LENN GOODMAN is Professor of Philosophy and Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities
at Vanderbilt University. His books include Creation and Evolution;
Islamic Humanism; In Defense of Truth: A Pluralistic Approach;
Jewish and Islamic Philosophy: Crosspollinations in the Classic Age;
Judaism, Human Rights and Human Values; God of Abraham;
Avicenna; On Justice: An Essay in Jewish Philosophy; his Gifford Lectures,
Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself – and, most recently,
Coming to Mind: The Soul and its Body, co-authored with D. G. Caramenico; and
Religious Pluralism and Values in the Public Sphere. His translations with
commentary include Ibn Tufayl’s Hayy Ibn Yaqzan; Saadiah Gaon’s
Book of Theodicy, a commentary on the Book of Job; and, with Richard McGregor,
The Case of the Animals vs Man before the King of the Jinn, a tenth century
Arabic ecological fable. Goodman and his colleague Philip Lieberman are now preparing a
new translation and commentary of Maimonides’ Guide to the Perplexed. A winner
of the American Philosophical Association’s Baumgardt Prize, the Gratz Centennial Prize,
and Vanderbilt’s highest research award, the Sutherland Prize, Goodman lives in
Nashville with his wife Roberta.
