CONTRIBUTOR:

Richard D. McKirahan

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Edwin Clarence Norton Professor of Classics

DEPARTMENT:

Classics

INSTITUTION:

Pomona College

BIOGRAPHY:

Richard McKirahan is E.C. Norton Professor of Classics and Professor of Philosophy at Pomona College where he has taught since 1973 and, since 2013, Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Santa Barbara He is President of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy. His research areas are ancient philosophy and science, with special interest in Presocratic Philosophy, the Sophists, and Aristotelian science. Among his publications are Philosophy Before Socrates (2nd. edn. 2011), Aristotle's Theory of Demonstrative Science (1994, repr. 2017) and a revised edition of A.H. Coxon's The Fragments of Parmenides, which was named the 2009 Philosophy Book of the Year by ForeWord Reviews. He is currently working on a book on the Sophists.