Michail Peramatzis

Michail Peramatzis
Associate Professor
Hinton Clarendon Fellow, Worcester College
michail.peramatzis@philosophy.ox.ac.uk

 

See college webpage: https://www.worc.ox.ac.uk/about/fellows/michail-peramatzis

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Career

2011 - present Associate Professor in Philosophy, Philosophy Faculty, and Hinton Clarendon Fellow, Worcester College, University of Oxford.
2010 - 2011 Lecturer in Philosophy, Queen’s University, Belfast.
2006 - 2010 Junior Research Fellow, Christ Church, University of Oxford.
2000 - 2002 Hellenic Navy.

 

Education 

2002 - 2006 DPhil, Christ Church, University of Oxford.
1998 - 2000 MSt in the Philosophy & History of Science & Technology, University of Athens.
1993 - 1997 BA in Classics & Philosophy, University of Athens.

 

Books/Monographs

Priority in Aristotle’s Metaphysics, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2011

 

Reviews

Corkum P. ‘Critical notice for Michail Peramatzis's Priority in Aristotle's Metaphysics, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2011’ Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 2013, Vol. 43, No. 1, 136–156.

Luca Gili, Bryn Mawr Classics Review (http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2012/2012-05-05.html )

Johnston R. ‘Michail Peramatzis Priority in Aristotle’s Metaphysics. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press 2011’ Philosophy in Review XXXII (2012), no. 6, 507-510.

Malink M. ‘Essence and Being: A Discussion of Michail Peramatzis, Priority in Aristotle's Metaphysics’ Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 45(1):341-362, 2013.

Morison B. ‘Aristotle Book Notes’ Phronesis 57 (2012), 202-4.

Panayides C. ‘Priority in Aristotle's Metaphysics. By Michail Peramatzis. Oxford Aristotle Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011’ Mind 123 (489):230-235, 2014.

Witt C., Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/priority-in-aristotle-s-metaphysics-2/)

 

The Metaphysics of the Metaphysics: the Philosophical Project of the Central Books of Aristotle’s Metaphysics, book-length monograph, co-authored with David Charles, submitted to OUP in 2024
Aristotle Metaphysics ΓΔΕ: Translation and Commentary (for the Clarendon Aristotle Series), in progress, first draft to be submitted to OUP by the end of 2025.

 

Edited Volumes

Aristotelian Metaphysics: Essays in honour of David Charles, 2024, OUP, co-edited with Bronstein D. and Johansen T.

 

Journal Articles/Book Chapters

‘The Priority of Particular Substances in Aristotle’s Categories’ forthcoming in Neels R. J. (ed), Ground and Fundamentality in Plato and Aristotle, OUP. 

‘Aristotle on Induction-Recognition (epagōgē) and Knowledge in Posterior Analytics I.1 and Prior Analytics II.21’ forthcoming in Kakkuri-Knuuttila M.-L., Lagerlund H., Perala M. (eds), Induction in Aristotle and the Greek Commentators. 

‘Hylomorphism in De Partibus Animalium’ forthcoming in Connell S. (ed.), The Cambridge Critical Guide to Aristotle's Part of Animals, CUP. 

‘Grounding the Most Basic Logical Principles: Comments on James Lennox’s “Ayn Rand and Aristotle on Axioms and their Validation” ’ in Gotthelf A. & Lennox J. (eds.), Ayn Rand and Aristotle: Philosophical and Historical Studies, University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, forthcoming. 

‘Aristotle on How Essence Grounds Necessity’, in Bronstein D., Johansen T., & Peramatzis M. (eds.), Aristotelian Metaphysics: Essays in honour of David Charles, 2024, OUP. 

‘Aristotle on Unity in Metaphysics Z.12 and H.6’ Ratio 36(4), 2023, 1-17 http://doi.org/10.1111/rati.12370 

‘Conceptions of Truth in Plato’s Sophist’, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 2020. https://doi.org/10.1515/agph-2020-1015 

‘Posterior Analytics II.11, 94b8-26: Final Cause and Demonstration’ Manuscritto, Special Issue: Aristotle on Science and Its Logical and Metaphysical Entanglements, 2019. http://www.scielo.br/pdf/man/2019nahead/2317-630X-man-0100-6045-2019-v42n4-mp.pdf 

‘Aristotle’s Hylomorphism: The Causal-Explanatory Model’. Metaphysics. 1(1), 2018, pp. 12–32. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/met.2 

‘Aristotle’s “Logical” Level of Metaphysical Investigation’ in Bydén B. and Thomsen Thörnqvist C. (eds.), The Aristotelian Tradition: Aristotle’s Works on Logic and Metaphysics and Their Reception in the Middle Ages, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, 2017, 81-130. 

‘Metaphysics A.7, 988b16-21: Aristotle's Conclusion about His Predecessors on Causes’, Philosophical Inquiry, 41, 2017, Festschrift for Professor Vasilis Karasmanis, 55-65.

‘Aristotle on Truth-Bearers’ (co-authored with David Charles), Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, 50, 2016, 101-141. 

‘What is a Form in Aristotle’s Hylomorphism?’, History of Philosophy Quarterly 32.3, 2015, 195-216. 

‘Sameness, Definition, and Essence’, Studia Philosophica Estonica, 7.3, 2014, Special Aristotle Issue, 1–26. 

‘Matter in Scientific Definitions in Aristotle’ in Oxford Handbooks Online. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013-4. 

‘Science and Metaphysics in Aristotle’s Philosophy’, Metascience, 2012, 303-315. 

‘Essence and Per Se Predication in Aristotle’s Metaphysics Z.4’, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 39, 2010, 121-182. 

‘Aristotle’s Notion of Priority in Nature and Substance’, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, vol. 35, 2008, 187-247. 

‘Aristotle’s Metaphysics Z.4: Criteria for Definition and Essence and Their Relation to the Posterior Analytics A.4.’ [in Greek] Deukalion, 24.1, 2006, 5-30. 

 

Book Reviews

Koslicki K., Form, Matter, Substance, Mind Vol. 129. 513. January 2020: https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/fzz006 .

De Haas F., Leunissen M., & Martijn M. (eds.), Interpreting Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics in Late Antiquity and Beyond, The Classical Review, 65.2, 2015, 1-3.

Barnes J., Method and Metaphysics: Essays in Ancient Philosophy I, Mind, 123 (489), 2014, 183-189.

 

Future Publication Projects

The Metaphysics of the Metaphysics: the Philosophical Project of the Central Books of Aristotle’s Metaphysics, book-length monograph, co-authored with David Charles, in progress.

Aristotle Metaphysics ΓΔΕ: Translation and Commentary (for the Clarendon Aristotle Series), in progress.

‘Aristotle on Knowledge & Belief: Posterior Analytics I.33’, in progress.

‘Would Plato ever Define Knowledge as True Belief plus Logos: the Theaetetus Case’, in progress.

‘Aristotle on the Unity of Metaphysics as a Science’, in progress.

‘Aristotle’s conception of Practical Wisdom & Virtue: Nicomachean Ethics VI.13’, in progress.

 

  • Ancient Philosophy (especially Plato's and Aristotle's Theoretical Philosophies)
  • Metaphysics.