Research Interests for Michael T Ferejohn

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

Recent Publications

1. M.T. Ferejohn, Essential Knowledge: Definition, Explanation, and Primacy in Socratic and Aristotelian Thought (Oxford UP, forthcoming) [author's comments]
2. M.T. Ferejohn, The Diagnostic Function of Socratic Definitions, in Socrates, Plato, Aristotle" Essays in Honour of G. Santas, edited by G. Anagnostopoulos (2010)
3. M.T. Ferejohn, The Diagnostic Function of Socratic Definitions, Philosophical Inquiry, vol. XXXI no. 1-2 (Winter, 2009), pp. 3-21
4. M.T. Ferejohn, Empiricism and First Principles in Aristotle, in A Companion to Aristotle, edited by George Anagnostopoulos (2009), Blackwell, ISBN 9781405122238
5. M.T. Ferejohn, Knowledge and the Forms, in A Companion to Plato, edited by Hugh Benson (2007), Blackwell