Terence Irwin
Terence Henry Irwin FBA, usually cited as T. H. Irwin, is a scholar and philosopher specializing in ancient Greek philosophy and the history of ethics. He was the Professor of the History of Philosophy at the University of Oxford, and Fellow of Keble College, Oxford from 2007 until 2017.Education and career
Irwin was an undergraduate at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he graduated with a BA in Literae Humaniores in 1969. He then studied at Princeton University with Gregory Vlastos, and graduated with a PhD in Philosophy in 1973. He was Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University and then, from 1975 until 2007, he was at Cornell University, where he served as Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy and Humane Letters, Professor of Classics, and Professor of Philosophy. He moved to Oxford in 2007, and retired in 2017.
Irwin is a Fellow of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the British Academy. He is married to Gail Fine, professor of philosophy at Cornell University and visiting professor of ancient philosophy at Oxford.Publications
- Plato's Moral Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977.
- Plato's Gorgias. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979.
- Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1985.
- Aristotle's First Principles. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988.
- Classical Thought. OPUS Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988.
- Plato's Ethics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
- The Development of Ethics, Vol. 1. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
- The Development of Ethics, Vol. 2. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
- The Development of Ethics, Vol. 3. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
In addition, Irwin has published almost 100 essays and articles in journals and volumes of conference proceedings.
