Myles Frederic Burnyeat

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Myles Frederic Burnyeat CBE FBA ( January 1, 1939 - September 20, 2019 ) was a British philosopher and historian of philosophy . He was one of the world's leading specialists in the field of ancient philosophy .

Life

After attending Bryanston School in Blandford Forum , Dorset , and the National Service in the Royal Navy , Burnyeat earned a BA in Philosophy from King's College , Cambridge . He continued his studies in philosophy with Bernard Williams at University College London . In 1964 he became Assistant Lecturer in Philosophy there, and in 1965 Lecturer. In 1978 he found employment as a Lecturer in Classics at Cambridge University and as a College Lecturer in Philosophy. At the same time he was a fellow of the newly founded Robinson College until 1996 . From 1984 to 1996 he was the fifth Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Cambridge University. He then went to All Souls College , Oxford as a Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy , and returned to Robinson College in 2006. Guest professorships and lectures have taken him to numerous universities, including Harvard University , Cornell University , Princeton University and the University of Chicago .

From 1984 to 2000 he was married to the classical philologist and poet Ruth Padel . From winter 2002 until her death on March 12, 2003, he was married to Heda Segvic , a Croatian historian of philosophy in the field of ancient philosophy. Your essays were edited posthumously by him. Myles Burnyeat died on September 20, 2019.

Awards

In 1984 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy and in 1992 a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . He is also a member of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and the Institut International de Philosophie . From 2005 to 2006 he was President of the Aristotelian Society . In 2007 he was named Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his achievements . In 2012 he was awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters from the University of St Andrews .

Fonts (selection)

  • (Ed. With Ted Honderich ): Philosophy As It Is. Penguin Books, Harmondsworth 1979, ISBN 0-14-022136-0 .
  • (Ed.): Notes on Book Zeta of Aristotle's Metaphysics , being the record by Myles Burnyeat and others of a seminar held in London, 1975–1979. Sub-faculty of Philosophy, Oxford 1979.
  • (Ed. With Jonathan Barnes and Malcolm Schofield ): Doubt and dogmatism: studies in Hellenistic epistemology. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1980, ISBN 0-19-824872-5 .
  • (Ed. With Jonathan Barnes, Jacques Brunschwig and Malcolm Schofield): Science and Speculation: Studies in Hellenistic Theory and Practice. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1982, 2005 reprint, ISBN 0-521-02218-5 .
  • (Ed.): The Skeptical Tradition. University of California Press, Berkeley 1983, ISBN 0-520-04795-8 .
  • (Ed.): Notes on Books Eta and Theta of Aristotle's Metaphysics , being the record by Myles Burnyeat and others of a seminar held in London, 1979–1982. Sub-faculty of Philosophy, Oxford 1984, ISBN 0-905740-27-0 .
  • (Ed.): The Theaetetus of Plato. Hackett, Indianapolis, Cambridge 1990, ISBN 0-87220-159-7 .
  • (Ed. With Michael Frede ): The Original Skeptics. A controversy. Hackett, Indianapolis, Cambridge 1997, ISBN 0-87220-347-6 .
  • Culture and Society in Plato's Republic. (= The Tanner Lectures on Human Value. Delivered at Harvard University December 10-12, 1997). 1999, (online) (PDF).
  • (Ed.): A Map of Metaphysics Zeta. Mathesis Publications, Pittsburgh, PA 2001, ISBN 0-935225-03-X .
  • (Ed.): Heda Segvic, From Protagoras to Aristotle. Essays in Ancient Moral Philosophy. Princeton University Press 2008, ISBN 0-691-13123-6 .
  • Aristotle's Divine Intellect. Marquette University Press, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 2008, ISBN 0-87462-175-5 .
  • Explorations in Ancient and Modern Philosophy. 2 volumes, Cambridge University Press 2012: Volume 1, ISBN 0-521-75072-5 ; Volume 2, ISBN 0-521-75073-3 . - Review by Brad Inwood , Bryn Mawr Classical Review 02/33/2013

literature

  • Dominic Scott (Ed.): Maieusis. Essays in Ancient Philosophy in Honor of Myles Burnyeat. Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York 2007.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Justin Weinberg: Myles Burnyeat (1939-2019). In: Daily Nous. September 23, 2019, accessed on September 23, 2019 .
  2. ^ University of Cambridge, Faculty of Classics: Myles Burnyeat - Faculty of Classics . ( cam.ac.uk [accessed September 24, 2019]).
  3. ^ Angie Hobbs: Myles Burnyeat obituary . In: The Guardian . October 8, 2019, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed October 9, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Burnyeat, Myles Frederic
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British philosopher and historian of philosophy
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1939
DATE OF DEATH 20th September 2019