Stephen Menn (born 1964) is Professor of Philosophy at McGill University and, between 2011 and 2015, was Professor of Ancient and Contemporary Philosophy at Humboldt University of Berlin and the author of Descartes and Augustine about the origin of Descartes' cogito. His specialties include ancient philosophy (Plato, Aristotle, Stoicism and neo-Platonism), medieval philosophy (Western and Islamic). He is also a mathematician, holding a doctorate in Mathematics from Johns Hopkins University in 1985 and one in Philosophy from University of Chicago in 1989.

Menn is the son of linguist Lise Menn, the widow of William Bright, and is the step-brother of writer Susie Bright.[1]

Books

  • Menn, Stephen. Plato on God As Nous.[2] Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1995. ISBN 978-0-585-02970-2
  • Menn, Stephen. Descartes and Augustine, Cambridge University Press, 1998; revised paperback edition, 2002
  • Menn, Stephen. The Aim and the Argument of Aristotle's Metaphysics (draft).

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References

  1. ↑ Fox, Margalit (2006-10-23). "William Bright, 78, Expert in Indigenous Languages, Is Dead". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-05-15.
  2. ↑ Riel, Gerd Van (2016). Plato's Gods. Routledge. p. 71. ISBN 9781317079934. Retrieved 6 October 2016.
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