Richard Sorabji#
| Membership Number: | 3738 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHILOSOPHY, THEOLOGY & RELIGIOUS STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2014 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.richardsorabji.co.uk |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2002 - Honorary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford
- 2000 - Professor Emeritus and Fellow of King's College, London
- 2004 - 2007 and 2010 Graduate Center, City University of New York, visiting Professor
- 2007 - 2009 Cyprus Global Distinguished Professor of Classics, New York University
- 2000 - 2003 Professor of Rhetoric at Gresham College, London
- 2001 - 2003 Adjunct Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, Dept of Philosophy
- 2000 - 2003 Antonina S.Ranieri Distinguished Visiting Scholar, New York University
- 1981 - 2000 Professor of Ancient Philosophy King's College London
- 1991 - 1996 Director of the Institute of Classical Studies University of London
- 1968 - 1969 Cornell University, associate professor
Fields of Scholarship
- Transmission of Greek to Arabic philosophy
- Indian philosophy
- Ethics
- Philosophy of physics and metaphysics
- History of Greek and Roman Philosophy (all branches) to 600CE
- Philosophy of mind
- Influence of Greek philosophy
Honours and Awards
- Fellow of the British Academy since 1989 (F.B.A.), in sections of Philosophy, Classics and up to 1994 Theology
- Fellow of King’s College, from 1990
- Fellow of King’s College, from 1990
- Honorary Fellow of Wolfson College from 2002
- C.B.E., awarded 1999, (for services to Ancient Philosophy)
- Gifford Lectures 1996-1997, later published in 2000 as Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation (Oxford University Press)
- 1997 Foreign honorary member American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2008 Foreign member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Arts and Sciences of Belgium
- 2007 Honorary Doctor of Letters, Union College Schenectady
- 2009 Honorary Doctor of Letters, McGill University
- Festschriften:
- 1. Ricardo Salles, ed., Metaphysics, Souls, and Ethics: Themes from the Work of Richard Sorabji, Oxford University Press, 2004
- 2-3. Peter Adamson, Hans Baltussen, Martin Stone, eds., Philosophy, Science and Exegesis in Greek, Latin and Arabic Commentaries, 2 vols, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, 2004
