Robert J Hankinson
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Professor
PhD, Cambridge
Contact
E-mail: rjhankinson@mail.utexas.eduPhone: 471-5572
Office: WAG 409
Office Hours: MW 12:00-1:00
Campus Mail Code: C3500
Interests
Ancient philosophy, early modern philosophy, metaphysics, history and philosophy of scienceBiography
Field: Ancient Philosophy and Medicine, Philosophy of Science
A classical philosophy scholar, he has a special interest in ancient medicine and philosophy of science. He is author of The Sceptics (1995) in the Routledge 'Arguments of the Philosophers' Series, and Cause and Explanation in Ancient Greek Thought (Oxford, 1998). He has edited Method, Medicine, and Metaphysics (1988). His editions and translations, with philosophical commentary, include Galen's On the Therapeutic Method (Oxford, 1991), Galen on Antecedent Causes (Cambridge, 1998), Aristotle's de Caelo (Oxford, forthcoming in two volumes), and Simplicius' Commentary on de Caelo. (Volume I, Simplicius: On Aristotle On the Heavens 1.1-4 (Duckworth/Cornell, 2002) has appeared; two more volumes are forthcoming.) He is the editor of Apeiron.


