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This volume, the twelfth year of published proceedings, contains eight papers and commentaries presented to the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy during the academic year 1995-96. The commentators take up the themes of these papers, in some instances developing and building on the main argument, while in others offering direct challenges to the principal author's thesis.
Info autore
John J. Cleary is Professor of Philosophy at Boston College, and Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at NUI, Maynooth (Ireland). He received his B.A. and M.A. from University College, Dublin, and his Ph.D. from Boston University in 1982. He was director of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy from 1984 to 1988, and is the founding general editor of this series of proceedings. He has published extensively on ancient philosophy, including a monograph on
Aristotle and Mathematics (Leiden, 1995). Currently he is studying the role of
paideia in ancient political thought.
William Wians is Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Boston University College. He writes on ancient philosophyt, particularly Aristotle's scientific interests. He has edited
Aristotle's Philosophical Development: Problems and Prospects (1996) and is co-editor of the BACAP Proceedings. He is fomer director of the BACAP. Previously he has taught at the College of the Holy Cross, Boston University, the University of Chicago, and Notre Dame.
Riassunto
Volume XII contains papers and commentaries presented to the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy during academic year 1995-96.
Relazione
"The Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy is known for scholarship of the highest caliber."
F. A. Grabowski, (Rogers State University) in CHOICE, vol. 53, no. 5 (2016)
