Michael T. Ferejohn, Professor of Philosophy and Classical Studies

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 he has published two books on ancient greek philosophy: The Origins of Aristotelian Science (Yale University Press, 1991), and Formal Causes: Definition, Explanation, and Primacy in Socratic and Aristotelian Thought  (Oxford University Press, 2013). Professor Ferejohn directs the Duke In Greece summer program.

Contact Info:

Office Location:	201B West Duke Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Office Phone:	(919) 660-3053
Email Address:
Web Page:	http://www.duke.edu/web/classics/~mtf

Teaching (Spring 2021):

• PHIL 203.01, HST ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY Synopsis

  West Duke 202, TuTh 03:30 PM-04:45 PM

  (also cross-listed as CLST 271.01)

• PHIL 511S.01, PLATO Synopsis

  Crowell 108, W 01:45 PM-04:15 PM

  (also cross-listed as CLST 572S.01)

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: Ancient Philosophy, Plato, Aristotle, Metaphysics, Epistemology, Philosophical Logic

Ancient Philosophy (Plato and Aristotle), 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]