ABOUT OUR CONTRIBUTORS

Bernard Collette-Dučić was educated at Université Libre de Bruxelles and is a former post-doctoral researcher of the FRS-FNRS (Belgium). After spending three years doing research in Cambridge and Durham (UK), he is now at Université Sorbonne-Paris IV (Centre Léon Robin) working on ancient Stoicism and providence. With S. Delcomminette, he has edited three volumes of the Revue de Philosophie Ancienne (2006, 24/2, 2006, 25/1 and 25/2) on the Stoic theory of total blending. He is the author of two monographs on Plotinus, Dialectique et hénologie chez Plotin (2002) and Plotin et l’ordonnancement de l’être (2007).

Patricia Curd is Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University. She has published articles on the Presocratics as well as on Plato. She is the author of The Legacy of Parmenides (Princeton, 1998; second edition Parmenides Publishing, 2004) and Anaxagoras of Clazomenae: Fragments, Text, and Translation, with Notes and Essays (University of Toronto Press 2007). With Daniel W. Graham, she is co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Presocratic Philosophy (Oxford, 2008). In 2009-10 she is a Fellow at the National Humanities Center, working on a book on divinity, intelligibility, and human thought in early Greek philosophy.

Pierre Destrée, Ph.D. (1994) in Philosophy, University of Louvain, is research Associate at the Fonds belge de la Recherche Scientifique, and Associate Professor at the University of Louvain. His publications include articles on Greek ethics and aesthetics. He is the editor, with Nick Smith, of Socrates’ Divine Sign: Religion, Practice, and Value in Socratic Philo- sophy, Academic Printing, 2005; with Ch. Bobonich, of Akrasia in Greek Philosophy, Brill, 2007; with Marco Zingano, of Happiness, Contemplation, and Action in Aristotle, Peeters, forthcoming; and with Fritz-Gregor Herrmann, of Plato and the Poets, Brill, forthcoming. He is currently working at a commentary of Aristotle’s Poetics and a book on Plato and Aristotle on Poetry.

Dimitri El Murr is Maître de conférences in Ancient Philosophy at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He was educated at the Ecole Normale Superieure (Paris) and at the University of Paris 1 from which he received his Doctoral Thesis on Plato in 2005. He is the current editor of Plato, The Journal of the International Plato Society. He has published a book on ancient and modern theories of friendship (L’Amitié, Paris, 2001) 280 ABOUT OUR CONTRIBUTORS and several articles on Plato as well as on Aristotle’s ethics. He is currently working on a monograph on Plato’s Statesman which should appear in French in 2010.

Eugene Garver is Regents Professor of Philosophy at Saint John’s University in Minnesota. He studied at the University of Chicago and is the author, among other things, of Confronting Aristotle’s Ethics: Ancient and Modern Morality and Aristotle’s Rhetoric: An Art of Character, both from the University of Chicago Press, and is currently completing the trilogy with a volume called Aristotle’s Politics: Living Well and Living Together. Before turning to Aristotle he wrote Machiavelli and the History of Prudence (Wisconsin) and hopes soon to turn his attention from Aristotle to Spinoza.

Gary M. Gurtler, S.J., is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Boston College. He was educated at St. John Fisher College, at Fordham University, and at the Weston School of Theology. He has published on ancient philosophy, with special attention to Neoplatonism, including a book Plotinus: The Experience of Unity (1988). His article “The Activity of Happiness in Aristotle’s Ethics” appeared in The Review of Metaphysics (June, 2003). Currently, his continued research on alienation and otherness in Plotinus is published in two articles, “Plotinus: Matter and Otherness, ‘On Matter’ (II 4[12]), Epoche 9 (2005) 197-214, and “Plotinus: Self and Consciousness,” History of Platonism: Plato Redivivus (New Orleans, University Press of the South, 2005).

Jörg Hardy received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Münster, Germany, and received his post-doctoral qualification (Habili- tation 2008) from the Free University of Berlin, Germany, where he is currently working as Senior Research Scholar. He is the author of “Platons Theorie des Wissens im Theaitet” (2001, Hypomnemata 128), “Jenseits der Täuschungen-Selbsterkenntnis mit Sokrates” (forthcoming), and a German translation and commentary of Plato’s Laches (forthcoming).

Brian Earl Johnson is an Assistant Professor at Fordham University. He earned his B.A. from the University of Illinois at Chicago and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He specializes in Hellenistic philosophy and is working on a project concerning the ethics of Epictetus.

Thornton Lockwood is a lecturer in the philosophy department and the Core Curriculum at Boston University. He received his MA from St. John’s