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Daniel H. Frank
Professor, Philosophy; Director, Jewish Studies Program
(PhD, University of Pittsburgh)
Office: BRNG 7135Office 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.
