Myles Burnyeat

Myles Fredric Burnyeat CBE FBA (born 1 January 1939)^[1] is an English scholar of ancient philosophy.

Life

Educated at Bryanston School and King’s College, Cambridge, Burnyeat was subsequently a student of Bernard Williams at University College London.

He became an assistant lecturer in philosophy at University College London in 1964, and a lecturer in 1965. In 1978, he was appointed a lecturer in classics at the University of Cambridge, and became a fellow of the new Robinson College, Cambridge, where he remained until 1996.

In 1984, he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy^[1] and appointed as the fifth Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Cambridge, a position he held until 1996.^[2]

From 1996, he was Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy at All Souls College, Oxford, before returning in 2006 to Robinson College, Cambridge.

He was president of the Aristotelian Society from 2005 to 2006.^[3]

In 2007, he was made CBE and a Festschrift in his honour (Maieusis: Essays in Ancient Philosophy in Honour of Myles Burnyeat) was published.

From 1984 to 2000 he was married to the classicist and poet Ruth Padel.^[4] From winter 2002 until her death in spring 2003 he was married to the scholar of ancient philosophy Heda Segvic, whose essays he prepared for publication.^[5]

Publications

• Philosophy As It Is (co-ed.) 1979, ISBN 0-14-022136-0
• Notes on Book Zeta of Aristotle's Metaphysics, being the record by Myles Burnyeat and others of a seminar held in London, 1975-1979, Oxford: Sub-faculty of Philosophy, 1979,
• Doubt and Dogmatism (co-ed.) Clarendon Press 1980, ISBN 0-19-824872-5
• Science and Speculation: Studies in Hellenistic Theory and Practice (co-ed.) Cambridge University Press 1982, ISBN 0-521-02218-5
• The Sceptical Tradition (ed.) University of California Press 1983, ISBN 0-520-04795-8
• Notes on Books Eta and Theta of Aristotle's Metaphysics, being the record by Myles Burnyeat and others of a seminar held in London, 1979-1982, Oxford: Sub-faculty of Philosophy, 1984, ISBN 0-905740-27-0
• The Theaetetus of Plato Hackett 1990, ISBN 0-87220-159-7
• The Original Sceptics (co-ed. with Michael Frede) 1997, ISBN 0-87220-347-6
• A Map of Metaphysics Zeta Mathesis Publications, 2001, ISBN 0-935225-03-X
• Heda Segvic, From Protagoras to Aristotle: Essays in Ancient Moral Philosophy (ed.), Princeton University Press 2008, ISBN 0-691-13123-6
• Aristotle's Divine Intellect, Marquette University Press 2008, ISBN 0-87462-175-5
• Explorations in Ancient and Modern Philosophy, Vol. 1, Cambridge University Press 2012, ISBN 0-521-75072-5
• Explorations in Ancient and Modern Philosophy, Vol. 2, Cambridge University Press 2012, ISBN 0-521-75073-3

See also

• Maieusis: Essays in Ancient Philosophy in Honour of Myles Burnyeat, edited by Dominic Scott, Oxford University Press 2007, ISBN 0-19-928997-2

References

1. 1 2 British Academy Fellowship entry
2. ↑ Cambridge University database
3. ↑ The Aristotelian Society - The Council
4. ↑ Relative Values: Ruth Padel and Gwen Burnyeat, The Sunday Times, 8 March 2009
5. ↑ Introduction by Charles Brittain to From Protagoras to Aristotle: Essays in Ancient Moral Philosophy by Heda Segvic