Classics Department - Faculty

Ph.D. (Classics, 1993) University of California, Berkeley

M.A. (Classics, 1986) University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

B.A. Hon. (Classics, 1985) University of Western Ontario, London, Canada ^ Areas of Specialization:

Greek Philosophy, Aristotle, Greek Intellectual History ^Employment:

Associate Professor, Department of Classics, University of Oregon (2000-present)

Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, University of Oregon (1994-2000)

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, University of Oregon (1990-1994) ^ Prizes and Awards

Williams Award with Barbara Altman and Karen Sprague (2005)

Williams Award (assisting John Nicols and Greg Bothun) 2004

Bowerman Student Award (2002)

Faculty Vitality Grant (2001)

Alternative for Summer Reseach Award (1997)

Junior Faculty Development Award (for travel to conference, 1996)

New Faculty Summer Stipend (1995)

Greenfield Library Award (1992) ^ Papers Presented

“The Role of Per se Abstraction in the Unity of an Aristotelian Science” at the Canadian Philosophical Association meeting, London, Canada, May 28, 2005.

“The Contexts of Rationality: the Ps.-Galenic de Decubitu” Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest, February 18, 2005.

‘The Birth of Science in the Spirit of Tragedy’ lecture in Shifting European Cultural Movements, University of Oregon, October 26, 2004.

‘William of Ockham as an Interpreter of Aristotle’s Theory of the Unity of Science’ lecture at the Aristotle and Aristotelianism Conference, Victoria, B.C. October 29, 2004.

'Scientific Unity in Aristotle's Weather Treatise' at the Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest, Seattle, WA. April 3, 2004

Response to Richard Tierney 'Nature and Natural Motion in Aristotle's Physics at the American Philosophical Association, Pasadena, CA, March 26, 2004

'Sources of Unity in Meteorologica I-III' at the American Philological Association, San Francisco, CA, Jan. 3, 2004

'Is Plato's Republic VI the Target of Aristotle's Posterior Analytics I.32 ' at the American Philological Association, New Orleans, LA, Jan. 5, 2003

'What is Aristotle Talking About? The Philosophical Superfluity of the Subject Genus' at the American Philological Association, Philadelphia, PA, Jan. 4, 2002

‘Definition and Property in Aristotle's Treatment of Friendship’ at the Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest, Victoria, B.C. April 5, 2000

"Analogy in Aristotle's Biology" invited paper at the International Conference on Aristotle's Biology and Ancient Medicine, London, England, July 15-18, 1996

Invited response to Eve Cole "Brutishness in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics" at American Philosophical Association, Seattle, WA, Apr. 5, 1996

"Bad Tragedies and Healthy Climates: An Aristotelian Account of Interdisciplinarity" Invited lecture at Reed College, Portland, OR, Dec. 7, 1995.

"Speusippus on Knowledge and Division" invited lecture at the International Conference on Aristotle's Biology, Bad Homburg, Germany, July 24-28, 1995.

"From Classification to Demonstration: Aristotle's Debt to Speusippus" at the American Philological Association, Atlanta, GA, Dec 29, 1994.

"According to its Own Kind: Analogy and Imitation in Aristotle's Biological Works" at the Classical Association of the Atlantic States, Princeton, NJ, Apr. 22, 1993.

"Art and Nature: An Analogy in Aristotle's Physics II" at Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest, Spokane, WA, Apr. 4, 1991. ^ Publications:

	Faculty


	P.Lowell Bowditch Cristina G. Calhoon José M. González Jeffrey M. Hurwit Mary K. Jaeger John Nicols Steven Shankman Malcolm Wilson


	Dr. Wilson Graduate Advisor PLC 815. Phone 541-346-4155. E-mail: mwilson@uoregon.edu





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