Julia Annas

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Julia Elizabeth Annas (born June 13, 1946 ) is an American philosopher and historian of philosophy .

Life

After studying philosophy at Oxford University and Harvard University , Annas received a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1972. PhD . She then was a Fellow and Tutor at St. Hugh's College , Oxford for fifteen years . Apart from a year at Columbia University (1991–1992), she has since been Regents Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona . In addition, she has held a number of visiting professorships in the USA and Europe. Annas is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a co-founder and advisory board member of the annual Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy and co-editor of the Oxford Aristotle Studies series . She has been an elected member of the American Philosophical Society since 2013 . She is an external member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences .

Annas works on all aspects of ancient Greek philosophy , especially ethics , psychology and epistemology . Among the authors, she paid special attention to Plato , Aristotle , Sextus Empiricus and the ancient skeptics, as well as Cicero .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • An Introduction to Plato's Republic. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1981, second edition 1984.
    • French translation: Introduction à la Republique de Platon. Préface de Jacques Brunschwig . Traduit by Béatrice Han. Presses Universitaires de France 1993.
    • Modern Greek translation: Εισαγωγή στην Πολιτεία του Πλάτωνα. Μετάφραση: Χρυσούλα Γραμμένου, επιμέλεια: Χρήστος Ζαφειρόπουλος, Πάρις Μπουρλάκις. Καλέντης, Αθήνα 2006 (Μύθοι και Λόγοι, 3). - (With a new introduction)
  • (Ed., With Jonathan Barnes ): The Modes of Skepticism. Cambridge University Press, 1985.
    • Japanese translation: Iwanami Shoten, Tokyo, 1990.
  • Hellenistic Philosophy of Mind. University of California Press, 1992.
  • The Morality of Happiness. Oxford University Press, 1993.
    • Italian translation: La Morale della Felicità. Traduzione di Matteo Andolf. Vita e Pensiero, Milan, 1998.
  • Platonic Ethics, Old and New. Cornell University Press 1999.
  • Ancient Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000 (Very Short Introduction series).
    • Brief introduction to ancient philosophy. Translated from the English. by Cordula Bachmann. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8252-3201-6 .
    • Translations into Chinese, Spanish, Japanese and Dutch.
  • Voices of Ancient Philosophy. A collection of introductory readings. Oxford University Press (America), 2000.
  • (Ed., With Christopher Rowe ): New Perspectives on Plato, Modern and Ancient. Harvard University Press, 2002.
  • Plato: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003 (Very Short Introduction series).
  • Intelligent Virtue. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2011.

Text editions

  • Aristotle's Metaphysics M and N, translated with introductory essay and philosophical commentary. Oxford, Clarendon Aristotle Series, 1976, corrected reprint 1987.
    • Italian translation: Interpretazione dei libri MN della “Metafisica” di Aristotle. Vita e Pensiero, Milan 1992.
  • with Jonathan Barnes: Sextus Empiricus, Outlines of Skepticism. Translation with notes Cambridge University Press, 1994. Reprinted with a new introduction by Jonathan Barnes. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1999 (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy).
  • with Robin Waterfield: Plato's Statesman. Translation by Robin Waterfield, with Introduction and notes by Julia Annas. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995 (Cambridge Texts in Political Thought).
    • Chinese translation: China University of Political Science and Law 2002.
  • with Raphael Woolf: Cicero, On Moral Ends. Translated by Raphael Woolf, with Introduction and Notes by Julia Annas. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2001 (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy).

items

  • Aristotle and Kant on Morality and Practical Reasoning , in: Aristotle, Kant & The Stoics. Ed. S. Ergstrom and J. Whiting. Cambridge 1996.
  • Virtue and Eudaimonism , in: Virtue and Vice. Ed. E. Paul, J. Jaul and F. Miller. Cambridge 1998.
  • Prudence and Morality in Ancient and Modern Ethics , in: Ethics, January 1995.
  • Epicurus on Agency , in: Passions and Perceptions , Cambridge 1993.
  • The Good Life and the Good Lives of Others, in: The Good Life and the Human Good . Cambridge, 1992.
  • Plato the Skeptic , in: Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Suppl. Vol. 1992: Methods of Interpreting Plato and his Dialogues . Clarendon Press, Oxford, pp. 43-72.
  • Plato's Myths of Judgment. In: Phronesis 27, 1982, pp. 119-143.

literature

  • Virtue and Happiness: Essays in Honor of Julia Annas. Edited by Rachana Kamtekar. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2012 (Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy: Supplementary Volume).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member History: Julia Annas. American Philosophical Society, accessed April 11, 2018 (with a short biography).
personal data
SURNAME Annas, Julia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Annas, Julia Elizabeth (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American philosopher and historian of philosophy
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1946