Alexander P.D. Mourelatos is Professor of
Philosophy and Classics at The University of Texas at Austin. A
member of the UT Austin faculty since 1965, he founded there, and
for many years directed, the Joint Classics-Philosophy Graduate
Program in Ancient Philosophy, widely recognized as one of the best
such programs in North America. He received all his academic
degrees from Yale University (Ph.D., 1964), and has also been
awarded an honorary degree in philosophy in his native Greece
(University of Athens, 1994). In 1999, he was elected Corresponding
Member of the Academy of Athens.
In U.S. national competitions he has received several awards,
including the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. On some 130
occasions, he has delivered lectures at academic venues in the
U.S.A., Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Europe, Australia, and New
Zealand. His articles have appeared in journals in classics;
philosophy; history and philosophy of science; and linguistics.
Outside Texas, he has held visiting appointments at the University
of Wisconsin, Madison, at the Institute for Advanced Study
(Princeton, NJ), the Center for Hellenic Studies (Washington, DC),
the Australian National University, Carleton College, and the
University of Crete.
The book by Mourelatos is a mandatory reference for anyone who wants and intends to dedicate himself to the studies on Parmenides of Elea (sec. VI-V a.C), by the meticulous philological work, the analytic severity, the speculative breadth, the amplitude of the bibliographical debate with the critical contemporary one, that is, by the erudition that reveals in sciences of the antiquity. Everything that is placed here is to service and articulate the multiple layers of significance that is enclosed in the 116 verses that arrived of the poem of Parmenides, one of the biggest texts of the western philosophical tradition"". - Journal of Ancient Philosophy
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