Mary Louise Gill
Professor of Philosophy and Classics:
Gerard House 306
Phone: +1 401 863 3219
Phone 2: +1 401 863 2718
Mary_Louise_Gill@brown.edu
Mary Louise Gill specializes in ancient Greek philosophy with an emphasis on Plato and Aristotle. She is the author of Aristotle on Substance: The Paradox of Unity (Princeton University Press), and she co-translated and wrote the introduction for Plato: Parmenides (Hackett Publishing). She is co-editor of Self-Motion: From Aristotle to Newton (Princeton); Unity, Identity, and Explanation in Aristotle's Metaphysics (Oxford University Press), and most recently, A Companion to Ancient Philosophy (Blackwell Publishing).
Biography
Mary Louise Gill joined the Brown Philosophy and Classics Departments in 2001 after teaching at the University of Pittsburgh. She has held visiting appointments at Dartmouth, Stanford, UCLA, UC Davis, and Harvard. She has been a fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center, a visiting fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge, a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard.
Interests
Mary Louise Gill is currently working on two book projects: Aristotle's Meteorology, Book IV (Aristotle's chemical treatise), which will contain translation, introduction, and notes with James G. Lennox and will be forthcoming in the Clarendon Aristotle Series (Oxford University Press); also, Plato's Missing Dialogue, a book on Plato's later epistemology and dialectic, with a focus on the Theaetetus, Sophist, and Statesman, dialogues that connect themselves dramatically with the promised but unwritten Philosopher.
Degrees
Ph. D., Cambridge University
Awards
- Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, 2005-2006
- National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 2004
- Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University, 1999-2000
- Associate Fellow, Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, 2001-
- Resident Fellow, Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, 1996-2001
- Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge University, Easter Term 1994
- Life Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge University, 1994-
- President's Distinguished Research Award (Junior Scholar Category), University of Pittsburgh, 1990
- Visiting Scholar, Princeton University, Fall 1989
- Ethel Wattis Kimball Fellowship, Stanford Humanities Center, 1985-1986
Affiliations
- American Philological Association
- American Philosophical Association
- Co-Editor, Ancient Philosophy, 1988-; Book Review Editor, 1983-1988
- Editorial Board, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2002-2007
- Editorial Board, History of Philosophy Quarterly, 1990-1993
- Advisory Committee to the Program Committee, American Philosophical Association (Eastern Division), 2002-2005
- PL0025 Ancient Philosophy
- PL0126 Plato
- PL0125 Aristotle
- PL0215 Topics in Ancient Philosophy
- CL0112 Myth and the Origins of Science
- GR0111 Greek philosophical texts
- GR0211 Greek philosophical texts
Mary Louise Gill's teaching focuses on topics in ancient Greek philosophy and ancient science.Funded Research
2005-2006
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study ($60,000)
2004
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend ($5,000)
1999-2000
Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton ($35,000)
1985-1986
Ethel Wattis Kimbell Fellowship, Stanford Humanities Center ($23,000)Curriculum Vitae