José Amado Benardete (1928 - 2016) was an American philosopher and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at

Syracuse University Syracuse University (informally 'Cuse or SU) is a Private university, private research university in Syracuse, New York, United States. It was established in 1870 with roots in the Methodist Episcopal Church but has been nonsectarian since 1920 ...

. He was the son of Maír José Benardete and the brother of

Seth Benardete Seth Benardete (April 4, 1930 – November 14, 2001) was an American classicist and philosopher, long a member of the faculties of New York University and The New School. In addition to teaching positions at Harvard, Brandeis, St. John's Colleg ...

and Diego Benardete, professor of mathematics at the

University of Hartford The University of Hartford (UHart) is a private university in West Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Its main campus extends into neighboring Hartford and Bloomfield. It enrolled approximately 6,000 undergraduate and graduate students as ...

. He is known for his works on

metaphysics Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that examines the basic structure of reality. It is traditionally seen as the study of mind-independent features of the world, but some theorists view it as an inquiry into the conceptual framework of ...

and

infinity Infinity is something which is boundless, endless, or larger than any natural number. It is denoted by \infty, called the infinity symbol. From the time of the Ancient Greek mathematics, ancient Greeks, the Infinity (philosophy), philosophic ...

Books

* ''Greatness of Soul in Hume, Aristotle and Hobbes'' (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013) * ''Metaphysics: The Logical Approach'' (Oxford University Press, 1989) *
Infinity: An Essay in Metaphysics
' (Oxford University Press, 1964)

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1928 births 2016 deaths American people of Turkish-Jewish descent American philosophy academics Jewish philosophers Syracuse University faculty University of Virginia alumni American metaphysicians 20th-century American philosophers Place of birth missing Place of death missing Date of birth missing Date of death missing {{US-philosopher-stub