Michael Chase - Philosophy as a Way of Life: Ancients and Moderns

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Philosophy as a way of life : ancients and moderns : essays in honor of Pierre Hadot / edited by Michael Chase, Stephen R.L.Clark, Michael McGhee.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4051-6161-9 (cloth)
1. Philosophy. 2. PhilosophyHistory. 3. Spiritual exercisesHistory. 4. Hadot, Pierre. 5. Hadot, Pierre. Exercices spirituels et philosophie antique. I. Hadot, Pierre. II. Chase, Michael, 1959 editor of compilation.
B53.P498 2013
190dc23
2013012717

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Notes on Contributors

Gwenalle Aubry

Former Student of the Ecole Normale Suprieure (Ulm) and of Trinity College (Cambridge); Agrge, docteur en philosophie. Researcher at the CNRS (UPR 76/Centre Jean Ppin). Research interests: Ancient Philosophy and its Contemporary Receptions. Major published work: Plotin. Trait 53 (I, 1) . Introduction, traduction, commentaire et notes, Paris, Cerf, Collection Les Ecrits de Plotin 2004; Dieu sans la puissance. Dunamis et Energeia chez Aristote et chez Plotin, Paris, Vrin, Bibliothque dhistoire de la philosophie 2006; LExcellence de la vie. Sur l Ethique Nicomaque et lEthique Eudme dAristote , G. Romeyer Dherbey dir., G. Aubry d., Paris, Vrin, Bibliothque dhistoire de la philosophie 2002; Le moi et lintriorit. Etudes runies par G. Aubry et F. Ildefonse, Paris, Vrin, Textes et Traditions 2008.

Michael Chase

After taking degrees in Philosophy and Classics at the University of Victoria, Canada, Michael Chase was awarded a Canadian government scholarship to study Neoplatonism under Pierre Hadot at the Section des Sciences Religieuses of the cole Pratique des Hautes tudes, Paris (Sorbonne), whence he received his PhD in 2000. Since 2001, he has worked at the French National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS), where he is currently Researcher in ancient philosophy at the UPR 76/Centre Jean Ppin in Villejuif-Paris. In addition to English translations of half a dozen books by Pierre Hadot, he has published widely on Late Greek and Latin Neoplatonism, Patristics, Islamic, and Medieval thought.

John Cottingham

Professorial Research Fellow at Heythrop College, University of London, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Reading, and an Honorary Fellow of St Johns College, Oxford. He is an authority on early-modern philosophy, especially Descartes, and has published widely on moral philosophy and the philosophy of religion. His recent titles include On the Meaning of Life (Routledge 2003), The Spiritual Dimension (CUP 2005), Cartesian Reflections (OUP 2008), and Why Believe? (Continuum 2009). He is editor of the international philosophical journal Ratio.

Jonardon Ganeri

His work has focused on a retrieval of the Sanskrit philosophical tradition in relation to contemporary analytical philosophy, and he has done work in this vein on theories of self, concepts of rationality, and the philosophy of language, as well as on the idea of philosophy as a practice and its relationship with literature. He is Professor of Philosophy at both the University of Sussex and Monash University, a visiting scholar at Kyunghee University Seoul, and a visiting professor at JNU Delhi. His major recent publications include The Self: Naturalism, Consciousness and the First-Person Stance (OUP 2012), The Lost Age of Reason: Philosophy in Early Modern India 14501700CE (OUP 2011), and The Concealed Art of the Soul: Theories of Self and Practices of Truth in Indian Ethics and Epistemology (OUP 2012, 2nd edition).

Richard Goulet

Emeritus Research Fellow at French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, editor of the Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques (sixth and final volume, for letters SZ, to be published in 2013). Works on philosophical prosopography, late antique lives of philosophers, stoic philosophy; edited, translated or studied texts of Cleomedes, Diogenes Laertius, Eunapius, Macarius of Magnesia, and Porphyry.

Matthew T. Kapstein

Director of Tibetan Studies at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, and Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Chicago. His publications include The Tibetan Assimilation of Buddhism: Conversion, Contestation, and Memory (OUP 2000) and Reasons Traces: Identity and Interpretation in Indian and Tibetan Buddhist Thought (Boston 2001).

Theodore Kobusch

Professor of Medieval Philosophy, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitt Bonn. His research interests lie in the history of philosophy, metaphysics, freedom of will, and personhood. Major published work : Die Philosophie des Hoch- und Sptmittelalters (2011).

Fernando Leal

Professor of Philosophy and Social Science at the University of Guadalajara (Mexico). He currently works on the interface between ethics, economics, and politics; on the history, philosophy, and methodology of the social and cognitive sciences; and on the application of linguistic theory to the study of neurodevelopmental disorders. He co-edited Person-Centred Ergonomics: The Brantonian View of Human Factors (Taylor & Francis 1993) and recently authored two books in Spanish: A Dialogue on the Good (2007) and Essays on the Relation Between Philosophy and the Sciences (2009).