Contributors

Peter Adamson is Professor of Late Antique and Arabic Philosophy at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. He has edited numerous volumes on ancient and Arabic philosophy and is the author of The Arabic Plotinus (2002), Al-Kindi (2007) and A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps: Classical Philosophy (2014).

Vishwa Adluri is Adjunct Associate Professor at Hunter College, New York. He is the author of Parmenides, Plato and Mortal Philosophy: Return from Transcendence (2011) and the editor of Philosophy and Salvation in Greek Religion (2013). He has also produced a translation of Arbogast Schmitt’s Die Moderne und PlatonModernity and Plato: Two Paradigms of Rationality (2012) and a new book on the relationship of contemporary scholarship to ancient Indian thought, The Nay Science: A History of German Indology (2014, with J. Bagchee).

Sara Ahbel-Rappe is Professor of Greek and Latin at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is the author of Reading Neoplatonism: Non-discursive Thinking in the Texts of Plotinus, Proclus, and Damascius (2010), Socrates: A Guide for the Perplexed (2009), and a translation of Damascius’ Doubts and Solutions Concerning First Principles (2010). She is also co-editor of A Companion to Socrates (2009, with R. Kamtekar).

Gwenaëlle Aubry is a researcher at the CNRS (UPR 76/Centre Jean Pépin). She is the editor of L’Excellence de la vie: Sur l’Ethique à Nicomaque et l’Ethique à Eudème d’Aristote (2002) and Le moi et l’intériorité (2008, with F. Ildefonse); and the author of Plotin: Traité 53 (I, 1) (2004); Dieu sans la puissance. Dunamis et Energeia chez Aristote et chez Plotin (2006) and Porphyre: Sur la manière dont l’embryon reçoit l’âme (2012, with L. Brisson, M.-H. Congourdeau, F. Hudry et al.).

Han Baltussen is Hughes Professor of Classics at the University of Adelaide and Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He is the author of Theophrastus Against the Presocratics and Plato (2000) and Philosophy and Exegesis in Simplicius: The Methodology of a Commentator (2008), editor of Philosophy, Science and Exegesis in Greek, Latin and Arabic Commentaries (2004, with P. Adamson and M. Stone) and of Greek and Roman Consolations: Eight Studies of a Tradition and its Afterlife (2013), and translator of Simplicius’ Commentary on Aristotle’s Physics 1.5–9 (with M. Chase, M. Atkinson and I. Mueller).

Luc Brisson is Director of Research (Emeritus) at the National Centre for Scientific Research (Paris, France). His seminal publications on both Plato and Plotinus, including bibliographies, translations and commentaries, include Platon, le mots et les mythes (1982; published in English as Plato the Myth Maker, 1999) and Einführung in die Philosophie des Mythos I (1996; published in English as How Philosophers Saved Myths: Allegorical Interpretation and Classical Mythology, 2004). He has edited Platon. Oeuvres completes (2008) and Plotin: Traités, 9 vols (2002–10, with J.-F. Pradeau).

Riccardo Chiaradonna is Associate Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Roma Tre University. He is the author of Sostanza movimento analogia: Plotino critico di Aristotele (2002) and Plotino (2009), and editor of Physics and Philosophy of Nature in Greek Neoplatonism (2009, with F. Trabattoni) and Universals in Ancient Philosophy (2013, with G. Galluzzo).

Bernard Collette-Ducic is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Université Laval. He is the author of Plotin et l’ordonnancement de l’être (2007), “Sommeil, éveil et attention chez Plotin” (2011–12), “Le stoïcisme dans l’Ad Gaurum” (2011) and “On the Chrysippean thesis that the virtues are poia” (2009). He is currently preparing a new translation with commentary of Plotinus’ On Fate as well as a book on the Stoic conception of Providence.

Kevin Corrigan is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities and Director of the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts at Emory University. He is the author of Evagrius and Gregory: Mind, Soul and Body in the Fourth Century (2009) and Reason, Faith and Otherness in Neoplatonic and Early Christian Thought (2013), and editor of Religion and Philosophy in the Platonic and Neoplatonic Traditions: From Antiquity to the Early Medieval Period (Pagan, Jewish, Christian, Islamic, and Comparative Eastern Perspectives) (2012, with John D. Turner and Peter Wakefield); Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World: Essays in Honour of John D. Turner (2001, with T. Rasimus, in collaboration with D. Burns, L. Jenott and Z. Mazur).

Dimitar Y. Dimitrov is Lecturer in Byzantine and Medieval Balkan History and Culture at St Cyril and Methodius University in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria. He is the author of many publications in Bulgarian, including Pagans and Christians in the IV Century: Modes of Behaviour (2000), Philosophy, Culture and Politics in Late Antiquity (2005, in Bulgarian) and The Dark Ages of Byzantium (2005) and a co-author in the general volume Byzantium and the Byzantine World (2011).

Franco Ferrari is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Salerno. He is coordinator of the Editorial Board of the International Plato Studies and member of the Academia Platonica Septima. He is the author of Dio, idea e materia: la struttura del cosmo in Plutarco di Cheronea (1995), I miti di Platone (2006), L’esercizio della ragione nel mondo classico (2005, with P. L. Donini) and the translation with commentary of Plato’s Parmenides (2004) and Theaetetus (2011). With I. Männlein-Robert, he has prepared the section on Middle Platonism in the new edition of Grundriss der Geschichte der Philosophie (2015).

John F. Finamore is Professor of Classics at the University of Iowa and the editor of The International Journal of the Platonic Tradition. He is the author of Iamblichus and the Theory of the Vehicle of the Soul (1985) and Iamblichus’ De Anima: Text, Translation, and Commentary (2002, with J. M. Dillon).

Lloyd P. Gerson is Professor of Philosophy in the University of Toronto. He is the author, most recently, of From Plato to Platonism (2013), a commentary on and translation of Plotinus’ treatise V.5, That the Intelligibles are not External to the Intellect (2013), Ancient Epistemology (2009) and Aristotle and Other Platonists (2005). He is the editor of the Cambridge History of Philosophy in Late Antiquity (2010).

Jens Halfwassen is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Seminar of Philosophy at the University of Heidelberg, Member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, and Founding Member of the Academia Platonica Septima Monasteriensis. He is also the editor of Philosophische Rundschau (with B. Waldenfels and P. Stekeler-Weithofer). He is the author of Plotin und der Neuplatonismus (2004); Der Aufstieg zum Einen. Untersuchungen zu Platon und Plotin (1992, 2nd edn 2006); Geist und Selbstbewusstsein. Studien zu Plotin und Numenios (1994); Hegel und der spätantike Neuplatonismus (1999, 2nd edn 2005).

Péter Lautner is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest. He has published widely on Platonic epistemology and theories of the soul, and contributed many volumes to the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle project.

Alessandro Linguiti is Associate Professor of Ancient Philosophy in the Department of History and Cultural Heritage at the University of Siena and a member of the Academia Platonica Septima Monasteriensis. His main publications are L’ultimo platonismo greco: Principi e conoscenza (1990); Anonymous, Commentary on the Parmenides, in Corpus dei papiri filosofici greci e latini III (1995: 63–202); Plotin, Traité 36 (I,5) (2007); and Proclo, Teologia Platonica (2007, with M. Casaglia).

Marije Martijn is Associate Professor of Ancient and Patristic Philosophy at the VU University Amsterdam. She is author of numerous publications on Proclus, ancient aesthetics and metaphysics among which is Proclus on Nature: Philosophy of Nature and its Methods in Proclus’ Commentary on Plato’s Timaeus (2010).

Dermot Moran is Professor of Philosophy at University College Dublin and Sir Walter Murdoch Adjunct Professor at Murdoch University. He is founding editor of the International Journal of Philosophical Studies, and currently President of the International Federation of Philosophical Studies (FISP). He is the author of The Philosophy of John Scottus Eriugena: A Study of Idealism in the Middle Ages (1989), Introduction to Phenomenology (2000), Edmund Husserl: Founder of Phenomenology (2005) and Husserl’s Crisis of the European Sciences: An Introduction (2012). He has published widely on John Scottus Eriugena, Meister Eckhart and Nicolas of Cusa.

Jean-Marc Narbonne is Professor of Philosophy at Laval University (Quebec). He is responsible for the new edition and translation of Plotinus in the Budé Collection (Collection des Universités de France), and has published extensively on the Neoplatonic tradition, including Plotinus in Dialogue with the Gnostics (2011); Levinas and the Greek Heritage (2006); Hénologie, ontologie et ereignis: Plotin – Proclus – Heidegger (2001); and La métaphysique de Plotin (2001).

Dominic J. O’Meara is Professor Emeritus of Metaphysics and Ancient Philosophy, University of Fribourg (Switzerland). His works include: Pythagoras Revived: Mathematics and Philosophy in Late Antiquity (1989), Plotinus: An Introduction to the Enneads (1993) and Platonopolis: Platonic Political Philosophy in Late Antiquity (2003).

Sarah Pessin is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Judaic Studies at the University of Denver. She has published widely in areas of medieval philosophy and Neoplatonism, and is the author of Ibn Gabirol’s Theology of Desire: Matter and Method in Jewish Medieval Neoplatonism (2013).

Pauliina Remes is University Lecturer in Philosophy at Uppsala University (Sweden). She is the author of Plotinus on Self: The Philosophy of the “We” (2007) and Neoplatonism (2008), and the editor of Ancient Philosophy of the Self (2008, with J. Sihvola) and Consciousness: From Perception to Reflection in the History of Philosophy (2007, with S. Heinämaa and V. Lähteenmäki).

Gretchen Reydams-Schils is Professor in the Program of Liberal Studies at the University of Notre Dame, with concurrent appointments in Philosophy and Theology. She is the author of Demiurge and Providence: Stoic and Platonist Readings of Plato’s Timaeus (1999) and The Roman Stoics: Self, Responsibility, and Affection (2005). She is currently working on a monograph about Calcidius.

Frederic M. Schroeder is Professor Emeritus at Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada. His publications include Two Greek Aristotelian Commentators on the Intellect: The De Intellectu attributed to Alexander of Aphrodisias and Themistius’ Paraphrase on Aristotle De Anima 3.4–8. Introduction, Translation, Commentary and Notes (1990, with R. B. Todd) and Form and Transformation: A Study in the Philosophy of Plotinus (1992).

Svetla Slaveva-Griffin is Associate Professor of Classics and a core faculty in the History and Philosophy of Science Program at the Florida State University. She has published on a wide range of topics in ancient philosophy, among which is Plotinus on Number (2009).

Andrew Smith is Professor Emeritus of Classics, University College Dublin, and Associate Director of the Plato Centre, Trinity College Dublin. His publications include Porphyry’s Place in the Neoplatonic Tradition (1974), the Teubner edition of Porphyry’s fragments (1993) and Plotinus, Porphyry and Iamblichus: Philosophy and Religion in Neoplatonism (2011).

Richard Sorabji is an Honorary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. He is author of three books on the history of philosophy of the physical universe, and of six on the history of philosophy of mind and ethics, the last two being Gandhi and the Stoics: Modern Experiments on Ancient Values (2012) and Moral Conscience through the Ages, Fifth Century BCE to the Present (2014). He is editor of 100 volumes so far in the series Ancient Commentators on Aristotle, author of a three-volume Sourcebook on them, and editor of two explanatory books about them with a third in preparation.

Suzanne Stern-Gillet is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Bolton and Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Manchester. She is the author of Aristotle’s Philosophy of Friendship (1995) and editor of Reading Ancient Texts, 2 vols (2007, with K. Corrigan). Her collection on Ancient and Medieval Concepts of Friendship, edited with G. Gurtler, is forthcoming. Currently she is working on a monograph on Plato’s Ion and is preparing a translation and commentary on Plotinus’ tractate On the Virtues (I.2[19]) for the series The Enneads of Plotinus.

Harold Tarrant is an Honorary Professor at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He is the author of Plato’s First Interpreters (2000), Recollecting Plato’s Meno (2005), Proclus’ Commentary on Plato’s Timaeus: Volume 1, Book 1 (2010) and editor of Reading Plato in Antiquity (2006, with D. Baltzly) and Alcibiades and the Socratic Lover-Educator (2012, with M. Johnson).

John D. Turner is Cotner Professor of Religious Studies and Charles J. Mach University Professor of Classics and History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the author of Sethian Gnosticism and the Platonic Tradition (2002), a principal contributor to the English and French language critical editions of seven of the Nag Hammadi texts, and editor of Platonisms: Ancient, Modern, and Postmodern (2007, with K. Corrigan) and Rethinking Plato’s Parmenides and its Platonic, Gnostic and Patristic Reception (2010).

Robbert M. van den Berg is University Lecturer in Ancient Philosophy at Leiden University. His publications include Proclus’ Hymns (2001) and Proclus’ Commentary on the Cratylus in Context: Ancient Theories of Language and Naming (2008).

Panayiota Vassilopoulou is Lecturer in the Philosophy Department at the University of Liverpool. She is the editor of Epistemology in Late Antique Philosophy (2009, with S. R. L. Clark).

James Wilberding is Professor in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy at the Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany. He is the author of Plotinus’ Cosmology (2006), Philoponus: On the Eternity of the World Books 12–18 (2006) and Porphyry: To Gaurus on How Embryos are Ensouled and On What is in Our Power (2011), and editor of Neoplatonism and the Philosophy of Nature (2012, with C. Horn) and Philosophical Themes in Galen (2014, with P. Adamson and R. Hansberger).