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Lloyd P. Gerson

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Lloyd P. Gerson (Dec. 23, 1948, Chicago, Illinois) is an American-Canadian scholar of ancient philosophy, the history of philosophy, metaphysics, and Neoplatonism.[1] He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.[2] He is best-known for his work on Plotinus, particularly his full-length translation of the Enneads that is based primarily on the Henry-Schwyzer editio minor (HS2) Greek text.[3]

Works

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  • God and Greek Philosophy: Studies in the early history of natural theology, London: Routledge, 1990
  • Plotinus, London: Routledge, 1994, (Arguments of the Philosophers Series)
  • Knowing Persons. A Study in Plato, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004
  • Aristotle and Other Platonists, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005
  • Ancient Epistemology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009
  • From Plato to Platonism, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013
  • The Enneads, Cambridge University Press, 2018 (translated and edited with George Boys-Stones, John M. Dillon, R.A. King, Andrew Smith and James Wilberding)
  • Platonism and Naturalism. The Possibility of Philosophy, Cornell University Press, 2020

References

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  1. ^ CV at University of Toronto
  2. ^ Fraumeni, Paul. "Royal Society of Canada honours 19 U of T faculty members". U of T News. University of Toronto. Retrieved 1 May 2021.
  3. ^ Gerson, Lloyd P., ed. (2018). The Enneads. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-00177-0. OCLC 993492241.