John M. Cooper (philosopher)
# John M. Cooper (philosopher)

John Madison Cooper (November 29, 1939 – August 8, 2022) was an American philosopher who was the Emeritus Henry Putnam University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University and an expert on ancient philosophy.

## Education and career

Cooper earned his Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1967 and taught there until 1971, when he accepted a tenured position in philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, where he taught until he moved to Princeton in 1981. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2001.

In 2011, Cooper delivered the John Locke Lectures at Oxford University, and in 2012, he delivered the Tanner Lectures on Human Values at Stanford University.

## Philosophical work

He is the editor of the Hackett edition of the complete works of Plato, as well as author of Pursuits of Wisdom: Six Ways of Life in Ancient Philosophy from Socrates to Plotinus and a number of other books on ancient Greek philosophy.

## Selected books

* Reason and Human Good in Aristotle (Hackett, 1975)
* Reason and Emotion (1999)
* Knowledge, Nature, and the Good (2004)
* Pursuits of Wisdom: Six Ways of Life in Ancient Philosophy from Socrates to Plotinus (2012)

### Honors

Marshall Scholarship

