Biography
Lawrence Cahoone graduated with a Ph.D. in Philosophy at Stony Brook University in 1985. Cahoone's areas of specialization are American Philosophy, Continental Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Culture, Metaphysics and Natural Science and Modernism and Postmodernism. Since 2000, Cahoone has taught at Holy Cross and is now currently an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Holy Cross. He has also written and published seven books in his career, which are as follows:
The Emergence of Value: Human Norms in a Natural World. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2023.
The Orders of Nature, Albany, NY : SUNY Press, 2013.
Cultural Revolutions: Reason versus Culture in Philosophy, Politics, and Jihad . State College, PA : The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005.
Civil Society: The Conservative Meaning of Liberal Politics. Cambridge : Blackwell Publishers, 2002.
From Modernism to Postmodernism: An Anthology. Expanded Second Edition. Cambridge : Blackwell Publishers, 2003. (First Edition, Blackwell, 1996).
The Ends of Philosophy: Pragmatism, Foundationalism, and Postmodernism. Cambridge : Blackwell Publishers, 2002. (rpt. of The Ends of Philosophy. Albany : SUNY Press, 1995).
The Dilemma of Modernity: Philosophy, Culture, and Anti-Culture. Albany : State University of New York Press, 1988.