Myles Burnyeat

Myles Fredric Burnyeat CBE (born 1 January 1939) ^[1] is an English classicist and philosopher.

Life

Educated at Bryanston School and King’s College, Cambridge, Burnyeat was 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.

From 1984 to 2000 he was married to the poet, Ruth Padel.^[2]

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^[3].

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

He was president of the Aristotelian Society from 2005 to 2006^[4].

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

Publications

• Philosophy As It Is (co-ed.) 1979, ISBN 0140221360
• Doubt and Dogmatism (co-ed.) Clarendon Press 1980, ISBN 0198248725
• Science and Speculation: Studies in Hellenistic Theory and Practice (co-ed.) Cambridge University Press1982, ISBN 0521022185
• The Sceptical Tradition (ed.) University of California Press 1983, ISBN 0520047958
• Notes on Eta and Theta of Aristotle's "Metaphysics": A Study Guide University of Oxford Faculty of Philosophy 1984, ISBN 0905740270
• The Theaetetus of Plato Hackett Publishing Co, Inc 1990, ISBN 0872201597
• The Original Sceptics (co-ed. with Michael Frede) 1997, ISBN 0872203476
• A Map of Metaphysics Zeta 2001, ISBN 093522503X
• Heda Segvic, From Protagoras to Aristotle: Essays in Ancient Moral Philosophy (ed.) by Myles Burnyeat, Princeton University Press 2008, ISBN 0691131236
• Aristotle's Divine Intellect, Marquette University Press 2008, ISBN 0874621755

References

1. ^ ^{a b} British Academy Fellowship entry
2. ^ Relative Values: Ruth Padel and Gwen Burnyeat, The Sunday Times, 8 March 2009
3. ^ Cambridge University database
4. ^ The Aristotelian Society - List of Past Presidents

See also

• Maieusis: Essays in Ancient Philosophy in Honour of Myles Burnyeat, edited by Dominic Scott, Oxford University Press 2007, ISBN 0199289972

External links

• Picture of Myles Burnyeat