Lawrence Cahoone
Lawrence Cahoone | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1954 (age 71–72) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Clark University (BA) Stony Brook University (MA, PhD) |
| Thesis | The Dynamics of Subjectivism: Philosophy of Modernity (1985) |
| Doctoral advisor | Edward S. Casey |
| Academic work | |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| Institutions | College of the Holy Cross |
Lawrence Edward Cahoone (born 1954) is a professor emeritus of philosophy at College of the Holy Cross.[1] Born in Providence, Rhode Island, he received his bachelor's degree in Psychology and Philosophy from Clark University, and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Stony Brook University in 1985. He was Associate Professor of Philosophy at Boston University before moving to the College of the Holy Cross in 2000. He is a former president of the Metaphysical Society of America.
In addition to his work on theories of modernity (Cahoone 1987, 1995, 2003 below), philosophy of culture (Cahoone 2005), and political philosophy (Cahoone 2002), he developed a metaphysics of "ordinal naturalism" (Cahoone 2013, 2023), which argues that human mind, values, and culture can be understood as part of nature. To do this requires rethinking naturalism and its basis in natural science using two recent theories. One is "objective relativism," developed by the Columbia Naturalist philosophers Morris R. Cohen, John Herman Randall, Ernest Nagel, and Justus Buchler, as well as Charles W. Morris.[2] Second is the notion of "emergence" originally developed by the British Emergentists, like Conwy Lloyd Morgan, and recently reprised by many scientists and philosophers, but particularly William C. Wimsatt.[3]
Cahoone is married to the philosopher Elizabeth Baeten, formerly of Emerson College. They have two children, Harrison Baeten Cahoone and Isabel Rose Baeten Cahoone.
Works
- Cahoone, Lawrence (2023-09-01). The Emergence of Value: Human Norms in a Natural World. SUNY Press. doi:10.1515/9781438494470. ISBN 978-1-4384-9447-0.[4]
- Cahoone, Lawrence (2013-01-29). The Orders of Nature. State University of New York Press. doi:10.2307/jj.18254016. ISBN 978-1-4384-4417-8.[5][6]
- Cahoone, Lawrence E. (2005-04-01). Cultural Revolutions: Reason Versus Culture in Philosophy, Politics, and Jihad. Penn State University Press. doi:10.1515/9780271030241. ISBN 978-0-271-03024-1. Retrieved 2025-07-25.[7]
- Cahoone, Lawrence E. (2002). Civil Society: The Conservative Meaning of Liberal Politics. Blackwell Publishers. ISBN 978-0631232056.[8]
- Cahoone, Lawrence E. (1995). The Ends of Philosophy. State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-0-7914-2321-9.[9][10]
- Cahoone, Lawrence E. (1987-10-15). The Dilemma of Modernity: Philosophy, Culture, and Anti-Culture. State University of New York Press. doi:10.2307/jj.18255281. ISBN 978-0-7914-9828-6.[11]
- Cahoone, Lawrence E. (2003-02-04). From Modernism to Postmodernism: An Anthology Expanded. Wiley. ISBN 978-0-631-23213-1.[12]
References
- ^ "Lawrence Cahoone | College of the Holy Cross". www.holycross.edu. Retrieved 2025-07-25.
- ^ Cahoone, Larry (2023). "The Other Relativism". The Journal of Speculative Philosophy. 37 (4): 461–478. doi:10.5325/jspecphil.37.4.0461. ISSN 0891-625X – via Project MUSE.
- ^ Cahoone, Lawrence (2021). "Toward an Ordinal Naturalism". The Review of Metaphysics. 75 (1): 115–134. doi:10.1353/rvm.2021.0023. ISSN 2154-1302 – via Project MUSE.
- ^ Pihlström, Sami (2024). "The emergence of value: Human norms in a natural world By Lawrence Cahoone. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2023. 340 pp". Metaphilosophy. 55 (3): 507–513. doi:10.1111/meta.12692. ISSN 1467-9973.
- ^ Shook, John R. (2015). "Review of The Orders of Nature". Metaphilosophy. 46 (1): 162–166. doi:10.1111/meta.12119. ISSN 0026-1068. JSTOR 26602294.
- ^ Gulick, Walter (2014-01-01). "The Orders of Nature". American Journal of Theology & Philosophy. 35 (1): 77–82. doi:10.5406/amerjtheophil.35.1.0077. ISSN 0194-3448.
- ^ Agrama, Hussein (2006). Cahoone, Lawrence E.; Çinar, Alev (eds.). "Asking the Right Question: Two Engagements with Islam and Modernity". Political Theory. 34 (5): 647–656. doi:10.1177/0090591706288020. ISSN 0090-5917. JSTOR 20452495.
- ^ Sanbonmatsu, John (2004). "The Jargon of Culture and the Banality of Political Theory". Social Theory and Practice. 30 (2): 259–285. doi:10.5840/soctheorpract200430213. ISSN 0037-802X.
- ^ Goicoechea, David (1996). "Review of The Ends of Philosophy". The Review of Metaphysics. 49 (4): 917–918. ISSN 0034-6632. JSTOR 20129952.
- ^ Engström, Timothy H. (1999). "Can We Be Self-Consistent Without Assuming "Realism": A Discussion of Lawrence E. Cahoone's "the Ends of Philosophy"". Metaphilosophy. 30 (1/2): 124–134. ISSN 0026-1068.
- ^ Galgan, Gerald J. (1988). "Review of The Dilemma of Modernity: Philosophy, Culture, and Anti-Culture". The Review of Metaphysics. 42 (1): 132–134. ISSN 0034-6632. JSTOR 20128698.
- ^ "Review of From Modernism to Postmodernism: An Anthology". Philosophy East and West. 49 (1): 95. 1999. doi:10.2307/1400125. ISSN 0031-8221. JSTOR 1400125.