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Expertise
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Work
Work
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)
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Education
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Awards & Honors
Awards & Honors
President, Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, 2012-present
International Association for Presocratic Studies, Executive Council member since 2008
Overseas Visiting Scholar at St. John’s College, Cambridge 1999
Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Christ’s College, Cambridge 2016
Elizabeth A. Whitehead Visiting Professor at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2015
A.H. Coxon’s The Fragments of Parmenides (Parmenides Publishing, 2009), with new translations by Richard McKirahan, won ForeWord Reviews’ 2009 Book of the Year Award in Philosophy.
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship 1998-99
Fulbright Senior Scholar 1998-1999National Endowment for the Humanities awards 1975, 1985, 1990, 1999, 2003
Marshall Scholar at Oxford University 1966-69