Terence Irwin
323 Goldwin Smith Hall
Telephone: (607) 255-6825
Email: thi1@cornell.edu
Professor Irwin, Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy, specializes in Greek philosophy. He is also interested in and regularly teaches courses on ethical theory and Kant. He has recently taught courses on the history of ethics (ancient, mediaeval, and modern), on nature and natural law, on Plotinus, on post-Aristotelian philosophy, and on Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. Each year he normally offers a reading course on Greek philosophical texts. Before joining the Sage School faculty in 1975, he was assistant professor of philosophy and classics at Harvard.
Terry's CV (PDF)
Selected Publications
- Plato's Ethics (1995).
- Aristotle's First Principles (1988).
- Classical Thought (1988).
- Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (Translation and notes)
(2nd edn., 1999).
- Plato's Gorgias (Translation and notes) (1979).
- "Reason and Responsibility in Aristotle" and "The Metaphysical
and Psychological Basis of Aristotle's Ethics," in Essays on
Aristotle's Ethics, ed. A.O. Rorty (1980).
- "Morality and Personality: Kant and Green," in Self and Nature
in Kant's Philosophy, ed. A. Wood (1984).
- "Permanent Happiness," Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy (1985).
- "Stoic and Aristotelian Conceptions of Happiness" in The Norms of Nature,
ed. M. Schofield and G. Striker (1986).
- Aristotle's Philosophy of Mind," in Companion to Ancient Thought:
Psychology, ed. S. Everson (1991).
- "Eminent Victorians and Greek Ethics," in Henry Sidgwick,
ed. B. Schultz (1992).
- "Who Discovered the Will?" Philosophical Perspectives (1992).
- 'Mill and the Classical World', in Cambridge Companion to Mill,
ed. J. Skorupski.
- "Practical reason divided: Aquinas and his successors," in Ethics and
Practical Reason, ed. G. Cullity and B. Gaut (Oxford UP, 1997).
- "Splendid Vices? Augustine for and against pagan virtues," Mediaeval
Philosophy and Theology 8 (1999), 105-27.
- "Ethics as an inexact science: Aristotle and the ambitions of moral theory,"
in Moral Particularism, ed. B.W. Hooker and M. Little (Oxford UP, 2000).
- A draft of a book on the history of ethics from Socrates to Rawls.
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