John Cottingham
Department of Philosophy
University of Reading
Reading RG6 6AA
England
Telephone [+44] (0) 118-378-8325
Email: J.G.Cottingham@Reading.ac.uk
Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, University of Reading
Editor, Ratio, the international journal of analytic
President, British Society for the Philosophy of Religion
Director, Impartiality and Partiality in Ethics
Main research interests:
Early modern philosophy, especially Descartes
Ethics
Philosophy of Religion
Recent and forthcoming books (click on title for more information):
‘The Good Life and the “Radical Contingency of the Ethical” ’. In D. Callcut (ed.), Reading Bernard Williams (London: Routledge, 2008), Ch. 2, pp. 25-43.
‘Demandingness, moral development and moral philosophy’. Forthcoming in T. Chappell (ed.), The Problem of Moral Demandingness (London: Palgrave, 2009).
‘What is Humane Philosophy and Why is it At Risk?’ Philosophy, Supplement 65 (2009), pp. 1-23; and A. O'Hear (ed.), Conceptions of Philosophy, Royal Institute of Philosophy series (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009).
‘Philosophy and Self-improvement: continuity and change in philosophy’s self-conception from the Classical to the early-modern era.’ Forthcoming in M. Chase and M. McGhee (eds), Philosophy as a Way of Life: Ancients and Moderns (Oxford: Blackwell, 2009).
‘Happiness, Temporality, Meaning’, in L. Bortolotti (ed.), Philosophy and Happiness (London: Palgrave, 2009), pp. 21-46.
‘The Lessons of Life: Wittgenstein, Religion and Analytic Philosophy,’ in H.-J. Glock and J. Hyman and (eds), Wittgenstein and Analytic Philosophy: Essays for P.M.S. Hacker (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), pp. 203-227.
‘Impartiality and Ethical Formation.’ Forthcoming in B. Feltham and J. Cottingham (eds), Partiality and Impartiality: Morality, Special Relationships and the Wider World (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010).
‘The Self, The Good Life and the Transcendent,’ in N. Athanassoulis and S. Vice (eds), The Moral Life: Essays in Honour of John Cottingham (London: Palgrave, 2008), pp. 231-274.
‘The Role of God in Descartes’ Philosophy’, in Janet Broughton and John Carriero (eds), A Companion to Descartes (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007), Ch. 17, pp. 288-301.
Recent broadcasts
‘On the Meaning of Life’. Interview with Nigel Warburton; podcast produced by David Edmonds. May 2007. (50,000 downloads to date)
‘Spinoza’. Broadcast discussion on In Our Time, with Melvin Bragg, Jonathan Rée and Sarah Hutton, BBC Radio Four, 3 May 2007. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20070503.shtml
