Lloyd P. Gerson
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Lloyd P. Gerson (Dec. 23, 1948, Chicago, Illinois) is an American-Canadian scholar of ancient philosophy, the history of philosophy, metaphysics, and Neoplatonism.[https://utoronto.academia.edu/LloydGerson/CurriculumVitae CV] at University of Toronto He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.{{cite web |last1=Fraumeni |first1=Paul |title=Royal Society of Canada honours 19 U of T faculty members |url=https://www.utoronto.ca/news/royal-society-canada-honours-19-u-t-faculty-members |website=U of T News |publisher=University of Toronto |access-date=1 May 2021}} He is best-known for his work on Plotinus, particularly his full-length translation of the Enneads that is based primarily on the Henry-Schwyzer editio minor (HS2) Greek text.{{cite book|editor-last=Gerson|editor-first=Lloyd P.|title=The Enneads|publisher=Cambridge University Press|publication-place=Cambridge|year=2018|isbn=978-1-107-00177-0|oclc=993492241}}
Works
- God and Greek Philosophy: Studies in the early history of natural theology, London: Routledge, 1990
- Plotinus, London: Routledge, 1994, (Arguments of the Philosophers Series)
- Knowing Persons. A Study in Plato, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004
- Aristotle and Other Platonists, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005
- Ancient Epistemology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009
- From Plato to Platonism, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013
- The Enneads, Cambridge University Press, 2018 (translated and edited with George Boys-Stones, John M. Dillon, R.A. King, Andrew Smith and James Wilberding)
- Platonism and Naturalism. The Possibility of Philosophy, Cornell University Press, 2020
- Plato's Moral Realism. Cambridge University Press, 2023.
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Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
Category:American historians of philosophy
Category:Canadian historians of philosophy
Category:Academics from Chicago