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Terence Irwin

Irish philosopher (born 1947)

Summary

Irish philosopher (born 1947)

Field	Value
region	Western philosophy
era	Contemporary philosophy
name	T. H. Irwin
birth_date	21 April 1947
birth_place	Enniskillen, Northern Ireland
alma_mater	Magdalen College, Oxford
Princeton University
thesis_title	Theories of Virtue and Knowledge in Plato's Early and Middle Dialogues
workplaces	Harvard University
Cornell University
Keble College, Oxford
thesis_url	https://www.proquest.com/docview/302668167
thesis_year	1973
school_tradition	Analytic
main_interests	Ancient philosophy, ethics
doctoral_advisor	Gregory Vlastos

Princeton University Cornell University Keble College, Oxford Terence Henry Irwin FBA (; born 21 April 1947), usually cited as T. H. Irwin, is a scholar and philosopher specializing in ancient Greek philosophy and the history of ethics (i.e., the history of Western moral philosophy in ancient, medieval, and modern times). He spent most of his career at Cornell University before becoming the Professor of the History of Philosophy at the University of Oxford, and Fellow of Keble College, Oxford from 2007 until 2017.

Education and career

Irwin was an undergraduate at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he graduated with a BA (first-class honours) in Literae Humaniores (Classics, Philosophy and Ancient History) in 1969. He then studied at Princeton University with Gregory Vlastos, and graduated with a PhD in philosophy in 1973. He was assistant professor of philosophy at Harvard University (1972–1975) and then, from 1975 until 2007, he was at Cornell University, where he served as Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy and Humane Letters (from 1995), Professor of Classics (from 1992), and Professor of Philosophy (from 1982). He moved to Oxford in 2007, and retired in 2017.

Irwin is a Fellow of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the British Academy. He is married to Gail Fine, who was also a professor of philosophy at Cornell University and visiting professor of ancient philosophy at Oxford.

Publications

Plato's Moral Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977.
Plato's Gorgias (translation and notes). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979.
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (translation and notes). Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1985.
Aristotle's First Principles. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Classical Thought. OPUS Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Plato's Ethics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
The Development of Ethics, Vol. 1 (from Socrates to the Reformation). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
The Development of Ethics, Vol. 2 (from Suarez to Rousseau). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
The Development of Ethics, Vol. 3 (from Kant to Rawls). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.

In addition, Irwin has published over 100 essays and articles in journals and volumes of conference proceedings.

Notes

References

‘IRWIN, Prof. Terence Henry’, Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012; online edn, Nov 2012 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U254862 accessed 22 May 2013]
[http://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0014/10724/Vita-publications.pdf See Prof. Irwin's CV and List of Publications, p. 1] {{webarchive. link. (2011-06-11)
[http://www.amacad.org/pdfs/classSection08.pdf See The Bulletin of the American Academy, Fall 2008, p. 114]
(2013-09-10). "Conference celebrates ancient philosophy, Fine and Irwin | Cornell Chronicle". News.cornell.edu.
[http://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0014/10724/Vita-publications.pdf See Prof. Irwin's CV and List of Publications, pp. 2–6] {{webarchive. link. (2011-06-11)

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