One of the foremost historians of ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Richard Sorabji is the Founder and Director of the International Project on the Aristotle Commentators. With over 70 volumes published so far, these translations have made accessible the influential period of philosophy and science between Greek and Roman antiquity and the Islamic and Latin-speaking Middle Ages. He also founded the King’s College Centre for Philosophical Studies, one of the aims of which was to promote the study of philosophy to the wider public.

Professor Sorabji taught at Cornell and King’s College London and is Honorary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. He was Director of the Institute of Classical Studies in London and Gresham Professor of Rhetoric. He is returning to NYU, having been the Antonina S. Ranieri Distinguished Visiting Scholar (2001-03).

Professor Sorabji’s books include three on the philosophy of the physical universe, Necessity, Cause and Blame (1980); Time, Creation and the Continuum (1983); and Matter, Space and Motion (1988) and four on philosophy of mind and ethics, Aristotle on Memory (1972), Animal Minds and Human Morals (1993), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation (2000), and Self: Ancient and Modern Insights about Individuality, Life and Death (2006). He has published a 3-volume Sourcebook, The Philosophy of the Commentators 200-600AD (2004) and co-edited The Ethics of War: Shared Problems in Different Traditions (2006) and Greek and Roman Philosophy 100 BC to 200 AD in two volumes (2007). Named Commander of the British Empire (C.B.E.) for his services to Ancient Philosophy, Professor Sorabji is an honorary foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Fellow of the British Academy.