Daniel W. Graham

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Daniel Watkins Graham (born March 28, 1948 ) has been Abraham Owen Smoot Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at Brigham Young University (BYU) since 1991 .

Graham received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina in 1970 with a degree in philosophy; 1975 followed the Master of Arts at BYU in classical antiquity . In 1980 he received his PhD in philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin . After brief teaching at Grinnell College in Grinnell (Iowa) from 1980–1982 (as Assistant Professor of Philosophy) and 1982–1984 (as Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Classics) and at Rice Universityin Houston (Texas) from 1984–1986 (as Assistant Professor of Philosophy) he has been working at BYU since 1986 (first as Associate Professor of Philosophy). Further stations were the College Clare Hall of the University of Cambridge (Visiting Fellow from 1988-1989) and Yale University (Visiting Professor of Philosophy in autumn 1995).

Graham is married and has two children.

Graham's main research area is ancient philosophy ( pre-Socratics , Aristotle ). He has appeared as an author, editor and translator of various monographs and articles in scientific journals.

Fonts (selection)

  • Aristotle's Two Systems . Oxford, Oxford UP 1987.
  • (Ed.): Gregory Vlastos , Studies in Greek Philosophy . 2 vols. Princeton 1995.
  • (Transl., Comm.): Aristotle's Physics, Book VIII. Translated with a Commentary by Daniel W. Graham (Clarendon Aristotle Series). Oxford University Press, Oxford 1999, ISBN 0-19-824092-9 .
  • (Ed. With Victor Caston): Presocratic Philosophy: Essays in Honor of Alexander Mourelatos . Aldershot 2002.
  • Explaining the Cosmos: the Ionian Tradition of Scientific Philosophy. Princeton 2006.
  • (Ed. With Patricia Curd): The Oxford Handbook of Presocratic Philosophy. Oxford, Oxford UP 2008.
  • (Ed., Transl.): The Texts of Early Greek Philosophy. 2 vols. Cambridge 2010.
  • Science Before Socrates: Parmenides, Anaxagoras, and the New Astronomy. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2013.

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SURNAME Graham, Daniel W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Graham, Daniel Watkins (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American philosopher and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1948