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Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Clark_Butler > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Clark_Butler.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark_Butler > Source revision: 1354474798 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Infobox academic | name = | image = | caption = | birth_date = 1944 | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | spouse = | awards = | education = [University of Southern California](/source/University_of_Southern_California) ([PhD](/source/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](/source/German_Idealism) | doctoral_advisor = [Dallas Willard](/source/Dallas_Willard) | academic_advisors = | era = [Contemporary philosophy](/source/Contemporary_philosophy) | doctoral_students = | main_interests = | notable_ideas = | website = | region = [Western philosophy](/source/Western_philosophy) | work_institutions = [Purdue University](/source/Purdue_University) }}{{Short description|American professor of philosophy (born 1944)}} '''Clark Butler''' (born 1944) is an emeritus professor of philosophy at [Purdue University](/source/Purdue_University).{{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}} == 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](/source/American_University_in_Cairo) in the spring and attended a summer course at the [University of Strasbourg](/source/University_of_Strasbourg) in France. He received a French ''Certificat d’études supérieures'' in philosophy and logic from the [University of Tunis](/source/Tunis_University) in 1964–65. He completed a B.A. in philosophy at the [University of Southern California](/source/University_of_Southern_California) in August 1966 and went on to earn a Ph.D. in philosophy from the same institution in August 1970.{{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}} === 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}}{{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}}{{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 }} * {{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}}{{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 }}{{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}} * {{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}}{{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}}{{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 }}{{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 }}{{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 }} *{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/gwfhegel0461butl/page/n5/mode/2up |title=G.W.F. Hegel|date=1977}}{{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}} ==== 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 }} == References == {{Reflist}} == External links == * {{Google Scholar ID|id=-0b_7bIAAAAJ}} {{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 --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Clark Butler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark_Butler) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark_Butler?action=history)). 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