Professor Lenn Goodman
Author
Lenn E. Goodman is Professor of Philosophy and Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. His books include Islamic Humanism; In Defense of Truth: A Pluralistic Approach; Jewish & Islamic Philosophy: Crosspollinations in the Classic Age; Judaism, Human Rights and Human Values; God of Abraham; Avicenna; On Justice; and his Gifford Lectures,Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself. A winner of the American Philosophical Association Baumgardt Memorial Prize and the Gratz Centennial Prize, Goodman has lectured widely across the world in various international venues. His original translation ofThe Case of the Animals versus Man appeared in 1978. He is also the translator of Saadiah Gaon’s Arabic commentary of the Book of Job. His translation, with commentary, of Ibn Tufayl’s Hayy Ibn Yaqzan was published in 2009 in an updated edition by the University of Chicago Press. In 2010, Goodman published a book entitled, Creation and Evolution.
