{{Infobox academic | name = | image = | caption = | birth_date = 1944 | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | spouse = | awards = | education = University of Southern California (PhD) | thesis_title = Negative Feedback and the Dialectic of Hegel | thesis_url = https://www.proquest.com/docview/302569725 | thesis_year = 1970 | school_tradition = German Idealism | doctoral_advisor = Dallas Willard | academic_advisors = | era = Contemporary philosophy | doctoral_students = | main_interests = | notable_ideas = | website = | region = Western philosophy | work_institutions = Purdue University }}{{Short description|American professor of philosophy (born 1944)}} '''Clark Butler''' (born 1944) is an emeritus professor of philosophy at Purdue University.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Professor Clark Butler's Home Page |url=http://www.ipfw.edu:80/phil/faculty/Butler/Butler.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120408041336/http://www.ipfw.edu:80/phil/faculty/Butler/Butler.htm |archive-date=2012-04-08 |access-date=2025-06-09 |website=www.ipfw.edu}}</ref>
== Life and work == Clark Butler earned his high school diploma from Hollywood High School in Los Angeles, California, in January 1962. That same year, he studied at the American University in Cairo in the spring and attended a summer course at the University of Strasbourg in France. He received a French ''Certificat d’études supérieures'' in philosophy and logic from the University of Tunis in 1964–65. He completed a B.A. in philosophy at the University of Southern California in August 1966 and went on to earn a Ph.D. in philosophy from the same institution in August 1970.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Curriculum Vitae |url=https://www.ipfw.edu/phil/faculty/Butler/CWB.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100602162337/https://www.ipfw.edu/phil/faculty/Butler/CWB.pdf |archive-date=2010-06-02 |access-date=2025-06-16 |website=www.ipfw.edu}}</ref>
=== Publications ===
==== Books ==== * {{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qhQcKQEACAAJ |title=The Dialectical Method: A Treatise Hegel Never Wrote|date=20 December 2011|publisher=Bloomsbury Academic|isbn=978-1-61614-489-0}}<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ng |first=Karen |author-link=Karen Ng (philosopher) |title=The Dialectical Method: A Treatise Hegel Never Wrote |url=https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/the-dialectical-method-a-treatise-hegel-never-wrote/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240729175058/https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/the-dialectical-method-a-treatise-hegel-never-wrote/ |archive-date=2024-07-29 |access-date=2025-06-09 |website=Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Bordignon |first=Michela |date=May 2018 |title=Clark Butler. The Dialectical Method: A Treatise Hegel Never Wrote. New York: Humanity Books, 2011. ISBN 978-1-6161-4489-0 (pbk). Pp. 276. $39.00. |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/hegel-bulletin/article/abs/clark-butler-the-dialectical-method-a-treatise-hegel-never-wrote-new-york-humanity-books-2011-isbn-9781616144890-pbk-pp-276-3900/F33FC20EAAC86EC808985C625D010267 |journal=Hegel Bulletin |language=en |volume=39 |issue=1 |pages=157–161 |doi=10.1017/hgl.2016.32 |issn=2051-5367|url-access=subscription }}</ref> * {{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=51NLExSyHRQC |title=Lectures on Logic|date=2 July 2008|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=978-0-253-35167-8}}<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Boer |first=Karin de |author-link=Karin de Boer |date=May 2014 |title=Hegel G. W. F. Lectures on Logic. Translated by Clark Butler. London and New York: Continuum, 2008. ISBN 978-0-253-35167-8 (hbk). Pp. 249. £27. |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/hegel-bulletin/article/abs/hegel-g-w-f-lectures-on-logic-translated-by-clark-butler-london-and-new-york-continuum-2008-isbn-9780253351678-hbk-pp-249-27/A92597B2228894D8D533298A1A4A0162 |journal=Hegel Bulletin |language=en |volume=35 |issue=1 |pages=159 |doi=10.1017/hgl.2014.15 |issn=2051-5367|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=G.W.F. Hegel, Lectures on Logic: Berlin 1831 {{!}} CSCP / SCPC |url=https://c-scp.org/2010/06/22/g-w-f-hegel-lectures-on-logic-berlin-1831 |access-date=2025-06-09 |website=c-scp.org}}</ref> * {{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3AlLivoB0RgC |title=Hegel's Logic: Between Dialectic and History|date=18 December 1996|publisher=Northwestern University Press|isbn=978-0-8101-1426-5}} *{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LDzXAAAAMAAJ |title=Hegel, the Letters|date=1984|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=978-0-253-32715-4}}<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Waszek |first=Norbert |date=1985 |title=Review of Hegel: The Letters |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26597582 |journal=Hegel-Studien |volume=20 |pages=340–342 |jstor=26597582 |issn=0073-1587}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Desmond |first=William |date=1986-10-01 |title=Hegel: The Letters |url=https://www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf/purchase?openform&fp=owl&id=owl_1986_0017_0002_0204_0208 |journal=The Owl of Minerva |language=en |volume=17 |issue=2 |pages=204–208 |doi=10.5840/owl19861723|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Pelczynski |first=Z. A. |date=November 1985 |title=Hegel: The Letters. Translated by Clark Butler and Christiane Seiler with commentary by Clark Butler. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1984, pp. xv, 740, $47.50/£50.00. |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/hegel-bulletin/article/abs/hegel-the-letters-translated-by-clark-butler-and-christiane-seiler-with-commentary-by-clark-butler-bloomington-indiana-university-press-1984-pp-xv-740-47505000/D4954F056A8B5A8AB36FF0729B30D015 |journal=Hegel Bulletin |language=en |volume=6 |issue=2 |pages=17–18 |doi=10.1017/S0263523200003906 |issn=0263-5232|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Kluback |first1=William |last2=Grob |first2=Leonard M. |last3=Brown |first3=Robert F. |last4=Meynell |first4=Hugo A. |last5=Rauch |first5=Leo |date=1986-01-01 |title=Book reviews |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00136708 |journal=International Journal for Philosophy of Religion |language=en |volume=20 |issue=1 |pages=55–64 |doi=10.1007/BF00136708 |issn=1572-8684|url-access=subscription }}</ref> *{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/gwfhegel0461butl/page/n5/mode/2up |title=G.W.F. Hegel|date=1977}}<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Bonsiepen |first=W. |date=1979 |title=Review of G. W. F. Hegel |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26596410 |journal=Hegel-Studien |volume=14 |pages=413–414 |jstor=26596410 |issn=0073-1587}}</ref>
==== Articles ====
* {{Cite journal |title= Hegel and Freud: A Comparison|url=https://doi.org/10.2307/2106868 |journal=Philosophy and Phenomenological Research|doi=10.2307/2106868 |jstor=2106868 |last1=Butler |first1=Clark |date=1976 |volume=36 |issue=4 |pages=506–522 |url-access=subscription }}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Butler, Clark}} Category:Living people Category:1944 births Category:American philosophers Category:Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences alumni Category:Purdue University faculty Category:American scholars of Hegel