Nelson Lande

Awards

The Chancellor’s Award for Distinguished Teaching (2004)
The Philosophy Department’s Robert Swartz Creative Teaching Award (2004)

Selected Publications

"Moral Knowledge, Character, and a Dilemma: The Easy Way In, The Hard Way Out", Philosophy in Context, Vol. 16, 1986, pp. 55-64.

"Posthumous Rehabilitation and the Dust-Bin of History", Public Affairs Quarterly Vol. 4, No. 3, July 1990, pp. 267-286.

"Does Pluralism Lead to Nihilism? or: Isn't it Time to Sacrifice an Ox?" in Defending Diversity, eds. Lawrence Foster and Patricia Herzog, (Amherst: University ofMassachusetts Press, 1994).

"Maimonides on Property: its Distribution and Accumulation", in Joseph A. Schumpeter, ed. Lawrence Moss, (London: Routledge, 1996).

“Trotsky’s Brilliant Flame and Broken Reed”, Social Philosophy Today, vol. 20, Summer 2004.

Courses Taught

Logic; Metatheory (a more advanced Logic course: approximately once every other year as a group independent study); Ancient Philosophy; Medieval Philosophy; Modern Philosophy; Contemporary Philosophy; Metaphysics; Hume; Kant’s Moral Philosophy; History of Ethics
Social and Political Thinkers; Capitalism and Socialism; Moral Issues in Medicine; Philosophy of Law; Introduction to Philosophy; Reasoning and Argument; Maimonides’ Guide for the Perplexed (twice as an independent study); Spinoza’s Ethics (once as an independent study); Medieval Jewish Philosophy (in the Honors Program)

Special Topics Courses: Philosophy of War, Terrorism, & Torture; Contemporary Religious Fundamentalism and the European Enlightenment; Toleration and Intolerance; Medieval Islamic and Jewish Philosophy; Medieval Islamic Philosophy

Contact Information
Office: Wheatley 05-044
Phone: 617-287-6537
Email: np.lande@umb.edu