Curriculum Vitae Mariska E.M.P.J. Leunissen Office Home Philosophy Department 101 Marin Place UNC Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27516 Caldwell Hall, CB# 3125, office 207F 240 East Cameron, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 Phone: (314) 537 0371 Phone: (919) 962-2280 Email: [email protected] EMPLOYMENT Associate Professor at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2013-........... Assistant Professor at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2011-2013 Residential Spinoza Fellow at Leiden University (Classics) Spring 2013 Residential Fellow at the Harvard University Center for Hellenic Studies 2010-2011 Assistant Professor at Washington University in St. Louis 2007-2011 AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION AREAS OF COMPETENCE Ancient Philosophy, especially Aristotle History and Philosophy of Science Ancient Science Ancient Greek Language and Literature EDUCATION Ph.D. in Philosophy cum laude (highest possible distinction) 2003-2007 Faculty of Philosophy, Leiden University, The Netherlands Dissertation: ‘Explanation and Teleology in Aristotle’s Philosophy of Nature’ Dissertation Advisor: Prof. dr. F.A.J. de Haas; External referee: Prof. dr. D. Charles Visiting student in the Joint Program in Ancient Philosophy, sponsored by 2005-2007 the Philosophy Department of the University of Texas at Austin, Texas, U.S.A. (Spring semesters) Advisor: Prof. R.J. Hankinson B.A. and M.A. in Classics cum laude (highest possible distinction) 1997-2003 Department of Classics, Leiden University, The Netherlands Specialization: Greek Tragedy. Advisor: Prof. dr. I. Sluiter B.A. and M.A. in Philosophy (with distinction) 1998-2002 Faculty of Philosophy, Leiden University, The Netherlands Specialization: Philosophy of Science, Ancient Philosophy. Advisor: Prof. dr. H. Philipse Curriculum Vitae Mariska E.M.P.J. Leunissen PUBLICATIONS BOOKS – SOLE AUTHOR Explanation and Teleology in Aristotle’s Science of Nature (Cambridge University Press) 2010 Reviewed by: O. Goldin, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2011.04.51; D. Henry, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2011.05.11; D. Depew, Ancient History Bulletin Online Reviews 1 (2011), 95-97; S. Berryman, Isis 102.4, (2011), 752-3; M. Valeriani, Centaurus 53.4 (2011), 338-340; C. Frey, Classical Philology 107.2 (2012), 169-173; M. Tuominen, Journal of the History of Philosophy 50.4 (2012), 611-612; A. Falcon, Phoenix 66 (2012), 190-192. Finalist for the Journal of the History of Philosophy 2010 Book Prize BOOKS – EDITED/CO-EDITED Aristotle’s Physics, A Critical Guide (Cambridge University Press) 2015 Interpreting Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics in Late Antiquity and Beyond (Brill: Leiden). With 2011 F.A.J. de Haas and M. Martijn. PAPERS – IN REFEREED JOURNALS (*) AND EDITED BOOKS/JOURNALS . ‘Comments on Marko Malink’s Aristotle’s Modal Syllogistic’, Philosophy and 2015 Phenomenological Research, book symposium, 733-741. ‘Aristotle on the Person-Situation Debate: From Natural Character to Moral Forthcoming Virtue’, Perspectives on Character, ed. I. Fileva, OUP . ‘The Scientific Role of Eulogos in Aristotle’s Cael II 12’, co-authored with Andrea 2015 Falcon, Theory and Practice in Aristotle’s Natural Science, ed. D. Ebrey, CUP, 217-240. ‘Perfection and the Physiology of Habituation in Aristotle’s Ethics and Physics VII 3’, 2015 chapter 12, Aristotle’s Physics, A Critical Guide, ed. M. Leunissen, CUP, 225-244. ‘The Ethnography of Problems 14 in (its mostly Aristotelian) Context’, in Essays on ps.-Aristotle’s Problemata, ed. R. Mayhew, Brill, 190-213. 2015 . ‘Physiognomy in Ancient Science and Medicine’, in: P. Keyser and J. Scarborough Forthcoming (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Science and Medicine in the Classical World, OUP. ‘Aristotle on Knowing Natural Science for the sake of Learning How to Live Well’, 2015 in: D. Henry and K. Nielsen (eds.), Bridging the Gap between Aristotle’s Science and Ethics, CUP, 214-231. ‘Comments on Henry: The Birds and the Bees – Aristotle’s Use of Analogy in 2014 Biology’, in: Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy 29.1, 170-181 . ‘Becoming Good starts with Nature: Aristotle on the Moral Advantages and the 2013 Heritability of Good Natural Character’, in: Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 44, 99-127.* . ‘Surrogate Principles and the Natural Order of Exposition in Aristotle’s De Caelo II’, Forthcoming in: R. Polansky and W. Wians (eds.), Reading Aristotle: Argument and Exposition in the Corpus Aristotelicum, Brill. ‘Biology and Teleology in Aristotle’s Account of the City’, in: J. Rocca (ed.), Teleology Forthcoming in the Ancient World: The Dispensation of Nature, CUP. 2 Curriculum Vitae Mariska E.M.P.J. Leunissen . ‘Aristotle on Natural Character and its Implications for Moral Development’, in: 2012 Journal of the History of Philosophy 50.4, 507-530.* . ‘Crafting Natures: Aristotle on Animal Design’, in: The Annual Proceedings of the Center 2012 for Philosophic Exchange, SUNY Brockport, 28-51. ‘Aristotle and Philoponus on Final Causes in Scientific Demonstrations in APo. 2011 II.11’, in: F.A.J. de Haas, M. Leunissen & M. Martijn (eds.), Interpreting Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics in Late Antiquity and Beyond, Leiden, 183-201. ‘Nature as a good Housekeeper. Secondary Teleology and Material Necessity in 2010 Aristotle’s Biology’, in: Apeiron 43.4, 117-142.* . ‘What’s Teleology got to do with it? A Reinterpretation of Aristotle’s Generation of 2010 Animals V’, With Allan Gotthelf, in: Phronesis 55.4, 325-356.* Reprinted (with slight modifications) as chapter 5 in: A. Gotthelf (2012), Teleology, First Principles, and Scientific Method in Aristotle’s Biology, Oxford, 108-130. ‘Aristotle’s Syllogistic Model of Knowledge and the Biological Sciences: 2010 Demonstrating Natural Processes’, in: J. Lesher (ed.), From Inquiry to Demonstrative Knowledge: Essays on Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics, Apeiron 43.2-3, 31-60. ‘Why Stars have no Feet. Teleological Explanations in Aristotle’s Cosmology’, in: 2009 A.C. Bowen & C. Wildberg (eds.), New Perspectives on Aristotle’s De Caelo, Brill Leiden, 245-271. ‘The Structure of Teleological Explanations in Aristotle: Theory and Practice’, in: 2007 Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 33, 145-178.* ENCYCLOPEDIA-ARTICLES/OTHER PUBLICATIONS . ‘Teleology’, in: K. von Stuckrad & R. Segal (eds.), Vocabulary for the Study of 2015 Religion, Brill: Leiden. ‘Teleologie’ (chapter IV.34), in: C. Rapp & K. Corcilius (eds.), Handbuch Aristoteles, 2011 Verlag J.B. Metzler, Stuttgart/Weimar, 348-354. (in German) . ‘Euripides’ Hercules Furens: wat philoi vermogen tegen de waanzin van Hera’, 2002 With T.A. van Berkel and C.P. Trieschnigg, in: Lampas 35, 124-51.* (in Dutch). REVIEWS . S. Maso, C. Natali, and G. Seel (eds.), Reading Aristotle Physics VII.3, What is 2013 Alteration?, Las Vegas, in: American Journal of Philology 134.1, 155-159. W. Kullmann (2010), Naturgesetz in der Vorstellung der Antike, besonders der Stoa, 2011 Stuttgart, in: Isis: Journal of the History of Science Society 102.3, 552-553. J.A. Swanson & C.D. Corbin (2009), Aristotle’s Politics. A Reader’s Guide, Continuum, 2010 in: The Classical Review 60.2, 375-376. John Mouracade (ed.) (2008), Aristotle on Life, Apeiron vol. XLI no.3, in: 2009 Aestimatio: Critical Reviews in the History of Science 6, 127-138. Julie K. Ward (2007), Aristotle on Homonymy: Dialectic and Science, Cambridge, in: 2009 The Classical Bulletin 84.2, 113-115. Robert Mayhew (2004), The Female in Aristotle’s Biology: Reason or Rationalization, 2007 Chicago, in: International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 21.2, 219-222. 3 Curriculum Vitae Mariska E.M.P.J. Leunissen . M.L. Gill & P. Pellegrin (eds.) (2006), A Companion to Ancient Philosophy, Blackwell, 2007 in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 8/6/2007. WORK IN PROGRESS . Review of J. De Groot, Aristotle’s Empiricism, Experience and Mechanics in the 4th Century BC, for JHP . ‘Aristotle’s Physics I 8’, for Aristotle’s Physics I, Symposium Aristotelicum . ‘Methods of Inquiry in Aristotle’s Biological Works’ (paper, for The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Science, ed. Liba Taub, CUP) . ‘Order and Method in Aristotle’s Generation of Animals’ (paper for a volume on Aristotle’s Generation of Animals, ed. Andrea Falcon & David Lefebvre) . From Natural Character to Moral Virtue in Aristotle (book manuscript, drafted) PRESENTATIONS – Refereed (*) and Invited . TBA upcoming - The B Club, Cambridge University, UK, March 7 2016 . TBA upcoming - UPenn Philosophy Colloquim Series, Philadelphia, February 19 2016 . TBA - Union College Ancient Philosophy Conference on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics upcoming IV.5-9, Schenectady, NY, October 16-17 2015 . ‘Aristotle on the Biological Imperfections and Moral Deficiencies of Women’ 2015 - UChicago Philosophy Departmental Visitor Series, Chicago, April 22-24 . ‘Teleology and Necessity in Aristotle’s Account of the Natural and Moral Imperfections of Women’ - UChicago Philosophy Departmental Visitor Series, Chicago, April 22-24 2015 - Keynote address, Conference on Teleology in Plato and Aristotle, University of Dayton, April 10 . ‘Aristotle on Natural Character and its Implications for Moral Development’ 2015 - Classical Dialogues Series, Columbia University, March 3 . ‘Physiognomy and its role in the selection of ‘good men’ in Aristotle’ 2015 - Aristotle Conference, UCLA, February 27-28 . ‘Analogy, Resemblance, and Signs: Physiognomical Science in Aristotle’ - Paris 1 – Sphere/UMR 7219 Seminar on Physics and Logic: Natural Philosophy 2015 and Theory of Science in Aristotle, Paris, January 30-31. Comments on Jessica Gelber’s ‘Aristotle