Henry Babcock Veatch

Henry Babcock Veatch Jr. (September 26, 1911 – July 9, 1999) was an American philosopher, known as one of the "leading neo-Aristotelian philosophers of the twentieth century".

Life and career Henry Babcock Veatch Jr. was born on September 26, 1911, in Evansville, Indiana. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire.

In 1965, Veatch left IU for Northwestern University where he remained until 1973. He then went to Georgetown University, where he was philosophy department chair from 1973 to 1976.

Veatch's most widely read book was Rational Man: A Modern Interpretation of Aristotelian Ethics (1962) which explicitly offered a rationalist counterpoint to William Barrett's well-known study in existential philosophy, Irrational Man (1958).

Major works Concerning the Ontological Status of Logical Forms (1948) Aristotelian and Mathematical Logic (1950) In Defense of the Syllogism (1950) Metaphysics and the Paradoxes (1952) Intentional Logic: A Logic Based on Philosophical Realism (1952) Realism and Nominalism Revisited (1954) Logic as a Human Instrument (1959, with Francis Parker) Rational Man: A Modern Interpretation of Aristotelian Ethics (1962) The Truths of Metaphysics (1964) Non-cognitivism in Ethics: A modest proposal for its diagnosis and cure (1966) Two Logics: the Conflict between Classical and Neo-Analytic Philosophy (1969) For an Ontology of Morals: A Critique of Contemporary Ethical Theory (1971) Aristotle: A Contemporary Appreciation (1974) Human Rights: Fact or Fancy (1985) Swimming Against the Current in Contemporary Philosophy (1990)