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

E-mail: afalcon@alcor.concordia.ca

Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Concordia University, Montreal

Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Concordia University, Montreal

Research Fellow (Ricercatore a contratto) at the University of Padua, Italy

Department of Classics, University of Pittsburgh (Associate Professor)

Member in the School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

Department of Philosophy, Virginia Tech (Assistant Professor)

Department of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh (Assistant Professor)

Department of Philosophy, Ohio State University (Lecturer)

Department of Philosophy, University of California at Berkeley (Assistant Professor)

Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Padua, Italy

Doctorate in Philosophy, University of Padua, Italy

Laurea cum laude, University of Venice, Italy

Full-Time Visiting Student
in the Department of Philosophy at King's College KQC, University of London

Full-Time Visiting Student
at Balliol College, University of Oxford

• 'Aristotle and the Science of Nature. Unity without Uniformity'. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge 2005. (Hardback: September 2005. Paperback: January 2008)
  (web-site: cambridge.org)
  
  

  [Reviews: Scott Rubarth, Journal of the History of Philosophy 46.4 (2008): 632-633; Francesco Verde, Syzetesis 2008.9; Pierre Pellegrin, Isis 98.4 (2007): 823-824; Rosamund K. Sprague, Ancient Philosophy (2007): 432-434; David Evans, The British Journal for the History of Philosophy 15 (4) : 785-787; David Williams, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2007.10.03; Lindsay Judson, Archiv fur Geschichte der Philosophie 89.2 (2007): 241-245; David Depew, British Journal for the History of Science, 40.1 (2007): 123-124; John Scott, Philosophy in Review/Comptes rendus philosophiques, 27.1 (2007): 20-22; Frédéric Gain, Revue philosophique de Louvain 105. 1-2 (2007): 210-216; Jude Dougherty, The Review of Metaphysics 60.1 (2006): 154-155].

• 'Corpi e movimenti. Studio sul De caelo di Aristotele e la sua tradizione mondo antico' Bibliopolis Editore: Napoli 2001. (Paperback original).
  
  

  [Review: Anita Ljubic, The Classical Review, 53 (2003): 305-307].

• 'Aristotle on the Scope and Unity of the De anima', in G. Van Riel and P. Destrée (eds.) Ancient Perspectives on Aristotle’s De anima, Leuven University Press. (2010): 167-181.
• 'Plotinus on Celestial Motion', In M. Achard, W. Hankey and J.-M. Narbonne, Perspectives sur le Néoplatonism. Laval University (2009): 51-62.
• 'The Pre-History of the Commentary Tradition: Aristotelianism in the First Century BCE. Prolegomena to a Study of Xenarchus of Seleucia', Laval théologique et philosophique 62.1 (2008): 7-28.
• Aristotele e la materia celeste, in M. Carrara, Mind and Meaning. Studi di filosofia analitica (Padova 2003).
• '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).
• 'División, Definitión y Differencia en los Topicos', Anuario filosófico 35 (2002), pp. 297-312.
• 'Aristotle, Speusippus and the Method of Division', Classical Quarterly N.S. 50.2 (2000), pp. 402-414.
  [available in pdf version, 1.2 Mb]
• 'Senarco di Seleucia e la Dottrina Aristotelica della Quinta Sostanza', in C. Natali-S. Maso (eds.) Antiaristotelismo, (Amsterdam 1999), pp. 92-123.
• '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.
• '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.
  [available in pdf version, 749 Kb]
• 'Aristotele e le teorie sugli eventi', Métexis Revista Argentina de Filosofia Antigua/Argentine Journal of Ancient Philosophy, 7 (1994), pp. 91-103.

• The entry 'Aristotle, commentators' for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (August 2005).
• The entry 'Aristotle on Causality' for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (January 2006).

• Minor Socratics, for the Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome. Michael Gagarin (ed.), Oxford University Press, 2010.
• Xenarchus of Seleucia and Postscript to Plato for the New Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Noretta Koertge (ed.), Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2008.
• The following entries for the Enciclopedia Filosofica, Bompiani, Milano, 2006.
  (Adrasto di Afrodisia, Andronico di Rodi; Aristocle di Messina; Clearco di Soli; Critolao; Diaresis; Epagoge; Differentia specifica; Etere; Fania; Prassifane; Pritanide; Quinta essentia; Predicabile; Satiro; Senarco; Stasea di Napoli; Strabone; Teodoro di Gadara; Tolomeo Peripatetico)
• Xenarchos [4], for Der Neue Pauly: Enzyklopädie der Antike, Verlag J. B. Metzler, Stuttgart-Weimar 2003.
• The following entries for The Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Philosophers, Thoemmes Press, Bristol 2002.
  (Benn, Alfred William; Bussel, Frederick William; Chandler, Henry William; Macmahon, John Henry)

• Review of J. Mansfeld and D. T. Runia, Aëtiana: The Method and Intellectual Context of a Doxographer. Volume Two: The Compendium (2 vols), in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2010.04.48.
• Review of Pseudo-Aristoteles (Pseudo-Alexander) Supplementa Problematorum, A. Kapetanaki and R. W. Sharples (eds.), in Aestimatio 6 (2009): 52-58.
• Critical Note of Aristote, De la génération et la corruption. Texte établi et traduit par Marwan Rashed, Les Belles Lettres 2005, in Rhizai. A Journal of Ancient Philosophy and Ancient Science 4.1 (2007): 163-175
• Review of S. Gersh and D. Moran, Eriugena, Berkeley, and the Idealist Tradition, University of Notre Dame Press 2006, in The Review of Metaphysics 61.1 (2007): 17-19
• Review of O. Bruun and L. Corti (eds.) Les Catégories et leur histoire, Vrin 2005, in The Journal of Hellenic Studies 127 (2007): 245-246
• Review of F. de Haas and J. Mansfeld (eds.) Aristotle’s Generation and Corruption, Book 1, Oxford University Press 2004, in Ancient Philosophy 27 (2007): 200-205
• Review of Richard Kraut (ed.) The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Blackwell Publishing, 2006 in The Classical Review 57.2 (2007): 324-325
• Review of Monica Ugaglia Modelli idrostatici di moto da Aristotele a Galileo, Lateran University Press 2004, in Ancient Philosophy 26 (2006): 415-418
• Review of Jonathan Barnes, 'Porphyry. Introduction', Oxford University Press 2003, in Ancient Philosophy 26 (2006): 462-466.
• Joint review of Diana Quarantotto, 'Causa finale, sostanza, essenza in Aristotele.', Bibliopolis Press 2005, and Monte Ransome Johnson, 'Aristotle on Teleology', Oxford University Press 2005, in Rhizai. A journal of Ancient Philosophy and Ancient Science III 1 (2006): 171-178.
• Review of Vasilis Politis, 'Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Aristotle and the Metaphysics', Routledge, London and New York 2004, in The Classical Review 56.2 (2006): 303-306.
• Review of Ursula Coope, 'Time for Aristotle', Oxford University Press 2005, in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2006.04.01.
• Review of Thomas Kjeller Johansen, 'Plato's Natural Philosophy: A Study of the Timaeus-Critias', Cambridge University Press 2004, in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2005.03.01.
• (together with Peter Machamer) Review of Michael F. Wagner (ed.), 'Neoplatonism and Nature: Studies in Plotinus' Enneads', SUNY 2002, in The Review of Metaphysics, 56 (2003): 688-690.

The entries Peripatetics and Strato of Lampsacus (physicist), in the Encyclopedia of Ancient History Roger Bagnall et al. (eds.), Blackwell Publishing (forthcoming).

Aristotle’s Philosophy of Nature, in J. Warren and F. Sheffield (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Ancient Philosophy.

Fisica, in R. Chiaradonna (ed.) Storia della Filosofia tardo-antica. Carocci editore (delivery expected: May 2010).

Aristotelianism in the 1st Century BCE: Xenarchus of Seleucia , Cambridge University Press (under contract).