Harry McFarland Bracken

Harry McFarland Bracken (March 12, 1926^[1] - December 15, 2011^[2]) was an American philosopher, a specialist in Descartes and friend of Noam Chomsky. His academic career was framed in relation to his anti-Vietnam War activism.

Bracken received a BA in Philosophy from Trinity College of Connecticut (1949), an MA in Philosophy from The Johns Hopkins University (1954), and a PhD in Philosophy from University of Iowa (1956). He held the position of Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Iowa (1957–62); Associate Professor of philosophy at University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (1961-3) and then Arizona State University (1963-4) ;and finally Professor of philosophy at McGill University (1966–91). He was a Visiting Professor at Trinity College of Dublin; University of California, San Diego; National University of Ireland; Erasmus University of Rotterdam; and University of Groningen in the Netherlands.

Bibliography

In addition to many articles and reviews, Bracken's published books are:

The Early Reception of Berkeley's Immaterialism: 1710-1733, The Hague: Nijhoff, 1959;^[3] revised ed., 1963. AAccording to WorldCat, the book is held in 484 libraries ^[4]
Berkeley, London: Macmillan, 1974^[5] According to WorldCat, the book is held in 597 libraries ^[6]
Mind and Language: Essays on Descartes and Chomsky, Dordrecht: FORIS, 1983 ^[7]
Freedom of Speech: Words Are Not Deeds, Westport CT: Praeger [Greenwood], 1994.^[8] According to WorldCat, the book is held in 648 libraries ^[9]
Decartes.^[10] Oxford: Oneworld, 2002

References

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