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Daniel H. Frank

Daniel H. Frank


Professor, Philosophy; Director, Jewish Studies Program
(PhD, University of Pittsburgh)
Office: BRNG 7135
Office Phone: (765) 494-7564
Office Fax: (765) 496-1616
Email: dfrank@purdue.edu

Specialization: Ancient Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy, Ethics, Political Philosophy


Selected Publications

  • The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Jewish Philosophy.  Co-edited with Oliver Leaman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003 (reprinted, Chinese edition, Beijing: SDX Joint Publishing, 2006). xxiv + 483 pp.
  • The Jewish Philosophy Reader.  Co-edited with Oliver Leaman and Charles Manekin.  London and New York:  Routledge, 2000.  xvii + 618 pp.
  • History of Jewish Philosophy.  Co-edited with Oliver Leaman.  London and New York:  Routledge, 1997 (reprinted, 2000).  xii + 934 pp.
  • (rev. ed.) Saadya Gaon, The Book of Doctrines and Beliefs (Alexander Altmann [ed./tr.].  Oxford: East and West Library, 1946), new introduction by DHF.  Indianapolis and Cambridge, MA: Hackett, 2002.  vi + 194 pp.
  • (rev. ed.)  Maimonides, The Guide of the Perplexed (Julius Guttmann [ed.] and Chaim Rabin [tr.].  London:  East and West Library, 1952), new introduction by DHF. Indianapolis and Cambridge, MA: Hackett, 1995 (reprinted, 2000).  xvi + 233 pp.
  • “Jewish Philosophical Theology.”  In The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Theology, eds. Thomas Flint and Michael Rea, 541-555.  Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 2009.
  • “Divine Law and Human Practices.”  In The Cambridge History of Jewish Philosophy: From Antiquity through the Seventeenth Century, eds. Steven Nadler and T. M. Rudavsky, 790-807.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
  • “Maimonides and Medieval Jewish Aristotelianism.” In The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Jewish Thought (op. cit., 2003), 136-156.
  • “Prophecy and Invulnerability.”  In The Jewish Philosophy Reader (op. cit., 2000), 79-86.
  • “What is Jewish Philosophy?” In History of Jewish Philosophy (op. cit., 1997), 1-10.

Selected Honors

  • Baumgardt Memorial Fellowship (awarded every five years), American Philosophical Association (2003-2004).
  • Visiting Research Fellowship, British Academy, London (1994).
  • Finkelstein Research Fellowship, University of Judaism (1987-1989).
  • Research Fellowship, UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (1986).

Work in Progress

  • Spinoza on Politics, with Jason Waller (Routledge Philosophy Guidebooks Series).  London and New York:  Routledge.
  • The Sage and the Saint: Paradigms of Moral Virtue.  Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press (revision of Baumgardt lectures).
  • Moses Maimonides (Great Medieval Thinkers Series). New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • The Blackwell History of Philosophy in Medieval Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. Co-edited with John Inglis and Taneli Kukkonen.  Oxford: Blackwell. 

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