Early Greek Philosophy

Contributors

Contributors Patricia Curd is professor of philosophy at Purdue University. She is the author of The Legacy of Parmenides: Eleatic Monism and Later Presocratic Thought; Anaxagoras of Clazomenae: Fragments; Text and Translation with Notes and Essays, part of the Phoenix Presocratics series; and co-editor (with Daniel Graham) of The Oxford Handbook of Presocratic Philosophy. Her current project is a study of divinity, intelligibility, and human thought in the Presocratics. Kenneth Dorter is a professor of philosophy at the University of Guelph and has published extensively on the history of philosophy, including three books on Plato: Plato’s Phaedo: An Interpretation; Form and Good in Plato’s Eleatic Dialogues: The Parmenides, Theaetetus, Sophist, and Statesman; and The Transformation of Plato’s Republic. His essay on Parmenides , “Appearance and Reality in Parmenides,” is published electronically in Metaphysics, edited by Mark Pestana. Daniel W. Graham is A. O. Smoot Professor of Philosophy at Brigham Young University and president of the International Association for Presocratic Studies. He is the author of Explaining the Cosmos: The Ionian Tradition of Scientific Philosophy, and author, editor, or translator of five earlier volumes on ancient philosophy. He has recently co-edited The Oxford Handbook of Presocratic Philosophy with Patricia Curd, and he has a two-volume, bilingual edition of the Presocratic philosophers, The Texts of Early Greek Philosophy, from Cambridge University Press. Carl A. Huffman is professor of classical studies at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. His two books were both published by Cambridge University Press: Philolaus of Croton: Pythagorean and Presocratic and Archytas of Tarentum: Pythagorean, Philosopher and Mathematician King. He has published numerous articles and chapters on the Presocratics and 221 222  Contributors Pythagoreans and has contributed the articles on the Pythagoreans to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (online). He has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Howard Foundation. He was a visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Charles Kahn is professor of philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania . He is the author of Anaximander and the Origins of Greek Cosmology ; The Verb “Be” in Ancient Greek; The Art and Thought of Heraclitus; Plato and the Socratic Dialogue; and Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans. J. H. Lesher is professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Xenophanes of Colophon; The Greek Philosophers: Greek Texts with Notes and Commentary; Plato’s Symposium: Issues in Interpretation and Reception, with Debra Nails and Frisbee Sheffield ; and “Essays on Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics: Papers from the 2009 Duke-UNC Conference” (a special edition of the journal Apeiron). He is also the author or more than sixty articles on topics relating to ancient Greek philosophy. John C. McCarthy is dean of the School of Philosophy and associate professor at the Catholic University of America. In addition to publications on Descartes, Pascal, and reductionism in modern natural science, he has written on Augustine, Aquinas, and Husserl. He edited the volume of lectures Modern Enlightenment and the Rule of Reason. Alexander P. D. Mourelatos is professor of philosophy and classics at the University of Texas at Austin, where he founded and for twenty-five years directed the Joint Classics-Philosophy Graduate Program in Ancient Philosophy. His publications span the fields of classics, philosophy, history of science, and linguistics, with early Greek philosophy (sixth to fifth centuries B.C.) as his dominant concern. Recipient of an honorary doctorate in his native Greece (University of Athens, 1994), he was in 2000 made corresponding member of the Academy of Athens, the highest academic honor for expatriate Greeks. Kurt Pritzl, OP, was dean of the School of Philosophy and associate professor at the Catholic University of America until his passing in 2011. Contributors  223 He specialized in ancient Greek philosophy and the theory of knowledge. He published articles on early Greek philosophy, on dialectic and received opinion in Plato and Aristotle, and on Aristotle’s cognitional theory and account of the soul. He also published on the role of philosophy in the intellectual and spiritual formation of seminary students. Richard Velkley is the Celia Scott Weatherhead Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Tulane University. He is the author of Freedom and the End of Reason: On the Moral Foundation of Kant’s Critical Philosophy and Being after Rousseau: Philosophy and Culture in Question, and the editor of Dieter Henrich, The Unity of Reason: Essays...