Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy

This latest volume of BACAP Proceedings contains some innovative research by international scholars on Plato and Aristotle. It covers such themes as Plato on recollection and on justice, along with Aristotle on Nous and on law.This publication has also been published in hardback, please click here for details.

John J. Cleary, Ph.D. is Professor of Philosophy at Boston College and Senior Lecturer at NUI Maynooth (Ireland). He received his B.A. and M.A. from University College Dublin, and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Boston University in 1982. He was the director of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy from 1984 to 1988, and is the founding general editor for this series of Proceedings. He has published widely on ancient philosophy, including Aristotle on the Many Senses of Priority (Carbondale (IL), 1987) and Aristotle and Mathematics (Brill, 1995). Currently he is researching the role of mathematics in the theology of Proclus, as well as analysing Aristotle’s Metaphysics M & N for Project Archelogos.Gary M. Gurtler, S.J., Ph.D. is Professor of Philosophy at Boston College. He was educated at St. John Fisher College, at Fordham University, and the Weston School of Theology. He has published extensively on ancient philosophy, with special attention to Neoplatonism, including a book on Plotinus: The Experience of Unity (Lang, 1988). Currently, he is concluding research on the psychology of Plotinus.