Henry Babcock Veatch
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Henry Babcock Veatch, Jr. (August 26, 1911 - July 9, 1999) was a twentieth century American philosopher. He was a major proponent of rationalism, an authority on Thomistic philosophy, and one of the leading neo-Aristotelian thinkers of his time.
Veatch was born in Evansville, Indiana. He obtained his Ph.D. from Harvard University and spent his career at Indiana University (1937-1965), Northwestern University (1965-1973), and Georgetown University (1973-1983) where he was also Philosophy Department Chair from 1973 to 1976. In 1970-71 he served as president of the Western Division of the American Philosophical Association. Henry Veatch died in Bloomington, Indiana. His collected papers (1941-1997) are archived at Indiana University.
Veatch's most widely read book was Rational Man: A Modern Interpretation of Aristotelian Ethics (1962) which explicitly offered a rationalist counterpoint to William Barrett's well-known study in existential philosophy, Irrational Man (1958).
[edit] Major works
- Concerning the Ontological Status of Logical Forms (1948)
- Aristotelian and Mathematical Logic (1950)
- In Defense of the Syllogism (1950)
- Metaphysics and the Paradoxes (1952)
- Intentional Logic: A Logic Based on Philosophical Realism (1952)
- Realism and Nominalism Revisited (1954)
- Logic as a Human Instrument (1959, with Francis Parker)
- Rational Man: A Modern Interpretation of Aristotelian Ethics (1962)
- The Truths of Metaphysics (1964)
- Non-cognitivism in Ethics: A modest proposal for its diagnosis and cure (1966)
- Two Logics: the Conflict between Classical and Neo-Analytic Philosophy (1969)
- For an Ontology of Morals: A Critique of Contemporary Ethical Theory (1971)
- Aristotle: A Contemporary Appreciation (1974)
- Human Rights: Fact or Fancy (1985)
- Swimming Against the Current in Contemporary Philosophy (1990)
