澳客竞彩

I am a professor of philosophy at 澳客竞彩 and also an associate member of the department of History and Classical Studies; I do about two thirds of my teaching at 澳客竞彩 in Philosophy, one sixth in Classics, and one sixth in Islamic Studies. I am also an honorary professor of philosophy, and a member of the faculty of the Graduate Program in Ancient Philosophy, at the Humboldt University in Berlin, where I held a regular chair from 2011 to 2015. I normally spend every summer in Berlin, where summer is a regular semester, and I usually teach one course there each summer semester, in English, as well as supervising graduate students at both universities. Many聽of my papers can be found on .听

I first studied mathematics, taking an MA in 1982 and a PhD in 1985, both from the Johns Hopkins University, and then philosophy, taking an MA in 1984 and a PhD in 1989, both from the University of Chicago; along the way I also took courses in classics, Arabic and Sanskrit. I taught at Princeton University from 1989 to 1992 before joining the faculty at 澳客竞彩. My main areas of research are in ancient Greek philosophy (with current special interests in Aristotle and in neo-Platonism), in medieval Arabic and Latin philosophy, and in the history and philosophy of mathematics.

I am currently revising a book-manuscript entitled聽The Aim and the Argument of Aristotle's聽Metaphysics, a draft of which can be found on the .听I am also revising a draft of a book called聽Feuerbach's Theorem: an Essay on Euclidean and Algebraic Geometry. I am also working, with Calvin Normore, on a book to be called聽Nominalism and Realism, from Boethius to Hobbes,听and am editing and translating the pseudo-Aristotelian On Melissus, Xenophanes and Gorgias for the Loeb Classical Library volume "Aristotle": Minor Works, edited by Robert Mayhew.听I am also publishing a series of articles on the logical syntax of being and unity (notably on the origin and development of the idea that existence is a second-order predicate) in medieval Arabic and Latin philosophy, which I hope eventually to collect as a book. I am also engaged in shorter research projects on pre-Socratic philosophy (Anaxagoras and especially Empedocles), on Aristotle's聽Analytics,听Physics, and聽Poetics, on neo-Platonic metaphysics, on ancient music theory and arithmetic, and on Arabic modal syllogistic.