Gisela Striker

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Gisela Striker (born November 26, 1943 in Germany ) is a German historian of philosophy in the field of ancient philosophy and professor emeritus for philosophy and classics at Harvard University .

Life

After studying philosophy and classical philology in Hamburg, Göttingen and Oxford and completing her doctorate in philosophy at the Georg-August University of Göttingen , she taught philosophy there from 1971 to 1986, initially as a research assistant. In 1979 she completed her habilitation and became an adjunct professor in Göttingen, went to Columbia University in New York in 1986 and to Harvard University in 1989. From 1997 to 2000 she was the sixth Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Cambridge University , England . She returned to Harvard in 2000 and retired in 2011. She has lived in Hamburg since 2012.

Research and Teaching

Striker focused his teaching on Plato and Aristotle , but also considered earlier and later Greek and Roman authors. She published mainly on epistemology and ethics in Hellenistic philosophy ( Stoics , Epicureans , Skeptics ) and on the logic of Aristotle. She is co-editor of the Hypomnemata series. Investigations into antiquity and their afterlife .

Awards

In 1993 she was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Fonts (selection)

  • Peras and Apeiron. The problem of forms in Plato's Philebos (= Hypomnemata . Issue 30). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1970.
  • Κριτήριον τῆς ἀληθείας (= news of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen. Born 1974, number 2). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1974.
  • as edited by Malcolm Schofield : The Norms of Nature. Studies in Hellenistic Ethics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1986.
  • Essays on Hellenistic Epistemology and Ethics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1996 (Review by William O. Stephens, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 97.6.9 ).
  • as ed. with Michael Frede : Rationality in Greek Thought. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1996.
  • Aristotle, Prior analytics Book 1. Translated with an introduction and commentary. Clarendon Press, Oxford 2009.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb127001676
  2. biography