Dr. John Frederic Post is an emeritus professor of philosophy who taught at Vanderbilt University for more than 35 years before retiring in 2001.
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Dr. Post is an emeritus professor of philosophy who taught at Vanderbilt University for more than 35 years before retiring in 2001. In addition, he served as a visiting professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame (1975-76) and as a visiting distinguished chair of the humanities at East Carolina University (1996-97). He specialized in metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of science, meta-ethics, and the philosophy of religion, working primarily within the Anglo-American analytic tradition of philosophical inquiry. Throughout his tenure, he remained equally committed to creative research and to teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. During his tenure at Vanderbilt, Dr. Post served on several university committees, including the executive committee of the graduate faculty council, the college committee on academic standards and procedures (which he chaired), the college program committee and the college advisory committee on health-related professions.
Over the course of his long career, Dr. Post published three books, contributed numerous peer-reviewed articles to philosophical journals, and presented his philosophical ideas at many professional conferences and colloquia in the United States and abroad. In his seminal book, "The Faces of Existence: An Essay in Nonreductive Metaphysics" (1987), Dr. Post argues that nonreductive physicalist materialism is compatible with a number of views often deemed incompatible with it, such as the objectivity of values, the irreducibility of subjective experience, the power of metaphor, the normativity of meaning, and even theism. "Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction" (1991) provides an engaging and challenging introduction to metaphysical inquiry informed by contemporary developments in philosophy and science, which is accessible to all readers with the gift of wonder. "From Nature to Norm: An Essay in the Metaphysics of Morals" (2008) offers a nonreductive theory of naturalist moral realism, linking evolution with ethical processes through the interplay between the biological and moral aspects of human being.
Born in Madison, Wisconsin, Dr. Post came of age in a family of historians. His father, a medieval historian, inspired both of his sons to study history. Dr. Post received a Bachelor of Arts in history from Harvard University, with magna cum laude honors, in 1958. As a senior in college, he realized that the fundamentally creative questions he wanted to ask went beyond the realm of history and required philosophical tools to answer. After graduation he attended the University of Wisconsin, where he focused primarily on symbolic logic and other recent developments in philosophy, earning a Master of Arts in philosophy and receiving an Award for Teaching in 1959. He also served two years as a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army between 1958 and 1960. Dr. Post was subsequently admitted to the doctoral program in philosophy at the University of California Berkeley where he served as a teaching fellow, completing his doctorate in philosophy in 1968. His graduate education stimulated early interests in theories of rationality, philosophical logic, and the philosophy of education.
A member of several academic professional organizations, Dr. Post excelled as vice president and president of the Central States Philosophical Association and has been active on numerous committees of the American Philosophical Association (Eastern Division), including the program committee (which he chaired), serving as an advisor in metaphysics. Dr. Post remains a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Philosophy of Science Association, the Society for Philosophy of Religion, and the International Society for Environmental Ethics, among other membership organizations.
Dr. Post secured several grants between 1970 and 1991 from the Vanderbilt University Research Council, the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Endowment for the Humanities, as well as Vanderbilt University summer stipends. He later received a Visiting Distinguished Professor Award in Humanities from East Carolina University for his work between 1996 and 1997. He also served as chairman of the International Commission for Evaluating the Project for Peace in Israel, 1979–82, at the University of the Negev. A celebrated Marquee listee, Dr. Post has been featured in Who's Who in the South and Southwest.
In recognition of outstanding contributions to his profession and the Marquis Who's Who community, John Frederic Post has been featured on the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement website. Please visit www.ltachievers.com for more information about this honor.
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