Curriculum Vitae

 

Education

• Cornell University
  • Ph.D. in Philosophy, 1986
  • M.A. in Philosophy, 1984
• Brasenose College, University of  Oxford
  • Visiting Student, 1984-85
• Bowling Green State University
  • M.A. in Philosophy, 1981
  • B.A. in English Literature, 1979

 

Professional Experience

 

Regular Positions

• University of California San Diego, 2022-present 
  • Distinguished University Professor
  • Henry E. Allison Endowed Chair in the History of Philosophy
• University of Notre Dame, 2014-2022
  • George N. Shuster Professor of Philosophy
  • Cocurrent Professor of Classics
• University of Oxford, 2004-2014
  • Professor of Classical Philosophy
  • Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall
    • Chair of the Faculty Board, 2013-2014
• The University of Colorado at Boulder, 1988-2004
  • Professor, Departments of Philosophy and Classics, 1998-2004
    • Chair, Philosophy, 2003-2004
    • Acting Chair, Classics, 1998-99
  • Associate Professor, Departments of Philosophy and Classics, 1991-98 
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Colorado at Boulder 1988-91
• Colby College, 1986-1988
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religion, 1986-88

 

Visiting and Honorary Positions

• Honorary Research Fellow, Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford, 2014-Present
• Tang Chun-I Visiting Professorship, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2013
• Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, TOPOI Excellence Cluster
  • Senior Fellow, 2013
  • Visiting Scholar, 2012
• St. Louis University, James Collins Visiting Professorship, 2012
• University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, Erskine Visiting Professor, 2003
• Yale University, Visiting Professor, Department of Philosophy, 2002
• Cornell University, Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, 1997; Visiting Professor 2007
• Stanford University, Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, 1995
• Visiting Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 1992-93
• University of Arizona, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, 1985-86

 

Academic Distinctions and Fellowships

• University of Notre Dame Research Grant, Project on the Commensurability of Goodness (Grant Amount, 80K), 2016-2019
• John Fell Foundation Research Grant, 2011
• Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Research Fellowship, 2011
• National Endowment for the Humanities, Director, Summer Seminar (Grant Amount: 88K), 2004
• Erskine Fellowship, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, 2003
• Boulder Faculty Assembly, Teaching Excellence Award, 2003
• Outstanding Graduate Advisor, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2000
• University of Colorado Faculty Fellowship, 1992-93
• University of Colorado Junior Faculty Development Award, 1990
• Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Research Fellowship 1988-89; Research Fellow, Seminar für Klassische Philologie, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz
• Prescott W. Townsend Doctoral Fellowship, 1984-85
• Cornell Sage Graduate Fellowship, 1984-85
• Winner of Novus Competition For Younger Scholars, 1983
• Cornell Sage Graduate Summer Fellowship, 1983
• Lowell Leland Award, Outstanding English Literature Major, 1979

 

University and Professional Administration

• Programme Review Panel Member, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2018
• Referee, American Council of Learned Societies, 2018-present
• Chair, Grant Review Panel, Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, Portugal, 2017
• Chair of the Faculty Board, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, 2013-2014
• Member of Faculty Board, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, 2008-2014
• Chair, Board of Examiners, M. St. in Ancient Philosophy, University of Oxford, 2008-2009, 2010-2011; Member 2008-2014
• Finance Committee, Lady Margaret Hall, 2009-2014
• Dean, Lady Margaret Hall, 2005-2010
• Development Committee, Lady Margaret Hall, 2005-2014 
• Graduate Admission Committee, University of Oxford, 2003-2014
• PPE Examiner, University of Oxford, 2005-2008
• Chair, Philosophy Department, The University of Colorado at Boulder, 2003-2004
• Program Committee, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, 2000-2003
• Program Committee, American Philosophical Association, Central Division, 2003-2004
• President’s Leadership Program, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2002-2003
• Graduate School Executive Advisory Committee, The University of Colorado at Boulder, 2000-2003
• Acting Chair, Classics Department, The University of Colorado at Boulder, 1998-99
• The Chair oversees all departmental budgetary, personnel and pedagogical affairs.
• Member, Arts and Sciences Council, The University of Colorado at Boulder, 1998-2000
• Member, Arts and Sciences Budget Committee, The University of Colorado at Boulder, 1998-2001
• Graduate Committee on the Arts and Humanities, The University of Colorado at Boulder, 1998-2000
• Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Philosophy, The University of Colorado at Boulder, 1991-1995 (designed and implemented new graduate program)
• Graduate Placement Director, Department of Philosophy, The University of Colorado at Boulder, 1996-2000
• Member, Classics Department Executive Committee, The University of Colorado at Boulder, 1996-1999
• Member, Boulder Faculty Assembly, The University of Colorado at Boulder, 1993-97
• Member, Dean’s Committee for Promotion and Tenure, The University of Colorado at Boulder, 1992-1996; 2001-2003

 

Publications

 

Books

• Fractured Goodness: Aristotle’s Response to Plato’s Form of the Good (Oxford University Press: in press) 
• Principles and Praxis in Ancient Greek Philosophy, edd. with David Keyt (Springer Pub.: in press)
• Revisiting Aristotle’s Fragments, edd. with A. P. Mesquita and S. Noriega-Olmos (De Gruyter: 2020)
• History of the Philosophy of Mind, six vols., edd. with R. Copenhaver (Routledge: 2018)

• Virtue, Happiness, and Knowledege, edd. with D. Brink and S. Sauvé Meyer (Oxford University Press: 2018).
• The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas, with Robert Pasnau (Oxford University Press: 2016); 2nd, revised edition, originally published with Westview Press, 2003 
• Aristotle’s De Anima, Translated with Introduction and Notes (Oxford University Press: 2016)
• The Oxford Handbook of Aristotle, ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012)  Paperback edition, 2014
• Ancient Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge: 2011) [A revised and substantially expanded edition of Classical Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction]
  • Second edition (Routledge: 2023), revised and expanded to include Late Antique Philosophy  
  • Chinese edition, 2014
  • Japanese Edition 2021
• Aristotle (Routledge: 2007; reprinted with corrections 2008; 2nd edition, revised and expanded, 2014) 
  • Chinese Edition, 2015
• Classical Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge, 2003)
• Blackwell Guide to Ancient Philosophy, ed. (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2002);
  • Chinese Edition, 2009
• Order in Multiplicity: Homonymy in the Philosophy of Aristotle (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999; paperback edition, 2001)

 

Articles

• “Hoc Aliquid: Aquinas’s Soul is Some This,” in The History of Hylomorphism: from Aristotle to Boyle, ed. D. Charles (Oxford University Press: 2023), 330-350
• “Something about Nothing: the Nominalism of Francisco Suárez,” in The Cambridge Companion to Francisco Suárez, edd. S. Penner and S. Duarte (Cambridge University Press: forthcoming)
• “From Actuality to Goodness: Metaphysics Λ 7,” in Principles and Praxis, edd. C. Shields and D. Keyt (Springer Verlag: forthcoming)
• “The Stoic Categories,” in The Oxford Handbook to the Stoics, ed. D. Bailey (Oxford University Press: forthcoming)
• “Narrative Determination,” with Paul Studtmann, Journal of the American Philosophical Association 8 (2022), 1-20
• “Hylomorphisms,” Dialogoi 4.1 (2022), 96-127
• “Hylomorphic Mental Causation,” in Encounters with Aristotelian Philosophy of Mind, edd. P. Gregoric and J. Leth Fink (Routledge: 2021), 305-322
• “In Dialogue about Harmony,” in A. P. Mesquita et al. (eds.), Revisiting Aristotle’s Fragments, Berlin: De Gruyter, 141–162
• “Hylomorphic Offices,” Dialogoi 1.2 (2019), 215-236
• “Theories of Mind in the Hellenistic Period,” in A History of Mind and Body in Late Antiquity edd. A. Marmodoro and S. Cartwright (Cambridge University Press: 2018), 32-51
• “A Series of Goods,” in Virtue, Happiness, and Knowledge, edd. D. Brink, S. Meyer, and C. Shields (Oxford University Press: 2018), 129-148

• “What Organisms Once Were and Might Yet Be,” Philosophy and Theory in Biology, Special Issue on Organisms 9:7 (2017), edd. A. Ferner and T. Pradeu, 1-14
• “A Fetish for Fixity?” in Plato’s Symposium: a Critical Guide, edd. P. Destrée nd Z. Giannopoulou (Cambridge University Press: 2017), 160-175
• “The Young Dogs of Eristic: Dialectic and Eristic in the Early Academy,” in Strategies of Polemics in Greek and Roman Philosophy, ed. Naly Thaler (Brill Publishers: 2016), 31-54
• “Aristotle’s Requisite of Self-Knowledge,” in Self-Knowledge, ed. Ursula Renz (Oxford Universty Press: 2016), 44-60
• “The Science of Soul in Aristotle’s Ethics,’ in Bridging the Gap between Aristotle’s Science and Ethics, edd. K. M. Nielsen and D. Henry (Cambridge University Press: 2015), 232-253
• “Fractured Goodness: the Summum Bonum in Aristotle,” in The Highest Good in Aristotle and Kant, edd. R. Bader and J. Aufderheide, (Oxford University Press: 2015), 83-111
• “Virtual Presence: Psychic Mereology in Francisco Suárez,” Partitioning the Soul: Ancient Medieval, and Early Modern Debates, edd. K. Corcilius and D. Perler (W. de Gruyter: 2014), 199-219
• “First Philosophy First: Aristotle and the Practice of Metaphysics,” in The Routledge Companion to Ancient Philosophy, edd. F. Sheffield and J. Warren (Routledge: 2014), 332-346
• “Francisco Suárez,” with Daniel Schwartz, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. E. Zalta (2014)
• “The Phainomenological Method in Aristotle’s Metaphysics,” in Aristotle on Method and Metaphysics, ed. E. Feser (Palgrave Macmillan: 2013), 7-27
• “The Grounds of Logos: the Interweaving of Forms,” in Reason and Analysis in Ancient Greek Philosophy, edd. F. Miller and G. Anagnostopoulos (Springer Verlag: 2013), 211-230
• “On Behalf of Cognitive Qualia,” in Cognitive Phenomenology, edd. T. Bayne and M. Montague (Oxford University Press: 2012), 215-235
• “The Dialectic of Life,” Synthese 185 (2012), 103-124
• “The Unity of Soul in Suárez,” in De Anima Acta, ed. R. Friedman (Leiden, Brill: 2012), 355-378
• “Being qua Being,” in The Oxford Handbook of Aristotle, ed. C. Shields (Oxford University Press: 2012), 343-371
• “Aristotle’s Philosophical Life and Works,” in The Oxford Handbook of Aristotle, ed. C. Shields (Oxford University Press: 2012), 3-16
• “Shadows of Beings,” in The Philosophy of Suárez, edd. H. Lagerlund and B. Hill (Oxford University Press: 2012), 57-74
• “The Reality of Substantial Form: Suárez, Metaphysical Disputations XV,” in Interpreting Suárez: Critical Readings, ed. D. Schwartz (Cambridge University Press: 2012), 39-61
• “Die Seele,” in Beiträge zur Aristotelischen Handlungstheorie, edd. C. Rapp and K. Corcilius (Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag: 2011), 313-323
• “Plato’s Divided Soul,” in The Cambridge Companion to Plato’s Republic, ed. M. McPherran (Cambridge University Press: 2010), 147-170; reprinted in Partitioning the Soul: Ancient Medieval, and Early Modern Debates, edd. K. Corcilius and D. Perler (W. de Gruyter: 2014), 15-38
• “Shadows of Beings,” in The Philosophy of Suárez, edd. H. Lagerlund and B. Hill (Oxford University Press: 2012), 57-74
• “Perfecting Pleasures: the Metaphysics of Pleasure in Nicomachean Ethics x,” in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics: A Critical Guide, ed. J. Miller (Cambridge University Press: 2011), 191-210
• “Plato’s Divided Soul,” in The Cambridge Companion to Plato’s Republic, ed. M. McPherran (Cambridge University Press: 2010), 147-170; reprinted in Partitioning the Soul: Ancient Medieval, and Early Modern Debates, edd. K. Corcilius and D. Perler (W. de Gruyter: 2014), 15-38
• “Goodness is Meant in Many Ways,” in Grundlagen der Antiken Ethik/Foundations of Ancient Ethics, edd. G. Rudebusch and J. Hardy (Vandenhoek: 2010), 185-199
• “The Aristotelian Psychê ,” The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle, ed. G. Anagnostopoulos (Blackwell: 2010), 292-309
• “The Priority of Soul in Aristotle’s De Anima: Mistaking Categories?” in Body and Soul in Ancient Philosophy, edd. D. Frede and B. Reis (Berlin, De Gruyter: 2009), 156-168
• “An Approach to Aristotelian Actuality,” in Mind, Method and Morality: Essays in Honour of Anthony Kenny, edd. P. Hacker and J. Cottingham (Oxford University Press: 2009), 68-93
• “ Aristotle ,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, E. Zalta ed. 2008, revised 2014
• “Substance and Life in Aristotle,” Apeiron 41 (2008), 129-151
• “The Peculiar Motion of Aristotelian Souls,” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume LXXXI (2007), 1-23
• “Forcing Goodness in Plato’s Republic,” Social Philosophy and Policy (2007), 21-39
• “Unified Agency and Akrasia in Plato’s Republic,” in Akrasia in Ancient Philosophy, edd. C. Bobonich and P. Destrée (Brill: 2006), 117-140
• “Surpassing in Dignity and Power: the Metaphysics of Goodness in Plato’s Republic,” Philosophical Inquiry XXX (2008), 1-17
• “Plato and Aristotle in the Academy: an Aristotelian Criticism of Platonic Forms,” in The Oxford Handbook on Plato, ed. G. Fine (Oxford: 2008), 504-526
• “Plato’s Challenge,” in The Blackwell Guide to Plato’s Republic (Blackwell: 2006), ed. G. Santas, 63-83
• “The Aristotelian Psychê ,” ed. G. Anagnostopoulos, The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle (Blackwell: 2010), 292-309
• “ Aristotle: Psychology,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. E. Zalta
• “Learning about Plato from Aristotle,” in The Blackwell Companion to the Philosophy of Plato (Blackwell: 2006), ed. H. Benson, 403-417
• “Simple Souls,” in Essays on Plato’s Psychology (Rowan and Littlefield: 2001), ed. E. Wagner, pp.  137-156 
• “Um Problem a Respeito de Substância e Relativo em Aristóteles,” Cadernos De História e Filosofia de Ciência 3, vol. 13 (2003), 157-176
• “The Logos of ‘Logos’: Theaetetus 206c-210b” Apeiron 32 (1999), 107-24
• “Philosophy of Language: the Ancient Period,” Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (London: 1998), ed. E. L. Craig,  356-361
• “Intentionality and Isomorphism in Aristotle,” Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy  XI (1995), edd. J. Cleary and W. Wians, 307-330
• “The Subjecthood of Souls and Some Other Forms: A Response to Granger,” Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy XIII (1995), 161-176
• “The Stoic Lekton,” in Hellenistic Philosophy (Athens: 1994), ed. K. Boudouris,  137-148
• “Mind and Motion in Aristotle,” in Self Movers (Princeton University Press: 1994), edd. M. L. Gill and J. G. Lennox, pp. 117-133
• “Socrates among the Skeptics,” in The Socratic Movement (Cornell University Press: 1994), ed. Paul A. Vander Waerdt, pp. 341-366
• “The Truth Evaluability of Stoic Phantasiai: Adversus Mathematicos VII 242-46,” Journal of the History of Philosophy 31 (1993), pp. 325-347
• “Some Recent Approaches to Aristotle’s De Anima,” in Aristotle’s De Anima II and III, Second Edition, translated with Introduction and Notes by D. W. Hamlyn (Oxford University Press: 1993), 257-281
• “The Homonymy of the Body in Aristotle,” Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie (1993), 1-30
• “Aristotle on the Generation of Form,” History of Philosophy Quarterly Vol. 7 (1990), 367-390
• “The First Functionalist,” in Essays on the Historical Foundations of Cognitive Science (Kluwer: 1990), ed. J.-C. Smith, 19-33
• “Soul as Subject in Aristotle’s De Anima,” Classical Quarterly, Vol. N.S. XXXVIII (1988), 140-149; reprinted in The University of Dayton Review: Selected Aristotle Symposium Proceedings Vol. XIX (1989), 135-46; and in Readings in Ancient Greek Philosophy vol. v (Albany, New York: 1992), pp. 231-245
• “Soul and Body in Aristotle,” Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy Vol. VI (1988), 103-137; reprinted in Classical Philosophy VII: Aristotle’s Metaphysics, ed. T. Irwin (Garland: 1995),  209-243.
• “Commentary on Kosman.,” (The Role of Lambda in Aristotle’s Metaphysics) Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, Vol. III (1987), ed. John Cleary, 189-201
• “Leibniz’s Doctrine of the Striving Possibles,” Journal of the History of Philosophy, Vol. XXIV (1986), 343-357; reprinted in Leibniz: Critical and Interpretive Essays (Garland: 1995), ed. R. Sleigh (in press)
• “Body and Soul in Aquinas’s Summa Contra Gentiles II,” Studies in Early Europe (Ball State University Press: 1984), ed. R. Wires, 16-23

 

Reviews and Critical Notices

• Charles, David, The Undivided Self: Aristotle and the ‘Mind-Body’ Problem (Oxford University Press); in The Australasian Journal of Philosophy, forthcoming 
• Gaukroger, Stephen, The Failures of Philosophy (Princeton University Press: 2020); in Mind Vol. 131 (2022)
• Lesher, J. H., ed., From Inquiry to Demonstrative Knowledge: New Essays on Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics (Academic Printing and Publishing: 2011); in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, March, 2011 
• Crivelli, Paolo, Aristotle on Truth (Cambridge: 2005); in The Philosophical Review 119 (2010), 243-246
• Gregoric, Pavel, Aristotle on the Common Sense (Oxford: 2007); in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, August, 2009 
• Smith, Barry, ed., Questions of Taste (Signal Books: 2006); in The Times Literary Supplement, 28 November 2007 
• Gerson, Lloyd, Aristotle and Other Platonists (Cornell: 2005); in The Times Literary Supplement, 22 July 2005, 25
• Fine, Gail, Plato on Knowledge and Forms (Oxford: 2003); in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, August, 2005 
• Harte, V., Plato on Parts and Wholes (Oxford: 2002); in the Philosophical Review 114 (2005), 273-277.
• Madigan, A., Aristotle’s Metaphysics Books B and K 1-2, trans. and commentary (Oxford: 1999); in The Philosophical Review 112 (2003), pp. 253-255.
• Frede, Michael and Charles, David edd. Aristotle’s Metaphysics Lambda (Oxford: 2000); in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, May, 2002
• Hankinson, R. J., Cause and Explanation in Ancient Greek Thought (Oxford: 1998); in The Times Literary Supplement, 3 May 2002, 26.
• Cooper, John, Reason and Emotion: Essays on Ancient Moral Psychology and Ethical Theory, (Princeton: 1999); in Classical Journal (forthcoming) 
• Freudenthal, Gad, Aristotle’s Theory of Material Substance: Heat and Pneuma, Form and Soul (Oxford: 1995); in The Philosophical Review 106 (1997), 632-635
• Fine, Gail, On Ideas (Oxford: 1993); in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy XIII (1995), 269-281
• Currie, Gregory, An Ontology of Art (Edinburgh: 1989); in The Australasian Journal of Philosophy 73 (1995), 293-300
• Malcolm, John, Plato on the Self-Predication of Forms (Oxford: 1991); in Ancient Philosophy  15 (1995), 203-211
• Gill, Mary Louise, Aristotle on Substance: the Paradox of Unity (Princeton: 1989); in The Philosophical Review  101 (1992), 840-844
• Everson, Stephen, ed, Companions to Ancient Thought 1: Epistemology (Cambridge: 1990); in Ancient Philosophy 14 (1994), 209-216
• Lawson-Tancred, Hugh, Aristotle: De Anima, trans. with Introduction and Notes (Middlesex: 1986); in Ancient Philosophy XII (1992), 202-205
• Wedin, Michael V., Mind and Imagination in Aristotle (New Haven: 1988); in The Philosophical Review 101 (1992), 202-205
• Devereux, Daniel, and Pellegrin, Piere edd., Biologie, Logique et Métaphysique chez Aristote (Paris: 1991); in Canadian Philosophical Reviews 12 (1992), 20-22
• Cleary, John J., Aristotle on the Many Senses of Priority (Carbondale: 1988); in Classical Review XLII (1992), 209-210
• Irwin, Terence, Aristotle’s First Principles (Oxford: 1988); in Classical World  84 (1991), 329-330 
• Evans, J. D. G., Aristotle (New York: 1987); in The Philosophical Review  XCIX (1990), 443-447
• Lear, Jonathan, Aristotle: the Desire to Understand (Cambridge: 1988); in Philosophical Books 30 (1989), 137-140
• Modrak, D. K. W., Aristotle: The Power of Perception (Chicago: 1987); in Classical World 82 (1988), 61-62

Editorial

• Editor, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
• Co-editor, with R. Copenhaver and M. Timmons, Oxford Guides to Philosophy
• Section Editor, History of Philosophy, Philosophy Compass
• Section Editor, Aristotle, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Editorial Board, Dialogoi

 

Referee

 

Articles

• Gnomon; Mnemosyne; Phronesis; Ancient Philosophy; Apeiron, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy; The Philosophical Review; The Australasian Journal of Philosophy; Transactions of the American Philological Association; Philosophy and Phenomenological Research; Philosophical Research; Classical Philology; Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie; Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy; Mind; Dialectica; Journal of the History of Philosophy; Ancient Philosophy; British Journal for the History of Philosophy; Journal of Hellenic Studies

Books

• Oxford University Press,  Cambridge University Press, Edinburgh University Press, Wadsworth, Routledge, Palgrave Macmillan
• Referee for the National Endowment for the Humanities
• Referee for the Fulbright Commission
• Referee for the Swiss National Science Foundation
• Chair, Selection Committee, Fundaçiã para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugual

 

Areas of Specialisation

• Ancient Philosophy, Metaphysics

 

Areas of Competence

• Philosophy of Mind, Medieval Philosophy, Philosophy and Literature

 

 

Citizenship

• Dual National: United Kingdom and United States