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Specialties:

Ancient Philosophy
Metaphysics
Epistemology
Philosophy of Language

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. Professor Ferejohn directs the Duke In Greece summer program.

Areas of Interest:

Ancient Philosophy, 
Metaphysics, 
Epistemology, 
Philosophical Logic

• PHIL 100.01, Hst ancient philosophy Synopsis

  West Duke 202, MW 02:50 PM-04:05 PM

• PHIL 110.01, Knowledge and certainty Synopsis

  East Duke 204D, TuTh 02:50 PM-04:05 PM

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

• M.T. Ferejohn. Essential Knowledge: The Role of Definitions in Ancient Greek Epistemology.  Forthcoming, under contract with Oxford.
• M.T. Ferejohn. "The Diagnostic Function of Socratic Definitions." Socrates, Plato, Aristotle" Essays in Honour of G. Santas. Ed. G. Anagnostopoulos.  2010. 
• M.T. Ferejohn. "The Diagnostic Function of Socratic Definitions." Philosophical Inquiry XXXI.1-2 (Winter, 2009): 3-21.
• M.T. Ferejohn. "Empiricism and First Principles in Aristotle." A Companion to Aristotle. Ed. George Anagnostopoulos. Blackwell, 2009.
• M.T. Ferejohn. "Knowledge and the Forms." A Companion to Plato. Ed. Hugh Benson. Blackwell, 2007.

Conferences Organized

• Evaluation of tenure dossier for another university (name withheld)., December 4, 2010