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Jonathan Francis Bennett (born 17 February 1930) is a British philosopher of language and metaphysics, and a historian of early modern philosophy. Born in Greymouth, New Zealand to Francis Oswald Bennett and Pearl Allan Brash Bennett. Bennett read philosophy at the University of Canterbury (formerly Canterbury University College)〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://canterbury.libguides.com/content.php?pid=40483&sid=317727 )〕 and at the University of Oxford where he was a member of Magdalen College, Oxford. Bennett's first academic post was as a Junior Lecturer at the University of Auckland, New Zealand (then Auckland University College) (1952). He was an Instructor in Philosophy at Haverford College (Pennsylvania) (1955-56), then a Lecturer in Moral Science (Philosophy) at the University of Cambridge (1956–68), then at Simon Fraser University (1968–70), the University of British Columbia (1970–79), and Syracuse University (1979–97). In 1980, he was the Tanner Lecturer at Brasenose College of Oxford University. In 1992, he was the John Locke Lecturer at the University of Oxford. In 1985, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterB.pdf )〕 The British Academy extended him the same honor in 1991. He has also written extensively on philosophy of mind, events, conditionals, and consequentialist ethics. Bennett is renowned for his interpretations of major early modern philosophers. Bennett's (website ) is devoted to making the texts of early modern philosophers more accessible to today's students. ==Works== * 1989 (1964). ''Rationality''. Hackett. * 1966. ''Kant’s Analytic''. Cambridge University Press. * 1971. ''Locke, Berkeley, Hume: Central Themes''. Oxford University Press. * 1974. ''Kant’s Dialectic''. Cambridge University Press. * 1990 (1976). ''Linguistic Behaviour''. Hackett. * 1984. ''A Study of Spinoza’s Ethics''. Hackett. * 1988. ''Events and their Names''. Hackett. * 1995. ''The Act Itself''. Oxford University Press. * 2001. ''Learning from Six Philosophers''. Oxford University Press. * 2003. ''A Philosophical Guide to Conditionals''. Oxford University Press. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jonathan Bennett (philosopher)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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