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Mr Myles Burnyeat FBA

Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected
1984
Year of birth
1939
Year of death
2019
Subjects
Philosophy
Sections
Philosophy
Website
http://www.all-souls.ox.ac.uk/people.php?personid=179

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 Jane Heal FBA

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