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Prof Terence Irwin

Professor of Ancient Philosophy
Keble College

terry.irwin@philosophy.ox.ac.uk

Keble College
Oxford, OX1 3PG

Research Interests

Ancient Philosophy, ethics (especially history), Kant

Terence Irwin

Career & Education

1969 Magdalen College, Oxford, Literae Humaniores (Class 1)
1973 Princeton University, PhD
1972-5   Harvard University, Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Classics
1975-82 Cornell University, Associate Professor of Philosophy
1975- Cornell University, Associate Professor (1975), Professor (1982), Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy (1995), Professor of Classics (1995), Emeritus (2008)
2007  University of Oxford, Professor of Ancient Philosophy
2010 British Academy Fellow


CV and Publications (PDF)

Recent Publications

Books

  1. The Development of Ethics, (a historical and critical survey covering the history of moral philosophy),
    vol. 1 (Socrates to the Reformation), OUP,  September 2007.
    vol. 2 (Suarez to Rousseau), OUP, July 2008.
    vol. 3 (Kant to Rawls), OUP, September 2009

  2. Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (2nd edn.). Hackett, 1999.

  3. Oxford Reader in Classical Philosophy . Oxford UP, 1999.

  4. Plato's Ethics . Oxford UP, 1995.

  5. Aristotle : Selections (with G. Fine), translation and notes, Hackett , 1995. 

Papers

  1. ‘The inside story of the Seventh Platonic Letter: a sceptical introduction’, Rhizai 6 (2009), 7-40.

  2. ‘The roles of consent in Aquinas’ theory of action’, Mind, Method and Morality: Essays in Honour of Anthony Kenny, J.G. Cottingham and P.M.S. Hacker, eds. (OUP, 2010), 97-118.

  3. ‘The Platonic Corpus’ in Oxford Handbook of Plato, ed. G. Fine (OUP, 2008).

  4. ‘The Threefold Cord: Reconciling Strategies in Moral Theory’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 108 (2008), 121-33.

  5. ‘Aquinas, natural law, and Aristotelian eudaemonism’, in Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Ethics ed. R. Kraut ( Blackwell, 2006)

  6. ‘Anachronism and the concept of morality’, in Antike Philosophie verstehen / Understanding Ancient Philosophy, edd. M. van Ackeren and J. Mueller (Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt, 2006).

  7. 'Green and the British Moralists', in T.H. Green: Ethics, Metaphysics, and Political Philosophy, ed. W.J. Manders and M. Dimova-Cookson (OUP, 2006)

  8. ‘Was Socrates against Democracy?’, in Plato’s Apology, Crito, and Euthyphro, ed. R. Kamtekar (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005)

  9. 'Kantian Autonomy ‘ in Action and Agency, ed. H. Steward and J. Hyman ( Cambridge UP, 2004).