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Michael T. Ferejohn, Associate Professor, Philosophy

Contact Info:

Office Location:	201B West Duke Building
Office Phone:	+1 919-660-3053, +1 919-660-3050
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Office Hours:

Fall 2004: none

Education:

Ph.D.	University of California, Irvine	1976
M.A.	University of California, Irvine	1974
B.A.	California State University, Northridge	1968

Specialties:

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Metaphysics
Epistemology
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Research Interests:

Michael T. Ferejohn (Ph.D. 1976, University of California, Irvine) joined the Duke Faculty in 1983. He has taught at the University of Pittsburgh, Tufts University, Washington State University, University of Wisconsin (Parkside) and the University of Alberta and held a Mellon Faculty Fellowship at Harvard University in 1981-1982. His publications have appeared in such journals as Phronesis, American Philosophical Quarterly, Journal of the History of Philosophy, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research and The Review of Metaphysics, and his book, The Origins of Aristotelian Science, was published by Yale University Press in 1991. Ferejohn runs the Duke In Greece summer program.

Areas of Interest:

Ancient Philosophy
 Metaphysics
 Epistemology
 Philosophical Logic

Keywords:

Europe • Ancient Philosophy • Metaphysics • Epistemology • Philosophical Logic

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. M.T. Ferejohn, Definition in Ancient Logic, in Ancient Logic, edited by L. Castagnoli (In Press), Cambridge University Press, ISBN TBD
2. M.T. Ferejohn, Formal Causes: Definition, Explanation, and Primacy in Socratic and Aristotelian Thought (new title) (November, 2013), Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-969530-0
3. Ferejohn, MT, Formal Causes: Definition, Explanation, and Primacy in Socratic and Aristotelian Thought (November, 2013), Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-969530-0
4. Ferejohn, MT, The Diagnostic Function of Socratic Definitions, in Socrates, Plato, Aristotle" Essays in Honour of G. Santas, edited by Anagnostopoulos, G (2010), ISBN 978-9400737303
5. Ferejohn, M, Empiricism and the First Principles of Aristotelian Science, in A Companion to Aristotle (March, 2009), pp. 66-80, WILEY-BLACKWELL, ISBN 9781405122238 [doi]