Michael T. Ferejohn, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy

Michael T. Ferejohn

Please note: Michael has left the "Classical Studies" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date.

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.

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

Education:

Ph.D.University of California, Irvine1976
M.A.University of California, Irvine1974
B.A.California State University, Northridge1968
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

  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]