William E. Mann
William E. Mann has been a professor in the Department of Philosophy at
the University of
Vermont since 1974. Mann's areas of specialization include the
philosophy of religion, ancient
philosophy, medieval philosophy, and metaphysics. He also has interests
in logic, the philosophy
of logic, and ethics.
Mann’s most recent published work includes essays on the interpretation
of various medieval philosophers along with a series of papers in
philosophical theology that investigate various connections between
religion and ethics. The latter papers deal with aspects of the general
question, “What difference, if any, would the existence of God make to
questions about good and bad, right and wrong?”.
Mann regularly teaches introductory-level courses (Introduction to
Philosophy: Selected Problems, Introduction to Logic) along with an
intermediate-level course in the History of Ancient Philosophy and an
advanced undergraduate seminar dealing with the philosophical
interrelations between religion and ethics.
Some of Mann's representative publications are:
- The Blackwell Guide to the
Philosophy of Religion (Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers,
2004), xvi + 335 pp.
- “Inner-Life Ethics,” in Gareth B. Matthews (ed.), The Augustinian Tradition
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999), pp. 140-165.
- “Augustine on Evil and Original Sin,” in Eleonore Stump and
Norman Kretzmann (eds.), The
Cambridge Companion to Augustine (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2001), pp. 40-48.
- “Duns Scotus on Natural and Supernatural Knowledge of God,” in
Thomas Williams (ed.), The Cambridge
Companion to Duns Scotus (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2003), pp. 238-262.
- “To Catch a Heretic: Augustine on Lying,” Faith and Philosophy, 20 (2003),
Special Issue on “Augustine,” pp. 479-495.
- “Ethics,” in Jeffrey Brower and Kevin Guilfoy (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Abelard (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp. 279-304.
- “Theism and the Foundations of Ethics,” in William E. Mann (ed.),
The Blackwell Guide to the
Philosophy of Religion (Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers,
2004), pp. 283-304.
- “Divine Sovereignty and Aseity,” in William J. Wainwright (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of
Religion (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
- “Anselm on the Trinity,” in Brian Davies and Brian Leftow (eds.),
The Cambridge Companion to Anselm
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).