Mr Myles Burnyeat FBA

Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected
1984
Year of birth
1939
Year of death
2019
Subjects
Philosophy
Sections
Philosophy

Summary

British Academy appointments Member of Council 1993 - 1996

Past appointments

All Souls College University of Oxford Emeritus Fellow

1996 - 2006

University of Cambridge Lecturer in Classics, then Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy

1978 - 1996

University College London Lecturer in Philosophy

1964 - 1978

Publications

Aristotle's Divine Intellect (2008)

A Map of Metaphysics Zeta (2001)\

Culture and Society in Plato's Republic (1999)\

The Theaetetus of Plato (1990)\

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Professor Lucy O'Brien FBA

Philosophy of Mind, Action Theory, Moral Psychology and Social Philosophy. A particular concern with varieties of self-consciousness.

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Professor Cecilia Trifogli FBA

The Medieval Latin reception of Aristotle's philosophy in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, especially natural philosophy, rational psychology, and metaphysics; critical editions of Medieval Latin philosophical texts

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