José Ferrater Mora
José Ferrater Mora | |
|---|---|
| Josep Ferrater i Mora | |
| Born | 30 October 1912 Barcelona, Spain |
| Died | 30 January 1991 (aged 78) Barcelona, Spain |
| Spouse | |
| Awards | Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X, the Wise (1984) Creu de Sant Jordi (1984) Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities (1985) |
| Education | |
| Education | University of Barcelona (BA, 1932; BPhil, 1936) |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| Institutions | Bryn Mawr College |
| Doctoral students | Priscilla Cohn |
| Notable students | Javier Muguerza, Shaun Gallagher |
| Language | Spanish, Catalan, English |
| Main interests | Applied ethics, animal ethics, metaphysics |
| Notable ideas | Integrationism, monism sui generis |
José María Ferrater Mora (Catalan: Josep Ferrater i Mora; 30 October 1912 – 30 January 1991) was a Spanish philosopher, essayist and writer. He is considered the most prominent Catalan philosopher of the 20th-century and was the author of over 35 books, including a four-volume Diccionario de filosofía (Dictionary of Philosophy, 1941) and Being and Death: An Outline of Integrationist Philosophy (1962). Subjects he worked on include ontology, history of philosophy, metaphysics, anthropology, the philosophy of history and culture, epistemology, logic, philosophy of science, and ethics. He also directed several films.
Ferrater Mora was known for his inclusion of humans and non-human animals within the same moral sphere, or continuum, arguing that the difference was one of degree, not kind.