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James Allen is professor of philosophy and a fellow of the Center for Philosophy of Science. He has held a visiting appointment at Yale, been a visiting fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge, and a Stipendiat of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung at the Universität Hamburg. His principal interests are in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy. He is the author of articles about ancient conceptions of expertise, ancient skepticism, ancient medicine, Aristotelian logic, Epicureanism, Stoicism, and Cicero and Inference from Signs: Ancient Debates about the Nature of Evidence (Oxford, 2001).
     e-mail: jvallen@pitt.edu

Harry C. Avery is professor of classics. His main interests are in Greek literature and history of the sixth and fifth centuries BC and in Roman history and literature of the late republic and the Augustan era. 
     e-mail: avery@pitt.edu ||

Edwin Floyd is chair of the department of classics.  He joined the University of Pittsburgh faculty in 1966,  having taught previously at the College of William and Mary. His areas of specialization are Greek poetry, Greek and Indo-European linguistics, and Sanskrit. Homer, Sappho, Parmenides, Pindar, and Aristophanes are among the authors on whom he has published, along with Linear B, Greek phonology and morphology, and the development of Indo-European poetic formulas in the Rig-Veda and Mahabharata and in Homer and post-Homeric Greek.  Specifically philosophical interests include the pre-Socratic poets (Xenophanes, Parmenides, and Empedocles) and their influence on later poets such as Nonnos.
    e-mail: edfloyd@pitt.edu || webpage

Allan Gotthelf (HPS; Ph.D., Columbia)
Aristotle's biology, philosophy of science, and metaphysics; topics in epistemology, metaphysics and ethical theory.

Allan Gotthelf is Visiting Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science under the university's new Fellowship for the Study of Objectivism. He is Emeritus Professor of philosophy at The College of New Jersey, where for many years he chaired the philosophy dept. and coordinated the interdisciplinary classical studies program. (Upon his retirement the college created the Allan Gotthelf Prize in Classical Studies.) He has also taught on a visiting basis at Oxford University, Tokyo Metropolitan University and the University of Texas at Austin. He is a life member of Clare Hall Cambridge, and was a visiting member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.

He has written extensively on Aristotle's biology, natural philosophy, and philosophy of science; his collected papers will appear next year in the Oxford Aristotle Studies series, under the title Teleology, Scientific Method, and Substance: Essays on Aristotle's Biological Enterprise. He is currently preparing for publication in the Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries series vol. 2 of David Balme's major edition of Aristotle's Historia Animalium (vol. 1: Cambridge 2002), and is working on an extended study of Ayn Rand's theory of concepts, essences, and objectivity.

email: gotthelf@pitt.edu

Before taking his MA in Greek and PhD in Classics at the University of California in Berkeley, Nicholas Jones earned a BA in Philosophy at the University of Southern California. At Pittsburgh, he has been primarily concerned with the government, society, and culture of classical Athens and is the author of Public Organization in Ancient Greece (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society 1987), Ancient Greece: State and Society (Prentice Hall 1997), The Associations of Classical Athens: The Response to Democracy (Oxford Univ. Pr. 1999), and Rural Athens Under the Democracy (Univ. of Pennsylvania Pr. 2004). These works touch variously on philosophy at Athens:  the schools as associations, the organization of the Cretan City in Plato's Laws, the orgeones and the setting of Plato’s Republic, and the design and characterization of rural spaces in the classical utopias.  At present, he is at work on a textbook for Praeger entitled Politics and Society in Ancient Greece and will contribute text, translation, and commentary on thirty-five ancient writers on Athens for the New Brill Jacoby--a revised edition of Felix Jacoby's Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker scheduled to appear over the next ten or fifteen years. Meanwhile he pursues interests in Greek comedy, post-classical atticizing writings, and literary representations of gender.
     e-mail: nfjones@pitt.edu

James Lennox is professor of History and Philosophy of Science. Research specialties include Ancient Greek philosophy, science and medicine and Charles Darwin and Darwinism. Lennox has published essays on the philosophical and scientific thought of Plato, Aristotle, Theophrastus, Boyle, Spinoza, and Darwin, especially focused on scientific explanation, and particularly teleological explanation, in the biological sciences. He is author of Aristotle's Philosophy of Biology (Cambridge 2000) and Aristotle on the Parts of Animals I-IV (Oxford, 2001), the first English translation of this work since 1937. He is co-editor of Philosophical Issues in Aristotle's Biology (Cambridge 1987); Self-Motion from Aristotle to Newton (Princeton 1995); and Concepts, Theories, and Rationality in the Biological Sciences (Pittsburgh and Konstanz 1995).
     e-mail: jglennox@pitt.edu || webpage

John McDowell is University Professor of Philosophy. Before coming to Pittsburgh in 1986, he taught at University College, Oxford. He has held visiting appointments at Harvard University, the University of Michigan, UCLA, and Princeton University. He was the John Locke Lecturer at Oxford University in 1991. A version of his lectures has been published as Mind and World (Harvard, 1994). Several of his papers have been collected in Mind, Value, and Reality (Harvard, 1998) and Meaning, Knowledge, and Reality (Harvard, 1998). His major interests are Greek philosophy, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, metaphysics and epistemology, and ethics. He is a fellow of the British Academy and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
     e-mail: jmcdowel@pitt.edu

James E. McGuire is professor of history and philosophy of science and consulting editor of Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. He is co-author of Hermeticism and the Scientific Revolution, Certain Philosophical Questions: Newton's Trinity Notebook, and most recently, with Barbara Tuchanska, of Science Unfettered : A Philosophical Study in Sociohistorical Ontology. He has published extensively on science and philosophy since the Renaissance, on the historiography of ideas, Newton, 17th- and 18th-century natural philosophy, and on the history of 17th-century philosophy. More recent research concentrates on Greek science and cosmology, especially Philoponus and Aristotle, and on the rhetoric of science.
     e-mail: jemcg@pitt.edu

Peter Machamer is professor of history and philosophy of science.  He has edited a number of books, including Motion and Time, Space and Matter, the Cambridge Companion to Galileo, and Studies in Perception. He has written many articles on topics in the history and philosophy of science. He works p rimarily on 16th- and 17th-century topics, the philosophy of psychology and social science, and values and science. He also does empirical work in cognitive psychology.
     e-mail: pkmach@pitt.edu || webpage

Jessica Moss is an assistant professor of philosophy and a member of the Graduate Program in Classics, Philosophy and Ancient Science.  She specializes in Ancient Philosophy, and is working on topics in moral psychology in Plato and Aristotle.
     e-mail: jdm39@pitt.edu ||

Mark Possanza is associate professor of classics. His main areas of interest are Latin poetry of the Republic, especially Lucretius's great poem of the universe, De Rerum Natura; astronomy in Greek (Aratus) and Latin poetry (Cicero, Germanicus, Avienius); the practice of translation in Latin literature; and the transmission and textual criticism of Latin texts. His book "Translating the Heavens: Aratus, Germanicus and the Poetics of Latin Translation" was published in 2004.
   e-mail: possanza@pitt.edu ||

Nicholas Rescher is University Professor of Philosophy. He came to the University in 1961, has served as chairman of the department, and is vice chairman of the Center for Philosophy of Science. Born in Germany in 1928, he is the author of more than 70 books on a wide variety of philosophical subjects, and has pioneered in the revival and refurbishing of the idealistic tradition in epistemology and metaphysics in the light of ideas drawn from American pragmatism. In 1989-90 he served as president of the American Philosophical Association (Eastern Division). From 1969 to 1993 he edited the American Philosophical Quarterly. Honorary degrees have been awarded to Professor Rescher by Loyola University of Chicago, Lehigh University, the Argentine National University of Cordoba, and the University of Konstanz, as well as his alma mater, Queens College of the City University of New York. In 1983 he received an Alexander von Humboldt Prize awarded under the auspices of the German Federal Republic for distinguished scholarship in the humanities.
    e-mail: rescher@pitt.edu || webpage

Mae Smethurst is professor of classics. She was a Junior Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C., where she began her work on the comparison of Greek tragedy and Japanese noh. In 1989 she published her book, The Artistry of Aeschylus and Zeami: A Comparative Study of Greek Tragedy and Noh, which has received the AAUP Arisawa Memorial Award. She has published articles as well on the subject of Greek tragedy and the comparison of tragedy and noh. She published the book, Dramatic Representations of Filial Piety, in 2000, and was awarded a Japan-United States Friendship Commission Prize by Columbia University's Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture.  Her main interests are ancient literary theory, drama, lyric poetry and comparative theatre.
     e-mail: msmet@pitt.edu ||

Hans-Peter Stahl is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Classics. He taught at Westfalische Wilhelms- Universitat and at Yale University before joining the University of Pittsburgh. He was a Junior Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C., in 1961-1962, and a visiting Member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in 1974-1975 (holding a Guggenheim Fellowship) and again in 1980-1981 (supported by an NEH Fellowship). In the Winter and Spring Quarters of 1988, he was a Visiting Professor at Ohio State University. His publications include monographs on Thucydides (Man's Place in the Historical Process, 1966 [in German]) and on Propertius (Individual and State under Augustus, 1985) as well as articles on Plato, Herodotus, Euripides, Horace, Vergil, Ovid. In 1995 and 1996 he convened conferences on Vergil in Pittsburgh, PA and Oxford, U.K. .  He published the contributions in a volume entitled Vergil's Aeneid: Augustan Epic and Political Context (London, 1998). His graduate teaching in Pittsburgh covers texts in the areas of Greek epic, tragedy, historiography, philosophy and Roman epic, elegy, satire.
     e-mail: hpst@pitt.edu ||

Friday, February 22, 2007, 3:30 pm,                               Cathedral of Learning 244A

Reception following lecture