Address: Haverford College, Haverford Pa. 19041
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Email: akosman@haverford.edu

Education:
Sacramento Junior College, Sacramento, California, 1952-53
University of California at Berkeley, 1953-58; B.A. in Philosophy, 1956; M.A. in Philosophy, 1959; Thesis: “Spinoza and 17th Century Science”
Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, 1958-59
Harvard University, 1959-62; Ph.D. 1964; Dissertation: “The Aristotelian Backgrounds of Bacon’s Novum Organum”

Teaching:
John Whitehead Professor of Philosophy, Haverford College, 1984-present
Visiting Professor of Philosophy, University of California at Berkeley, l979-80
Visiting Professor of Philosophy, University of California at Los Angeles, Winter-Spring 1979
Professor of Philosophy, Haverford College, 1973-1984
Visiting Associate Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University, 1971-72
Visiting Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Washington, summer 1971
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Haverford College, 1968-73
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Haverford College, 1962-68
Teaching Fellow, Harvard University, 1960-61
Teaching Fellow, University of California, 1957-58

Fellowships:
Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 1990-91
Faculty, NEH Summer Institute in Aristotle, University of New Hampshire, 1988
Scholar in Residence, University of Pittsburgh, 1981-82
Fellow, Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington DC, 1975-76
NEH Summer Institute in Ancient Philosophy, Colorado College, 1970
Fellow, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1968-69
Samuel Fels Fellow, 1961-62

Publications:
“Saving The Phenomena: Aristotle on Realism And Instrumentalism” in Aristotle and Contemporary Science, edited by Demetra Sfendoni-Mentzou, Peter Lang Publishing, New York, 2000

“Metaphysics L 9: Divine Thought” in Aristotle’s Metaphysics Lambda, Symposium Aristotelicum, edited by Michael Frede and David Charles, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000

“Aristotelian Metaphysics and Biology: Furth’s Substance, Form and Psyche”, Philosophical Studies, Volume 94, 1999

“Aristotle’s Prime Mover”, in Self-motion from Aristotle to Newton, edited by Mary Louise Gill and James Lennox, Princeton University Press, Princeton: 1994.

“Aristotle on the Activity of Being” in Unity, Identity and Explanation in Aristotle’s Metaphysics, edited by T.Scaltsas, D. Charles, and M.L. Gill, Clarendon Press, Oxford 1994.

“What Does the Maker Mind Make? The Role of Aristotle’s Nous Poetikos” in Essays on Aristotle’s De Anima, edited by A. Rorty and M. Nussbaum, Clarendon Press, Oxford: 1992

“Silence and Imitation in the Platonic Dialogues” in Methods of Interpreting Plato and his Dialogues, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Supplementary Volume, edited by Nicholas Smith, Clarendon Press, Oxford: 1992

“Acting: Drama as the mimesis of praxis”, in Essays on Aristotle’s Rhetoric, edited by A. Rorty, Princeton University Press, Princeton: 1992 “Necessity and Explanation in Aristotle’s Analytics” in Biologie, Logique et Métaphysique chez Aristote, Séminaire CNRS-N.S.F. 1987, edited by Pierre Pelegrin, éditions du CNRS, Paris: 1990.

“Divine Being and Divine Thinking in Metaphysics Lambda” in Proceedings of The Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, Volume III, University Press of America, Lanham Md.: 1987

“Animals and other beings in Aristotle” in Philosophical problems in Aristotle’s Biology, edited by J.Lennox and A.Gotthelf, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge: 1987

Commentary on Teloh, “The Importance of Interlocutors’ Characters in Plato’s Early Dialogues” in Proceedings of The Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, Volume II, University Press of America, Lanham Md.: 1986

“The Naive Narrator: Story and Discourse in Descartes’ Meditations” in Essays on Descartes’ Meditations, edited by A. Rorty, University of California Press, Berkeley 1986

“Substance, Being and Energeia: the Argument of Metaphysics Theta” Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Volume II, Clarendon Press, Oxford: 1984

“Charmides’ First Definition: Sophrosyne as Quietness” in Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy, Volume Two, edited by J. Anton and A. Preuss, SUNY Press, Albany: l983

“Plato” in American Academic Encyclopedia, Princeton, NJ, 1980

“Being Properly Affected: Virtues and Feelings in Aristotle’s Ethics” in Essays on Aristotle’s Ethics, edited by A. Rorty, University of California Press, Berkeley: 1980. Reprinted in Aristotle’s Ethic: Critical Essays, edited by Nancy Sherman, Rowman and Littlefield, New York, 1999

“Perceiving That We Perceive: On the Soul III, 2” Philosophical Review, Volume LXXXIV, No.4, October, 1975

“Platonic Love” in Facets of Plato’s Philosophy, edited by W. W. Werkmeister, Van Gorcum, Assen: 1974; Reprinted in Eros, Agape, and Philia, edited by Alan Soble, Paragon House, New York: 1989

“Understanding, Explanation, and Insight in the Posterior Analytics” in Exegesis and Argument: Studies in Greek Philosophy Presented to Gregory Vlastos, edited by Lee, Mourelatos and Rorty, Van Gorcum, Assen: 1973

“Aristotle on Inconvertible Modal Propositions” Mind. Vol. LXXIX, NS. No.314, April, 1970

“Aristotle’s Definition of Motion” Phronesis, Vol. XIV, No.1, 1969

“Predicating the Good” Phronesis, Vol. XIII, no.2, 1968

“Aristotle’s First Predicament” Review of Metaphysics, Vol. XX, No.3, March 1967; reprinted in Substance and Things, edited by O’Hara, University Press of America, Washington, DC, 1982

Work in press and forthcoming:
“Virtues of Thought”, forthcoming in a volume on Nicomachean Ethics VI edited by Mark Gifford

“Aristotle on the Desirability of Friends” recently delivered at APA and presently under consideration.

The Activity Of Being: Energeia In Aristotle’s Ontology, under consideration.

“Virtue and Justice in Plato’s Republic” in preparation