Aristotle: A Contemporary Appreciation (Midland Book) by Henry B. Veatch (1974-06-22)

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  • Aristotle: A Contemporary Appreciation (Midland Book) by Henry B. Veatch (1974-06-22)

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  • Intentional Logic: A Logic Based on Philosophical Realism
  • Realism and Nominalism Revisited The Aquinas Lecture, 1954
  • Aristotle: A Contemporary Appreciation (Midland Book) by Veatch, Henry B. (1974) Paperback
  • (Human Rights: Fact or Fancy? ) Author: Henry B Veatch May-2007
  • Rational Man, a Modern Interpretation of Aristotelian Ethics
  • Realism and Nominalism Revisited
  • Aristotle: A Contemporary Appreciation (Midland Book) Paperback 1974 Second Printing Ed. Henry B. Veatch
  • Rational Man: A Modern Interpretation of Aristotelian Ethics (A Midland Book) by Henry Babcock Veatch (1962-06-01)
  • Human Rights: Fact or Fancy? by Henry B. Veatch (2007-05-15)
  • (Aristotle: A Contemporary Appreciation ) Author: Henry B. Veatch Dec-1974
  • For an Ontology of Morals: A Critique of Contemporary Ethical Theory by Henry Babcock Veatch (1971-08-26)
  • The Review of Metaphysics (March 1964) Defense of the Private Self; Trans-sensational Knowledge; Truths of Metaphysics; Universal Metalanguages for Philosophy; Structure of Science; Alienation, Class Struggle & Marxian Anti-politics (Vol XVII, No. 3, Issu

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Veatch was a major proponent of rationalism, an authority on Thomistic philosophy, and one of the leading neo-Aristotelian thinkers of his time.