James Edward John Altham (born 1944), known as Jimmy Altham and normally cited as J. E. J. Altham, is a British philosopher and a Fellow of

Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Gonville and Caius College, often referred to simply as Caius ( ), is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1348, it is the fourth-oldest of the University of Cambridge's 31 colleges and one of th ...

Biography

He obtained his BA degree in Philosophy at Cambridge followed in 1969 by a Ph.D. also in Philosophy. His dissertation was entitled 'Assertion, Command and Obligation. Philosophical Foundations of the Logic of Imperatives and Deontic Logic'. Altham was then appointed a lecturer in the Faculty of Philosophy at Cambridge from 1972. He was a former Sidgwick lecturer in Philosophy and retired as professor in 1999. He is now an emeritus professor and Fellow at Gonville and Cauis. He has published on a wide range of philosophical areas including logic, ethics and political philosophy.

Selected publications

* ''The Logic of Plurality''. London: Methuen, 1971. * 'Rawls's Difference Principle'. ''Philosophy'' 48 (1973):75–78. * 'Ethics of Risk'. ''Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society'', 84 (1983), 15–29. Retrieved from https://www.jstor.org/stable/4545003 * 'Wicked promises' in I. Hacking (ed.), ''Exercises in Analysis''. Cambridge University Press, 1985, pp. 1–21.

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1944 births Living people 20th-century British philosophers 21st-century British philosophers Fellows of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge {{UK-philosopher-stub