Lawrence Cahoone

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Lawrence is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the College of the Holy Cross. He was formerly Associate Professor of Philosophy at Boston University and President of the Metaphysical Society of America. He has taught over fifty different philosophy courses; published on metaphysics and natural science, social and political philosophy, philosophy of culture, the history of philosophy, modernism and postmodernism; and worked in the three major subcultures of recent Western philosophy: analytic, continental, and American pragmatist. Taken together, these sins make him a "systematic" philosopher. His relevant books are: The Emergence of Value: Human Norms in a Natural World (2023); The Orders of Nature (2013); Cultural Revolutions: Reason versus Culture in Philosophy, Politics, and Jihad (2005); From Modernism to Postmodernism: An Anthology (2003); Civil Society: The Conservative Meaning of Liberal Politics (2002), and The Ends of Philosophy: Pragmatism, Foundationalism, and Postmodernism (2002). He has also done two video courses for The Great Courses.