Michael Frede (German: [ˈfʁeːdə]; 31 May 1940 – 11 August 2007) was a prominent scholar of ancient philosophy, described by The Telegraph as "one of the most important and adventurous scholars of ancient philosophy of recent times."[1]
Michael Frede | |
|---|---|
| Born | 31 May 1940 |
| Died | 11 August 2007 (aged 67) |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
Main interests | Ancient philosophy |
Education and career
editFrede earned his Ph.D. at the University of Göttingen in 1966 and worked there as an assistant (Wissenschaftlicher Assistent) from 1966 to 1971.[1]
He joined the faculty of the philosophy department at University of California, Berkeley[2] as an assistant professor (1971) and quickly rose to the status of full professor. From 1976 to 1991, he was a professor at the Princeton University Philosophy Department.[3]
He returned to Europe in 1991 and took the chair in the history of philosophy at the University of Oxford.[4] In 1997-8 he returned to Berkeley to lecture on free will as the 84th visiting Sather Professor of Classical Literature; the resulting book was published posthumously.[5] He retired from Oxford in 2005 and lived in Athens, Greece, until his death in a drowning accident in 2007.[1]
He was a Member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of both the British Academy (elected 1994)[6] and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Selected works
edit- Pradikation und Existenzaussage: Platons Gebrauch von "...ist..." und "...ist nicht..." im Sophistes, 1967[1]
- Die Stoische Logik, 1974[1]
- Galen. Three Treatises on the Nature of Science (co-edited with Richard Walzer), 1985
- Essays in Ancient Philosophy, 1987[1]
- Aristoteles 'Metaphysik Z': Text, Übersetzung und Kommentar, 2 vols (with Günther Patzig), 1988[1]
- The Original Sceptics: A Controversy (co-edited with Myles Burnyeat), 1997
- Rationality in Greek Thought (co-edited with Gisela Striker), 1999[1]
- Pagan Monotheism in Late Antiquity (co-edited with Polymnia Athanassiadi), 2001[1]
- Aristotle's Metaphysics Book Lambda (co-edited with David Charles), 2001[7]
- A Free Will: origins of the notion in ancient thought (edited by A. A. Long with a foreword by David Sedley), 2011
- The Pseudo-Platonic Seventh Letter (Uehiro Series in Practical Ethics), (co-author with Myles Burnyeat) Oxford University Press 2015[8]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Professor Michael Frede". The Daily Telegraph. 15 October 2007. Retrieved 8 August 2017.
- ^ "UC Berkeley - Department of Philosophy". Archived from the original on 18 December 2008. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
- ^ Princeton University Department of Philosophy - Home
- ^ Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford
- ^ "Death of Former Sather Professor Michael Frede - UC Berkeley Department of Classics". Archived from the original on 26 August 2007. Retrieved 1 September 2007.
- ^ "Deceased Fellows - British Academy". www.britac.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 16 July 2015. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
- ^ Shields, Christopher (11 May 2002). "Review of Aristotle's Metaphysics Book Lambda". ISSN 1538-1617.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ Price, A. W. (July 2016). "The Pseudo-Platonic Seventh Letter By Myles Burnyeat and Michael Frede (ed. Dominic Scott) Oxford University Press, 2015, pp. xv + 224, £30 ISBN 978-0-19-873365-2" (PDF). Philosophy. 91 (3): 450–453. doi:10.1017/S0031819116000188. ISSN 0031-8191. S2CID 171010874.