Visiting Professor
Office Location:
SH 5722
Specialization:
Research Interests
- Ancient Philosophy
- Science and Mathematics
- Greek Intellectual History
Education:
Education
Education
Ph.D- Harvard University
Master of Arts- University of Oxford
Bachelor of Arts- University of Oxford
Bachelor of Arts- University of California, Berkeley
Publications:
- Principles and Proofs: Aristotle's Theory of Demonstrative Science (Princeton University Press, 1992)
- Philosophy Before Socrates, Indianapolis (Hackett 1994; second edition, 2011)
- Simplicius, Commentary on Aristotle's Physics, book 8, chapters 6-10, translation and notes, in the series Ancient Commentators on Aristotle (Cornell University Press 2001)
- Philoponus, Commentary on Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics, book 1, chapters 1-8 in the series Ancient Commentators on Aristotle (Duckworth Publ. 2008)
- The Milesians: Thales (with G.Wöhrle) in the series Traditio Praesocratica (De Gruyter 2014)
- "Anaximander's Apeiroi Kosmoi" in Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy VI. Philosophy Before Socrates (A. Preus, ed., State University of New York Press, 2001)
- "Zeno," in Cambridge Companion to the Early Greek Philosophers, (Cambridge University Press, 1999)
- “Philoponus Account of Scientific Principles in his Commentary on Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics,” Documenti e Studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale 20 (2009)
- “The Place of the Posterior Analytics in Aristotle’s Thought, with Particular Reference to the Poetics,” in From Inquiry to Demonstrative Knowledge: New Essays on Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics (2010)
- “Parmenides B38 and Cornford’s Fragment,” Ancient Philosophy 30 (2010)
- “Philolaus on Number,” Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy 27 (2011)
- “The Cosmogonic Moment in the Derveni Papyrus,” in Presocratics and Plato: Festschrift at Delphi in Honor of Charles Kahn, Las Vegas: Parmenides Press (2013)