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CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY
Philosophy
1455 Boulevard de Maisonneuve Ouest
Montreal, Quebec, H3G 1M8, Canada

E-mail: afalcon@alcor.concordia.ca

Telephone: (514) 848-2424 ext 2516 (office)

1ST CLASS HONORS DEGREE PHILOSOPHY
at the University of Venice
Title of Thesis: Aristotle's Rhetoric
(Supervisor: Professor Carlo Natali)

DOCTORATE IN PHILOSOPHY
at the University of Padua
Title of Thesis: Aristotle's Theory of Division
(Supervisors: Professor Enrico Berti, Professor Mario Mignucci)

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP
at the University of Padua

FULL-TIME MATRICULATED VISITING STUDENT
at Balliol College, University of Oxford
(Supervisors: Professor Jonathan Barnes, Professor Michael Frede)

VISITING STUDENT
at King's College KQC, University of London
(Supervisor: Professor Richard R. K. Sorabji)

VISITING STUDENT
at Keble College, University of Oxford
(Supervisor: Professor Michael Frede)

Goethe Institut, Frankfurt

Zertifikat Deutch als Fremdsprache
(1ST Level Certificate in German as a Foreign Language)

Europa Kolleg, Kassel
(awarded an Internationaler Jugendaustausch und Besucherdienst der Bundesrepublik Deutchsland Studentship)

Goethe Institut, Padua

Zeugnis Zentrale Mittelstufenprüfung
(2ND Level Certificate in German as a Foreign Language)

St. Giles College, Brighton

Higher Certificate in Spoken English and Comprehension (Oxford University)

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
in the Department of Philosophy at Concordia University

RESEARCH FELLOW in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Padua
(Brief description: a four-year research fellowship in Ancient Philosophy to study Aristotle and the Aristotelian tradition from the Hellenistic Time to Late Antiquity)

VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley

VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR in the Department of Philosophy at the Ohio State University

VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh

VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR in the Department of Philosophy at Virginia Tech

• 'Corpi e movimenti. Studio sul De caelo di Aristotele e la sua tradizione mondo antico' (Napoli: Bibliopolis 2001).
  (Brief description: a study of Aristotle's doctrine of the fifth element ad its tradition from the Hellenistic Time to Late Antiquity. Pages 265; web-site: bibliopolis.it)
• 'Aristotle and the Science of Nature. Unity without Uniformity'(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2005).
  (web-site: cambridge.org)

• 'Aristotele e le teorie sugli eventi', Métexis Revista Argentina de Filosofia Antigua/Argentine Journal of Ancient Philosophy, 7 (1994), pp. 91-103.
• 'Aristotle's Rules of Division in The Topics: Remarks on the Relationship between Genus and Differentia in a Division', Ancient Philosophy, 16 (1996), pp. 377-387.
• 'Aristotle Theory of Division', in R.R.K. Sorabji (ed.) Aristotle and After, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies. Supplementary Volume 68 (London 1997), pp. 127-146.
• 'Senarco di Seleucia e la Dottrina Aristotelica della Quinta Sostanza', in C. Natali-S. Maso (eds.) Antiaristotelismo, (Amsterdam 1999), pp. 92-123.
• 'Aristotle, Speusippus and the Method of Division', Classical Quarterly N.S. 50.2 (2000), pp. 402-414.
• 'División, Definitión y Differencia en los Topicos', Anuario filosófico 35 (2002), pp. 297-312.
• 'A Late Ancient Discussion of Celestial Motion. PSI XIV 1400', in Papiri filosofici. Miscellanea di studi IV (Firenze 2002).
  (Brief description: a study of PSI XIV 1400, a papyrus fragment to be placed in the context of the sixth-century debate on the stuff of the heavens. The edition, translation and commentary will be also published in the Corpus dei Papiri Filosofici Greci e Latini published by Olschki, Firenze).
• 'Aristotele e la materia celeste', in M. Carrara, Mind and Meaning. Studi di filosofia analitica (Padova 2003).

• The entry 'Aristotle, commentators' for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (August 2005).
• The entry 'Aristotle, Causality' for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (January 2006).
• 4 entries for The Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Philosophers (Bristol, May 2002).
  (Brief description: 'Benn, Alfred William'; 'Bussel, Frederick William'; 'Chandler, Henry William'; 'Macmahon, John Henry'. Each entry offers a glimpse of the subject's life, doctrine and contribution to the history of ideas, and provides bibliographical pointers to further research materials).
• The entry 'Xenarchos von Seleukia' for Der Neue Pauly: Enzyklopädie der Antike (Stuttgart 2003).
• 8 entries for the Enciclopedia Filosofica (Milano, forthcoming).
  (Brief description: 'Adrasto di Afrodisia', 'Andronico di Rodi', 'Diaresis', 'Epagoge', 'Differentia', 'Etere', 'Quinta essentia', 'Predicabile').
• The entry 'Xenarchus of Seleucia' for the New Dictionary of Scientific Biographies.

• (together with Peter Machamer) Review of Michael F. Wagner (ed.), 'Neoplatonism and Nature: Studies in Plotinus' Enneads', in The Review of Metaphysics, 56 (2003), pp. 688-690.
• Review of Jonathan Barnes, 'Porphyry. Introduction', in Ancient Philosophy (forthcoming Fall 2006).
• Review of Thomas Kjeller Johansen, 'Plato's Natural Philosophy: A Study of the Timaeus-Critias', in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2005.03.01.
• Review of Ursula Coope, 'Time for Aristotle', in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2006.04.01.
• Review of Vasilis Politis, 'Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Aristotle and the Metaphysics', in The Classical Review 56.2 (2006), pp. 303-306.
• Review of Diana Quarantotto, 'Causa finale, sostanza, essenza in Aristotele.' and Monte Ransome Johnson, 'Aristotle on Teleology', in Rhizai 3.1 (2006): 111-118.
• Review of Monica Ugaglia 'Modelli idrostatici di moto da Aristotele a Galileo', (Roma 2003), in Ancient Philosophy (forthcoming Spring 2007).
• Review of F. de Haas and J. Mansfeld (eds.) 'Aristotle’s Generation and Corruption', Book 1 (Oxford 2004) in Ancient Philosophy (forthcoming Spring 2007).

'Xenarchus of Seleucia and Aristotelianism in the First Century BCE'.
(Brief description: translation from the Greek, with introduction and notes, of all the surviving testimonies concerning Xenarchus of Seleucia, one of the earliest interpreters of Aristotle. Xenarchus' activity will be placed in its historical context, the revival of interest in Aristotle's philosphy that took place in the first century BCE. The impact of this work throughout antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance will be traced and evaluated).

'Aristotele, Topici'.
(Brief description: translation from the Greek, with introduction and notes, of Aristotle's Topics. This is part of a project of translating the whole Organon of Aristotle, and is to be published by the Laterza Press, Bari (Italy). It will be the standard text for Italian universities replacing the Colli edition. Professor Mario Mignucci is the general editor of the project).

Paper presented at the International Conference on Philosophical Issues in Aristotle's Biology and the Life Sciences held in July at King's College London, the Institute of Classical Studies, and The Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. (Title: Aristotle's Theory of Division).

Paper presented at the Berkeley Conference in Ancient Philosophy, November 17-19. (Title: The Relevance of the Study of the Celestial Bodies for Aristotle's Science of Nature).

Paper presented at the Central European University, Budapest, July 3. (Title: Aristotle's Project of Investigation into Nature).

Commentator at the Princeton Classical Philosophy Conference, Princeton, December 1-2.

Paper presented at the Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh (Title: On the Unity and Structure of Aristotle's Science of Nature).

Paper presented at HOPOS 2006, (Title: Aristotle on the Unity of the Soul and Life).

Paper presented at the ISNS Conference, (Title: Plotinus on Celestial Motion).

Paper presented at the conferenceReading Aristotle’s De anima, Bishop’s University, September 28-30, 2006.

Symposium Aristotelicum on the first book of the On Generation and Corruption.

Symposium Aristotelicum on the third book of the Metaphysics (Metaphysics Beta).

INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL
at The Institute of Classical Studies, London
(Brief Description: this was the first systematic look at the ancient exegesis of Aristotle and Plato in the period 200-600 AD. The workshop was attended by scholars from all over the world and I spoke about later interpretations of the physics of Plato in the Timaeus).

GRADUATE SEMINAR
on the De caelo of Aristotle at Oriel College, University of Oxford.

VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley

Courses Taught

PHIL 161 - Aristotle
40 students: A survey course on Aristotle
PHIL 187 - Special Topics in the History of Philosophy
12 students: Aristotle's Science of Nature

VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
in the Philosophy Department at The Ohio State University

Courses Taught

PHIL 101 - Introduction to Philosophy
80 students, general introduction to some metaphysics, epistemology and ethics
PHIL 130 - Introduction to Ethics
42 students, history, theory and contemporary issues
PHIL H111 - The Self in Antiquity
21 honors student: important ideas an significant developments in the conception of the self in antiquity (Plato, Plotinus and Augustine)
PHIL H112 - The Self in Modern Times
25 honors students: important ideas and theories of the self arising form Locke
PHIL 301 - Introduction to Ancient Philosophy
80 students: a survey course on ancient philosophy

VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
in the Department of Philosophy at The University of Pittsburgh

Courses Taught

PHIL 200 - History of Ancient Philosophy
120 students: a survey course on ancient philosophy
PHIL 1060 - Hellenistic Philosophy
22 honors students: Stoic physics and its significance for the Stoic system
PHIL 1214 - Aristotle
30 students: Introduction to Aristotle
PHIL 2041 - Aristotle' s Science of Nature
12 graduate students - a seminar on Aristotle, Physics 1 and 2 and the Parts of Animals 1

Directed Studies
Aristotle, De anima
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
in the Department of Philosophy at Virginia Tech

Courses Taught

PHIL 2115 - Ancient Philosophy
80 students: a survey course on ancient philosophy
PHIL 6141 - Aristotle on Soul and Life
13 Students: a graduate seminar on Aristotle's De anima
PHIL 1204 - Knowledge and Reality
80 students: a lower division course on knowledge and reality
PHIL 6141 - Ancient Stoicism
12 students: a graduate seminar on Ancient Stoicism
PHIL 2116 - God and Reason in the Middle Ages
40 students: an upper division survey of medioeval philosophy

Directed Studies
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
Plato, Republic

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
in the Department of Philosophy at Concordia University

Courses Taught

PHIL 260/2 A - Before and After Socrates
75 students: a survey of Greek philosophy from the beginning to Plato.
PHIL 265/2 AA - Introduction to Metaphysics
65 students: an introduction to the study of philosophy with an emphasis on the so-called problem of the external world.
PHIL 260/4 B - Before and after Socrates
44 students: a survey of Greek philosophy from thebeginning to Plato.
PHIL 261/4 A - Aristotle and after
63 students: an introduction to Aristotle and the main lines of thought in Hellenistic Philosophy.

History of Philosophy

Ancient Philosophy

Although my focus is Aristotle and his philosophy of nature, my interest in the ancient world is wide-ranging, and extends to include study of how ancient theories have been received in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and also modern times.

Greek, Latin, English, French, German, Italian.