Lloyd P. Gerson
American Neoplatonism scholar (born 1948)
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Lloyd Phillip Gerson (Dec. 23, 1948, Chicago, Illinois) is an American-Canadian professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Toronto.[1]
BornDecember 23, 1948
Lloyd P. Gerson | |
|---|---|
| Born | December 23, 1948 |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Toronto (PhD) |
| Thesis | The Unity of Plato's "Parmenides" (1975) |
| Academic work | |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| Institutions | University of Toronto |
Gerson is a scholar of ancient philosophy, the history of philosophy, metaphysics, and Neoplatonism.[2] He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.[3] 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.[4]
Works
- 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
- Plato's Moral Realism. Cambridge University Press, 2023.