Marko Malink

Marko Malink is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Classics. He received an M. A. from the University of Leipzig (2004), where he studied Logic and Ancient Greek. He earned a Dr. Phil. in Philosophy from Humboldt University of Berlin (2008). His primary area of research is ancient philosophy, especially ancient logic and metaphysics. Malink also has interests in the history of logic, philosophy of language, and linguistics. His book Aristotle’s Modal Syllogistic was published by Harvard University Press in 2013. His co-authored article “A Method of Modal Proof in Aristotle” (with Jacob Rosen) was selected by The Philosopher’s Annual as one of the ten best articles published in philosophy in 2012. His article “The Beginnings of Formal Logic: Deduction in Aristotle’s Topics vs. Prior Analytics” was selected by The Philosopher’s Annual as one of the ten best articles published in philosophy in 2015. Prior to joining the Faculty at NYU in 2014, Malink has held positions at Humboldt University of Berlin and the University of Chicago.

Aristotle’s Modal Syllogistic (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013)

• "Aristotle on Principles as Elements" forthcoming in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 53.
• "The Logic of Leibniz's Generales Inquisitiones de Analysi Notionum et Veritatum" (with Anubav Vasudevan), Review of Symbolic Logic 9 (2016): 686–751.
• "Aristotle on One-Sided Possibility", Logical Modalities from Aristotle to Carnap: The Story of Necessity, edited by M. Cresswell, E. Mares, and A. Rini (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2016), 29–49
• "The Beginnings of Formal Logic: Deduction in Aristotle's Topics vs. Prior Analytics", Phronesis 60 (2015): 267–309
• "Précis of Aristotle’s Modal Syllogistic" and "Replies to Critics", book symposium in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 90 (2015): 716–723 and 748–762
• "Deduction in Sophistici Elenchi 6", in Strategies of Argument: Essays in Ancient Ethics, Epistemology, and Logic, edited by Mi-Kyoung Lee (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014): 149–174
• "Proof by Assumption of the Possible in Prior Analytics 1.15" (with Jacob Rosen), Mind 122 (2013): 953-986
• “Aristotle on Circular Proof”, Phronesis 58 (2013): 215–248
• "Essence and Being: A Discussion of Michail Peramatzis, Priority in Aristotle’s Metaphysics", Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 45 (2013): 341–360
• "A Method of Modal Proof in Aristotle" (with Jacob Rosen), Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 42 (2012): 179–261
• "Figures of Prosleptic Syllogisms in Prior Analytics 2.7", Classical Quarterly 62 (2012): 163–178
• Four handbook articles: "Organon", "Modalitäten", "Syllogismos", "Wirkung: Logik", in Aristoteles–Handbuch, edited by C. Rapp and K. Corcilius, (Stuttgart: Metzler, 2011): 65–74, 275–80, 343–8, 480–4
• "A Non-Extensional Notion of Conversion in the Organon", Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 37 (2009): 105–141
• "Indeterminate Propositions in Prior Analytics 1.41", Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy 12 (2009): 165–189
• "ΤΩΙ vs ΤΩΝ in Prior Analytics 1.1–22", Classical Quarterly 58 (2008): 519–536
• "Categories in Topics 1.9", Rhizai. Journal for Ancient Philosophy and Science 4 (2007): 271–294
• "A Reconstruction of Aristotle’s Modal Syllogistic", History and Philosophy of Logic 27 (2006): 95–141

• Review of L. Castagnoli: Ancient Self-Refutation (Cambridge UP), in Classical Philology 107 (2012): 367–371
• Review of T. Ebert & U. Nortmann: Aristoteles. Analytica priora I (Akademie Verlag Berlin), in History and Philosophy of Logic 30 (2009): 389–396
• Review of J. Barnes: Truth, etc. Six Lectures in Ancient Logic (Oxford UP), in Gnomon 80 (2008): 676–681
• Review of P. Crivelli: Aristotle on Truth (Cambridge UP), in Philosophie Antique 6 (2006): 208–211