Alexander Phoebus Dionysiou Mourelatos

Alexander Phoebus Dionysiou Mourelatos , mostly Alexander PD Mourelatos , Greek Αλέξανδρος Φοίβος Διονυσίου Μουρελάτος (* 1936 in Athens ) is an American historian of philosophy of Greek origin.

Life

Mourelatos attended Athens College , a ten-year American school in Athens. He came to the USA with a scholarship from Yale University . He received his Ph.D. from Yale in 1964. with a dissertation on The Philosophy of Parmenides and worked as an instructor for two years . During a scholarship at the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin , Madison (1964/1965), on which he worked with Friedrich Solmsen , he accepted a professorship at the University of Texas at Austin in 1965 .

Two years later he was a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey (1967–1968), where he worked with Harold Cherniss . At the same time he attended seminars by Gregory Vlastos and David J. Furley at Princeton University . Following the example of Gregory Vlastos' connection of ancient philosophy and classics, Mourelatos later founded the Joint Classics-Philosophy Graduate Program in Ancient Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin as a professor of philosophy and classical philology .

This was followed by fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities (1968 and 1982/1983) and the American Council of Learned Societies (1973/1974) as well as at the Center for Hellenic Studies , Washington, DC (1973–1974). He was Visiting Professor at Carleton College (1974) and Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University (1978 and 1991). The John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (1988/1989) was a highlight . Finally, the University of Crete invited him several times as a visiting professor (1998, 2000, 2001). Mourelatos has now retired.

Awards

Honorary Doctorate from the University of Athens , 1994
Corresponding member of the Academy of Athens since 1999
Honorary doctorate from the University of Crete, 2017

Research priorities

Mourelatos dealt with ancient philosophy , mainly with the pre-Socratics and with Parmenides as well as his view of his Ionic predecessors, but also published numerous essays from ancient metaphysics and philosophy of language to astronomy and meteorology .

Fonts (selection)

The Route of Parmenides . Yale UP, 1974.
(Ed.): The Pre-Socratics: A Collection of Critical Essays. Doubleday 1974, ND Princeton University Press 1993.

literature

Victor Caston, Daniel W. Graham (Eds.), Presocratic Philosophy: Essays in Honor of Alexander Mourelatos. Ashgate, 2002; ND Routledge, London and New York 2016 - Contains biography in the introduction, pp. vii – ix, and list of publications Ss. xi – xv, (excerpts online)

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Επίτιμος διδάκτορας ο Μουρελάτος - Honorary Doctorate University of Crete (with photography)

personal data
SURNAME	Mourelatos, Alexander Phoebus Dionysiou
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Αλέξανδρος Φοίβος Διονυσίου Μουρελάτος (Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American historian of philosophy
DATE OF BIRTH	1936
PLACE OF BIRTH	Athens

[1] Επίτιμος διδάκτορας ο Μουρελάτος - Honorary Doctorate University of Crete (with photography)