Terence Irwin

Terence Irwin

Terence Irwin (born 21 April 1947, in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland) is a scholar and philosopher specializing in ancient Greek philosophy and the history of ethics (i.e. the history of Western moral philosophy in ancient, medieval, and modern times).

Since 2007, he has been the Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Oxford, and Fellow of Keble College, Oxford. From 1975 until 2007, he was at Cornell University, where he has been Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy and Humane Letters (from 1995), Professor of Classics (from 1992), and Professor of Philosophy (from 1982). Previously, he was Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University (1972-1975). He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Education

Terence Irwin was an undergraduate at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he graduated with a BA (first-class honours) in Literae Humaniores (Classics, Philosophy and Ancient History) in 1969. He then studied at Princeton University, where he graduated with a PhD in Philosophy in 1973.

Publications

*"Plato’s Moral Theory". Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977.
*"Plato’s Gorgias" (translation and notes). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979.
*"Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics" (translation and notes). Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1985.
*"Aristotle’s First Principles". Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988.
*"Classical Thought". OPUS Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988.
*"Plato’s Ethics". Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
*"The Development of Ethics", Vol. 1 (from Socrates to the Reformation). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
*"The Development of Ethics", Vol. 2 (from Suarez to Rousseau). Oxford: Oxford University Press (publication expected 2008).

In addition, Irwin has published almost 100 essays and articles in journals and volumes of conference proceedings. Volume 3 of "The Development of Ethics" (which is under contract with Oxford University Press) is currently in preparation.

External links

*Terence Irwin’s home page (http://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/members/terence_irwin) at the University of Oxford’s Faculty of Philosophy
*Terence Irwin’s home page (http://www.arts.cornell.edu/phil/people/faculty/?id=10/) at Cornell University’s Sage School of Philosophy


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