Prof Christopher Shields
| Professor of Classical Philosophy Tutorial Fellow, Lady Margaret Hall christopher.shields@lmh.ox.ac.uk Lady Margaret Hall
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Research Interests
Ancient Philosophy, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind
Career & Education
Primary positions:
2004-present
- University of Oxford: Professor of Classical Philosophy, Tutorial Fellow, Lady Margaret Hall
1988-2004
- The University of Colorado at Boulder, Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor, Departments of Philosophy and Classics
Visiting positions:
- Cornell University, Visiting Professor, Department of Philosophy, 2007
- Yale University, Visiting Professor, Department of Philosophy, 2002
- Cornell University, Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, 1997
- Stanford University, Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, 1995
- Corpus Christi College, Oxford, Visiting Fellow, 1992
- University of Arizona, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, 1985
Education:
- Cornell University Ph.D. in Philosophy, 1986
- Cornell University M.A. in Philosophy, 1984
- Bowling Green State University, M.A. in Philosophy, 1981
- Bowling Green State University, B.A. in English Literature, 1979
Select Publications
- Aristotle (London: Routledge, 2007; reprinted with corrections, 2008)
- Classical Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction (London: Routledge, 2003)
- The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas, with Robert Pasnau (Boulder: Westview Press, 2003)
- Blackwell Guide to Ancient Philosophy, ed. (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2002)
- Order in Multiplicity: Homonymy in the Philosophy of Aristotle (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999; paperback edition, 2001)

