Lenn E. Goodman is Professor of Philosophy and Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. A graduate of Harvard and a former Marshall Scholar, Goodman earned his doctorate at Oxford and is a past winner of the Baumgardt Prize of the American Philosophical Association and the Gratz Centennial Prize, for his book God of Abraham. He has lectured throughout the United States and in Europe, Australia, and Israel. Among his other books are Judaism, Human Rights and Human Values, Avicenna, Islamic Humanism, and Jewish and Islamic Philosophy: Crosspollinations in the Classic Age.
