Zeno Vendler

Zeno Vendler

Zeno Vendler (1921 – 2004) was a Hungarian-born philosopher.

He was born and brought up in Hungary in 1921. He studied there until he began to train as a Jesuit priest in Maastricht.

He received a doctorate from Harvard University in 1959, with a dissertation titled "Facts and Laws". He settled at the University of Calgary from 1965, after some other teaching positions.

He was married to the critic Helen Hennessy for some time.

Works

*Linguistics in Philosophy (1967)
*Adjectives and Nominalizations (1968)
*Res Cogitans : An essay in rational psychology (1972)
*The Matter of Minds (1984)

External links

* [http://www.phil.ucalgary.ca/people/vendler.html]


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