Updated:  October, 2005

Department of Philosophy
Wayne State University
Detroit, Michigan 48202

(313) 577-6102 or 577-2474

Date of Birth: October 25, 1944

Trinity University: B.A., Philosophy, May, 1967.
The University of Texas at Austin: Ph.D., Philosophy, May, 1977.

Area of Specialization

Ancient Greek Philosophy (especially the Presocratics, Plato and Aristotle).

Teaching Positions

Full Professor: 1998 Wayne State University
Associate Professor: 1991-98 Wayne State University
Assistant Professor: 1988-91 Wayne State University
Senior Lecturer: 1987-88 Wayne State University
Visiting Assistant Professor: 1986-87 The University of Colorado
Visiting Assistant Professor: 1985-86 Arizona State University
Visiting Assistant Professor: 1984-85 The University of Arizona
Visiting Assistant Professor: 1982-84 The University of Texas at Austin
Assistant Professor: 1978-82 The University of South Dakota
Lecturer: 1977-78 The University of South Dakota

Book:

Aristotle's Idea of the Soul (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1996), 183 pages.

Articles:

1. 'Aristotle and the Genus-Species Relation', The Southern Journal of Philosophy 18 (1980): 37-50.

2. 'A Defense of the Traditional Position Concerning Aristotle's Non-Substantial Particulars', Canadian Journal of Philosophy 10 (1980): 593-606.

3. 'The Differentia and the per se Accident in Aristotle', Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 63 (1981): 118-129.

4. 'Aristotle on Genus and Differentia', Journal of the History of Philosophy 22 (1984): 1-23. Reprinted in Aristotle's Ontology: Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy, Vol. V, editors A. Preus and J. Anton (Albany: SUNY Press, 1992): 69-93.

5. 'The scala naturae and the Continuity of Kinds', Phronesis 30 (1985): 181-200.

6. 'Deformed Kinds and the Fixity of Species', Classical Quarterly 37 (1987): 110-116.

7. 'Aristotle and the Finitude of Natural Kinds', Philosophy 62 (1987): 523-526.

8. 'Aristotle's Natural Kinds', Philosophy 64 (1989): 245-247.

9. 'Aristotle and the Functionalist Debate', Apeiron 23 (1990): 27-49.

10. 'Aristotle and the Concept of Supervenience', The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 31 (1993): 161-177.

11. 'Aristotle and Perceptual Realism', Spindel Conference 1992: Ancient Minds, ed. John Ellis The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 31 (1993), supplement: 161-171.

12. 'Aristotle on the Analogy Between Action and Nature', Classical Quarterly 43 (1993): 168-176.

13. 'Supervenient Dualism', Ratio NS 7 (1994): 1-13.

14. 'Aristotle on the Subjecthood of Form', Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 13 (1995): 135-159.

15. `The Subjecthood of Form: A Reply to Shields', Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 13 (1995): 177-185.

16. 'Metaphysics Z.11.1036b28: aistheton or aisthetikon', Classical Quarterly 50 (2000): 415-423.

17. 'Death's Other Kingdom: Heraclitus on the Life of the Foolish and the Wise', Classical Philology 95 (2000): 260-281.

18. 'The Cosmology of Mortals', in Presocratic Philosophy: Essays in Honor of Alexander P. D. Mourelatos, eds. D. Graham and V. Caston (Vermont: Ashgate, 2002), 101-116.  

19.  'Cinematic Philosophy in Le Feu follet:  the Search for a Meaningful Life', Film and Philosophy 8 (2004): 74-90.

20.  'Argumentation and Heraclitus' Book', Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 26 (2004): 1-17.

21.  'Heraclitus' Quarrel with Polymathy and Historie', Transactions of the American Philological Association 134 (2004): 235-261.

22.  'Perecydes of Syros and the Early Days of Natural Philosophy', Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, forthcoming.

23.  'Early Natural Theology: The Purification of the Divine Nature', in Polarity and Tension of Being: Pythagoras and Heraclitus, Institute for Philosophical Research, Conference Series Vol. 5, forthcoming.

Encyclopedia entry

'Heraclitus of Ephesus', in The Enclopedia of Philosophy, editor-inchief D.M. Borchet (Macmillan Reference USA), 2005, forthcoming.