Myles Burnyeat
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Myles Fredric Burnyeat CBE (born 1939) is an English classicist and philosopher.
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 1996 he was the fifth Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Cambridge.
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.
[edit] Publications
- Philosophy As It Is (co-ed.) 1979
- Doubt and Dogmatism (co-ed.) 1980
- Science and Speculation (co-ed.) 1982
- The Sceptical Tradition (ed.) 1983
- The Theaetetus of Plato 1990
- The Original Sceptics (co-ed.) 1997
- A Map of Metaphysics Zeta 2001
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| Preceded by Gwilym Ellis Lane Owen |
Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy Cambridge University 1984 - 1996 |
Succeeded by Gisela Striker |
| Preceded by Timothy Williamson |
President of the Aristotelian Society 2005 - 2006 |
Succeeded by Thomas Baldwin |
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