'''Nicholas Capaldi''' is a professor emeritus and the Legendre-Soulé Chair in Business Ethics at Loyola University New Orleans. He was previously the McFarlin Endowed Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tulsa. He is known primarily as an eminent David Hume scholar and as an ardent defender of the Western Inheritance.
==Early life== Nicholas Capaldi was born on May 5, 1939, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.{{citation needed|date=April 2023}} He graduated in 1960 from the University of Pennsylvania and earned his PhD in 1965 from Columbia University.{{citation needed|date=April 2023}} Capaldi's dissertation was on Hume's Ethics in which he challenged the conventional view of Hume on the relation of facts to values.{{citation needed|date=April 2023}}
==Career== From 1967 to 1991, Capaldi was a professor of philosophy at the Queens College, City University of New York.{{citation needed|date=April 2023}} From 1979 to 1980 he was also a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.<ref>{{cite book |page=39 |title=Report By Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace |year=1979 |publisher=Indiana University}}</ref> Capaldi joined the University of Tulsa in the early 1990s,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1994-11-20-9411200427-story.html|title=DELICATE BALANCE|website=Chicago Tribune}}</ref> and eventually served as the McFarlin Endowed Professor of Philosophy and research professor of law.<ref name=Machan>{{cite book |page=ix |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=_oYnAgAAQBAJ&dq=nicholas+capaldi+McFarlin+Endowed+Professor+of+Philosophy+and+Research+Professor+of+Law&pg=PR9 |title=Liberty and Equality |author=Tibor R. Machan |year=2013| isbn=9780817928636 }}</ref> He is now a professor emeritus and the Legendre-Soulé Chair in Business Ethics at Loyola University New Orleans. He is also the founder of the Center for Spiritual Capital at Loyola and the Director of the National Center for Business Ethics.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hbYVBAAAQBAJ&dq=Center+for+Spiritual+Capital+at+Loyola+University+New+Orleans+capaldi&pg=PR9 |title=ECRM2013-Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Research Methods ... - Google Books |publisher=Google.ca |date= 7 April 2013|isbn=9781909507302 |accessdate=2023-04-12}}</ref> He has also served as the Frank W. Considine Chair in Applied Ethics at the Loyola University Chicago. He has also served as visiting professor at institutions including the National University of Singapore and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mulBDwAAQBAJ&dq=nicholas+capaldi+National+University+of+Singapore+and+at+The+U.S.+Military+Academy+at+West+Point&pg=PR9 |publisher=Edward Elgin |author=David Crowther, Linne Marie Lauesen |title= Handbook of Research Methods in Corporate Social Responsibility|date=29 December 2017 |isbn=9781784710927 }}</ref> {{external media| float = right| video1 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?181230-1/john-stuart-mill-biography ''Booknotes'' interview with Capaldi on ''John Stuart Mill: A Biography'', April 4, 2004], C-SPAN}} Commentators have said of his work that it often brings “evolutionary account[s] into the twentieth century, exploring the ebbs and flows of the narratives beginning with the Progressive Era in the U.S.”<ref name=Inde /> He has also championed Hume as a revolutionary philosophical figure in the anglophone tradition.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5CaeDwAAQBAJ&dq=enlightenment+nicholas+capaldi&pg=PA12 |title=The Testimony of Sense: Empiricism and the Essay from Hume to Hazlitt - Tim Milnes - Google Books |publisher=Google.ca |date= |accessdate=2023-04-12}}</ref> John Gray said of Capaldi's work in the area that it was “the best account so far of Hume’s moral theory, and a contribution to Hume scholarship that will not soon or easily be matched.” <ref>John Gray, Review of Capaldi’s Hume’s Ethics, London Times Literary Supplement (June 22–28, 1990).</ref> As regards his work on John Stuart Mill, his writing was described as filling in gaps in the history of his life, and his interaction with other figures of his day.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/428463|title=Book ReviewsNicholas Capaldi, . John Stuart Mill: A Biography .Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xx+436. $40.00 (cloth).|first=Bart|last=Schultz|date=April 12, 2005|journal=Ethics|volume=115|issue=3|pages=601–605|doi=10.1086/428463|s2cid=171106044 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> The book has been described as supplying “rich information about Mill’s life but is also outstandingly comprehensive in recognizing the full range of his thought and in revealing the interconnection among his works”.<ref>Philip Kitcher, On John Stuart Mill, Columbia University Press, 2023, p. 129.</ref>
In 1998 his book ''The Enlightenment Project in the Analytic Conversation'' was described by Wayne Cristaudo as a “brilliant and comprehensive critique of analytic philosophy.”<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://doi.org/10.1080/10848770.2017.1326660|title=The Failed Programme of Analytical Philosophy|first=Wayne|last=Cristaudo|date=February 17, 2018|journal=The European Legacy|volume=23|issue=1–2|pages=172–177|via=Taylor and Francis+NEJM|doi=10.1080/10848770.2017.1326660|s2cid=148842734 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>
==Books== *''The Enlightenment: The Proper Study Of Mankind, An Anthology'' (1967) <ref name=World>https://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n50030865/</ref> *''Clear And Present Danger: The Free Speech Controversy'' (1969) <ref name=World /> *''Human Knowledge'' (1968) <ref name=World /> *''The Art Of Deception'' (1971) <ref name=World /> *''David Hume: The Newtonian Philosopher'' (1975) <ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://philpapers.org/rec/CAPDHT|title=David Hume: The Newtonian Philosopher|first=Michael|last=Williams|date=April 12, 1975|journal=Philosophical Review|volume=86|issue=3|pages=391–394|via=PhilPapers|doi=10.2307/2183791|jstor=2183791 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> *''Out of Order: Affirmative Action and the Crisis of Doctrinaire Liberalism'' (1985)<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fsCF-d6OvssC&dq=affirmative+action+nicholas+capaldi&pg=PA211 |title=Foucault and the Critique of Institutions - Google Books |publisher=Google.ca |date= November 2010|isbn=978-0271041933 |accessdate=2023-04-12}}</ref> *''Hume's Place In Moral Philosophy'' (1989)<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4CkiAQAAIAAJ|title=Hume's Place in Moral Philosophy|first=Nicholas|last=Capaldi|date=April 12, 1989|publisher=P. Lang|isbn=9780820408583 |via=Google Books}}</ref> *''Affirmative Action: Social Justice Or Unfair Preference?'' (1996)<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TG2RAAAAMAAJ|title=Affirmative Action: Social Justice Or Unfair Preference?|first1=Albert G.|last1=Mosley|first2=Nicholas|last2=Capaldi|date=April 12, 1996|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers|isbn=9780847683024 |via=Google Books}}</ref> *''Immigration: Debating The Issues'' (1997) <ref name=World /> *''The Enlightenment Project In The Analytic Conversation'' (1998).<ref name=Machan /> *''John Stuart Mill: A Biography'' (2003) <ref name=World /> *''Business And Religion: A Clash Of Civilizations?'' (2005) <ref name=World /> *''The Ashgate Research Companion To Corporate Social Responsibility'' (2008) <ref name=World /> *''Springer Encyclopedia of Corporate Social Responsibility'' (2013) *''Liberty And Equality In Political Economy: From Locke Versus Rousseau To The Present'' (2016)<ref name=Inde>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?id=1252|title=Book Review | Liberty and Equality in Political Economy: From Locke versus Rousseau to the Present, by Nicholas Capaldi and Gordon Lloyd|website=The Independent Institute}}</ref> *''The Anglo-American Conception Of The Rule Of Law'' (2019) <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335598780|title=The Anglo-American Conception of the Rule of Law | Request PDF}}</ref>
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