Ernest Addison Moody (1903–1975) was a noted philosopher,

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, and

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as well as a musician and scientist. He served as professor of philosophy at

University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California S ...

(UCLA), where he also served as department chair, and

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

. He has a
annual memorial conference
in his name on the subject of

medieval philosophy Medieval philosophy is the philosophy that existed through the Middle Ages, the period roughly extending from the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century until after the Renaissance in the 13th and 14th centuries. Medieval philosophy, ...

. He was president of the

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from 1963 to 1964. His father was John Moody, founder of the US

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Education and honors

Williams College Williams College is a private liberal arts college in Williamstown, Massachusetts. It was established as a men's college in 1793 with funds from the estate of Ephraim Williams, a colonist from the Province of Massachusetts Bay who was kill ...

, B.A. (1924). *

, M.A., Philosophy (1933), Ph.D., Philosophy (1936). *1956 Recipient of Columbia's

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Silver Medal, cited as "a leading scholar, writer and teacher whose many original contributions to the field of medieval philosophy and science have won international recognition." ''New York Times, June 1, 1959 at page 21.'' *1956 Recipient of

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of the

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. *1963–1964 President of the

Books

*1976 ''Truth and consequence in mediaeval logic''. *1975 ''Studies in medieval philosophy, science, and logic: collected papers, 1933-1969''. *1965 ''Gulielmi Ockham (

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'', ca. 1285-ca. 1349.) ''Expositionis in libros artis logicae prooemium; et, Expositio in librum Porphyril De praedicabilibus''. (ed. Ernest A. Moody.) *1965 ''The Logic of

''. *1964 " Nicolaus of Autrecourt's Critique of Causality and Substance", trans. Ernest A. Moody, in Herman Shapiro, ed., ''Medieval Philosophy: Readings from Augustine to Buridan'', New York: Modern Library. *1952 ''Medieval science of weights, scientia de ponderibus. Treatises ascribed to

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, Archimedes,

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and

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(ed. with introductions, English translations and notes by Ernest A. Moody and

Marshall Clagett Marshall Clagett (January 23, 1916, Washington, D.C. – October 21, 2005, Princeton, New Jersey) was an American historian of science who specialized in medieval science. John Murdoch describes him as "a distinguished medievalist" who was "the ...

)''. *1953''Truth and consequence in mediaeval logic''. *1942 ''Iohannis Buridani (

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), Quaestiones super libris quattuor de caelo et mundo'' (edited by Ernest Addison Moody). *1935 ''The Logic of

''.

Manuscripts

*Selections from the SUMMA LOGICA of ALBERTUS DE SAXONIA available in
PDF Format
*

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wrote a treatise on logic. Ernest A. Moody produced a translation of selections from the first three parts of this work for the use of his students. Copies of this translation were widely circulated in manuscript form. {{DEFAULTSORT:Moody, Ernest Addison 1903 births 1975 deaths University of California, Los Angeles faculty Williams College alumni 20th-century American philosophers Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni American logicians

Education and honors

Books

See also

Manuscripts