CURRICULUM VITAE
Charles H. Kahn September, 2002
Date of Birth: May 29, 1928
Place of Birth: New Iberia, Louisiana
Home address: 531 Broad Acres Road, Penn Valley, PA 19072
Home telephone: (610) 664-1464
Office phone: (215) 898-8563 (Philosophy Department), University of Pennsylvania
-7423 (personal office)
Education
University of Chicago, 1942-1949. B.A. 1944, M.A. (Committee on Social Thought) 1949
University of Paris (Sorbonne), 1949-51
Columbia University, 1951-53. Ph.D. in Greek and Latin, 1958.
Free University of Berlin, Summer semester, 1955.
Teaching Experience
Columbia University: Instructor in Greek and Latin, 1957
Assistant Professor 1958
Associate Professor with tenure, 1962-65.
University of Pennsylvania: Associate Professor of Philosophy 1965-68
Professor 1968-.
Chairman of Philosophy Department 1975-78.
American School of Classical Studies in Athens,
Harvard University: Visiting Professor of Philosophy, Spring 1995.
Honors, awards, offices held:
Co-Editor of Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie (published in Berlin) 1965-1979.
Member of Managing Committee, American School of Classical Studies in Athens (1964-2000).
A.C.L.S. Research Fellowship for 1963-64.
N.E.H. Research Fellowship for 1974-75.
President of Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, 1976-78.
Guggenheim Fellow, 1979-80.
Visiting Fellow, Balliol College, Oxford, 1979-80. Life member of Balliol.
A.C.L.S. Research Fellow, 1985.
Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge, 1985. Life member of Clare Hall.
Elected member of PEN, American Center, 1987.
N.E.H. Research Fellow, 1990-91.
Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar, Fall 1990.
Fellowship from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, for three weeks
of lecturing in
Nominated for Vice-President, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division 1997
Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2000
Other professional activities:
Invited address at various national and international conferences, including World Congress of Classicists (F.I.E.C.), in Bonn (1969), Dublin (1984), and Pisa (1989), Ouro Preto, Brazil (August, 2004); Hegel-Kongress in Stuttgart (1987); Société Internationale de Philosophie (2002).
Member of Jury for Soutennance de thèse at the Sorbonne (Paris), 1988.
Member of External Review Committee for Department of Classics, Columbia University (Fall, 1989).
Representative for North America on Executive Committee of International
Plato Society (1992-95). Organizing Committee for Symposium Platonicum in
Granada,
Member of Organizing Committee for Year of Socrates Conference, Athens-Delphi,
Outside examiner for doctoral dissertation in Philosophy, Tel Aviv University,
Publications
A. Books
1. Anaximander and the Origins of Greek Cosmology. Columbia University Press, 1960. 250 pp. Translation into Modern Greek, 1982.
Reprinted by Hackett Publishing Company, 1994.
2. The Verb “Be in Ancient Greek. Reidel, Dordrecht, 1973 (Vol. 16, Foundations
of Language Supplementary Series, ed. J.W.M. Verhaar): The Verb “Be” and its Synonyms, part 6. 486 pp.
3. The Art and Thought of Heraclitus: An edition of the fragments with translation
and commentary. Cambridge University Press, 1979 (paperback, 1981). 356 pp.
4. Pitagora e i pitagorici (Instituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, 1993). Italian
translation of Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans, 100-page monograph.
5. Plato and the Socratic Dialogue. Cambridge University Press, 1996, 431 pp.
6. Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans. A Brief History. Hackett Publishing Company, 2001. 195 pages.
B. Articles and Review Articles
1. “Anaximander and the Arguments Concerning the apeiron,” Festchrift Ernst
Kapp, Hamburg, Marion von Schroder Verlag, 1958, pp. 19-29.
2. “Religion and Natural Philosophy in Empedocles’ Doctrine of the Soul,” Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 42 (1960) , 3-35; reprinted in Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy, ed J. Anton (SUNY, 1971) reprinted also in Mourelatos volume cited below (under 22).
3. Review article on G. R. Morrow, Plato’s Cretan City, in Journal of the History of
Ideas 22 (1961), pp. 418-424.
4. “Plato’s Funeral Oration: The Motive of the Menexenus,” Classical Philology 58
(1963), pp. 220-234.
5. “A New Look at Heraclitus,” American Philosophical Quarterly vol. 1 (1964),
189-203. (Bobbs-Merrill reprint, 1968).
189-204.
6. “Sensation and Consciousness in Aristotle’s Psychology,” Archiv für Geschichte
der Philosophie 48 (1966), pp.41-81. (Reprinted in Vol. IV of Articles on
Aristotle ed. Barnes, Schofield, Sorabji; Duckworth 1979)
7. “The Greek Verb ‘to be’ and the Concept of Being,” Foundations of Language
2 (1966), pp. 245-265. (Also Bobbs-Merrill reprint, 1968).
8. Articles “Anaximander” and “Empedocles” in the Encyclopedia of Philosophy,
ed. P. Edwards, New York, 1967.
9. Review of L. Taran, Parmenides, in Gnomon, 40 (1968), pp. 123-133.
10. Review article of G. Ryle, Plato’s Progress, in Journal of Philosophy 45 (1968),
pp. 364-375.
11. “Stoic Logic and Stoic Logos,” Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 51 (1969),
pp. 158-172.
12. Review article on Jean Bollack, Empédocle, in Gnomon 41 (1969), pp. 439-447.
13. “The Thesis of Parmenides,” Review of Metaphysics 22 (June, 1969),
pp. 700-724.
14. Addendum “More on Parmenides,” ibid. 23 (December, 1969), pp.333-340.
15. “On Early Greek Astronomy,” Journal of Helenic Studies 90 (1970), pp. 99-116.
16. Review article on J. Mansfeld, Die Offenbarung des Parmenides, in Gnomon 52
(1970), pp. 113-119.
17. “The Terminology for Copula and Existence,” in Islamic Philosophy and the
Classical Tradition: Essays presented....to Richard Walzer (Cassirer, Oxford,
1972), pp. 141-158.
18. “The Meaning of ‘Justice’ and the Theory of Forms,” Journal of Philosophy 49
(1972), pp. 567-79.
19. “On the Theory of the Verb ‘To Be’,” in Logic and Ontology, ed. Milton K.
Munitz, New York University Press, 1973, pp. 1-20.
20. Article, “Pre-Platonic Conceptions of Human Nature,” Dictionary of History of Ideas, ed. P. Wiener, Scribners, 1973.
21. “Language and Ontology in the Cratylus,” in Exegesis and Argument:
Studies in Greek Philosophy presented to Gregory Vlastos, Phronesis
Supplement Volume I (1973), pp. 152-176.
22. “Pythagorean Philosophy before Plato,” in The Pre-Socratics:
Critical Essays (Doubleday Anchor, 1974), ed. A.P.D. Mourelatos,
pp. 161-185.
23. Review article on F. Solmsen, Kleine Schriften, in Gnomon 45 (1973),
pp. 737-745.
24. “Plato on the Unity of the Virtues,” Facets of Plato’s Philosophy, ed.
W.H. Werkmeister, Phronesis supplement Vol. II (Van Gorcum, 1976),
pp. 21-39.
25. Review article on H. Happ, Hyle: Studien zum Aristotelischen Materie-
Begriff, in Gnomon 47 (1975), pp. 645-52.
26. “Why Existence does not emerge as a distinct concept in Greek philosophy,”
Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 58 (1976), pp. 323-334.
27. “Linguistic Relativism and the Greek Project of Ontology,” in The Question
of Being, ed. Mervyn Sprung, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1978,
pp. 31-44; also published in Neue Hefte für Philosophie (Göttingen) 15-16
(1978), pp. 20-33.
28. “Questions and Categories: Aristotle’s doctrine of categories in the light
of modern research,” in Questions, ed. H. Hiz (Reidel, 1978), pp. 227-278.
29. “The Role of Nous in the Cognition of First Principles in Posterior
Analytics II. 19" in Aristotle on Science: The “Posterior Analytics,”
ed. E. Berti (Padua 1981), pp. 385-414; Italian translation published in
Aristotele e la Conoscenza, ed. G. Cambione and L. Repici (Milan, 1993), pp.
313-41.
30. “Aristotle and Altruism,” Mind 90 (1981), pp. 20-40.
31. Review of Jonathan Barnes, The Presocratic Philosophers, in Journal
of Philosophy 78 (1981), pp. 279-287.
32. “Some Philosophical Uses of ‘to be’ in Plato,” Phronesis 26 (1981),
pp. 105-134.
33. “Did Plato Write Socratic Dialogues?” Classical Quarterly 31 (1981), pp.305-320
(Earlier French version: “Platon a-t-il écrit des dialogues socratiques?” in Bulletin
de la Société Française de Philosophie 74, pp. 45-77 (1980). Reprinted in Essays
on the Philosophy of Socrates, ed. H.H. Benson (Oxford, 1992).
34. “The Origins of Social Contract Theory,” in The Sophists and their
Legacy, ed. G.B. Kerferd (Hermes Einzelschrift 44, 1982), pp. 92-108.
35. “Arius as a Doxographer,” in On Stoic and Peripatetic Ethics: the Work
of Arius Didymus, ed. W. Fortenbaugh (Transaction Books, 1983),
pp. 3-13.
36. “Philosophy and the Written Word: Some thoughts on Heraclitus and the
early Greek uses of prose,” in Language and Thought in Early Greek
Philosophy, ed. Kevin Robb (Monist Library of Philosophy, 1983), pp.110-124.
37. Drama and Dialectic in Plato’s Gorgias,” in Oxford Studies in Ancient
Philosophy, ed. Julia Annas, Vol. I (1983), pp. 75-121.
38. “Democritus and the Origins of Moral Psychology,” American Journal of
Philosophy 106 (1985), pp. 1-31. (An earlier, shorter version appeared
in Proceedings of the 1st International Congress on Democritus, published
in Xanthi, Greece, 1984.)
39. “On the Intended Interpretation of Aristotle’s Metaphysics,” in Aristoteles,
Werk und Wirkung, Paul Moraux gewidmet, ed. J. Wiesner (Berlin, 1985),
Vol. I, 311-338.
40. “The Beautiful and the Genuine: a discussion of Paul Woodruff, Plato Hippias
Major,” in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Vol. III (1985), pp. 261-287.
41. “Retrospect on the Verb ‘to be’ and the Concept of Being,” in The Logic of
Being, ed. S. Knuutila and J. Hintikka (Reidel, 1986), pp. 1-28.
42. “Plato and Heraclitus,” in The Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy,
ed. J.J. Cleary, Vol. I (1985), pp. 241-58.
43. “The Place of the Prime Mover in Aristotle’s Teleology,” in Aristotle on Nature
and Living Things, ed. A. Gotthelf (Pittsburgh & Bristol, 1985), pp. 183-205.
44. “Plato’s Methodology in the Laches,” in Revue Internationale de Philosophie 40
(1986), pp. 7-21.
45. “Plato’s Theory of Desire,” Review of Metaphysics 41.1 (1987), pp. 77-103.
46. “Les mots et les formes dans le Cratyle de Platon,” in Cahiers de Philosophie
ancienne No. 5, (Editions Ousia, Brussels, 1987), pp. 99-103.
47. “Plato and Socrates in the Protagoras,” Méthexis (Buenos Aires) I (1988),
pp. 33-52.
48. “Plato’s Charmides and the Proleptic Reading of Socratic Dialogues,”
Journal of Philosophy 85 (1988), pp. 541-549.
49. “Being in Parmenides and Plato,” La Parola del Passato (Naples), 43
(1988), pp. 237-261.
50. “From Philosophy of Being to Philosophy of Human Beings,” in Metaphysik
nach Kant? edd, D. Henrich and R. P. Horstmann (Stuttgart, 1988), pp. 528-540.
51. ‘Discovering the Will: from Aristotle to Augustine,” in The Question of
“Eclecticism,” ed. J.M. Dillon & A.A. Long (University of California Press
1988), pp. 234-259.
52. “Socrates and the Rule of Law,” in Philosophy of Law in the History of Human
Thought , Proceedings of 12th World Congress IVR, (Stuttgart 1988), pp.11-16.
53. “On the Relative Date of the Gorgias and Protagoras,” Oxford Studies in Ancient
Philosophy VI (1988), pp. 69-102.
54. Articles “Plato” and “Aristotle” in the International Encyclopedia of
Communications, ed. E. Barnouw (Oxford University Press, 1989).
55. “The Historical Position of Anaxagoras,” in Ionian Philosophy ed. K.J. Boudouris
(Athens, 1989), pp. 203-210.
56. “Problems in the Argument of Plato’s Crito”, in Nature, Knowledge, & Virtue.
Essays in Memory of Joan Kung, ed. T. Penner and R. Kraut, Apeiron 22 (Dec.
1989), pp. 29-43.
57. “The Normative Structure of Aristotle’s Politics,” in Aristoteles’ “Politik,” ed. G.
Patzig, (Göttingen, 1990), pp. 369-384.
58. “Comments on Malcolm Schofield,” ibid. pp.28-31.
59. Review article on Die Philosophie der Antike, Band 3, ed. Ueberweg-Flashar, in
Gnomon 62 (1990), pp. 397-404.
60. “Plato as a Socratic,” in Recherches sur la philosophie et le language 12
(Hommage à Henri Joly) (Grenoble, France, 1990), pp. 287-301.
Republished in Studi italiani di filologia classica, 3rd series 10 (1992), 580-95.
61. “L’argumentation de Platon dans les dialogues socratiques, “ in L’Argumentation,
Colloque de Cérisy, ed. A. Lempereur (Paris, 1991), PP.1-10.
62. “Some Remarks on the Origins of Greek Science and Philosophy,” in Science and
Philosophy in Classical Greece, ed. A.C. Bowen (Garland, New York and
London1991), pp. 1-10.
63. “La Physique d’Aristote et la tradition grecque de la philosophie naturelle,” in La
physique d’Aristote et les conditions d’une science de la nature, edd. F. De Gandt
and P. Souffrin (Paris, Vrin, 1991).
64. “In Response to Mark McPherran,” Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy IX
(1991), pp. 161-168.
65. “Presocratic Greek Ethics,” in Encyclopedia of Greek Ethics, ed. L.C. Becker
(Garland Publishing New York and London, 1992), Vol. I, pp 457-461.
Republished in History of Western Ethics, same editor and publisher (1992).
66. “Aristotle on Thinking,” in Essays on Aristotle’s “De Anima,” edd. M.
Nussbaum and A.O. Rorty (Oxford, 1992), 359-379.
67. “Werner Jaeger’s Portrayal of Plato,” in Werner Jaeger Reconsidered. Illinois
Studies in Classical Philosophy, Supplement Vol. 3 (1992), 359-379. Ed. W.M.
Calder.
68. Review article, “Vlastos’ Socrates,” Phronesis 37 (1992), pp. 233-258.
69. Review of L. Brandwood, The Chronology of Plato’s Dialogues, in Classical
Journal 88.1 (October, November, 1992), 89-91.
70. “Plato’s Ion,” in Nomodeiktes. Greek Studies in Honor of Martin Ostwald, edd.
R. Rosen and J. Farrell (University of Michigan Press, 1993), pp. 369-78.
71. Foreword to reprinting of G. R. Morrow, Plato’s Cretan City (Princeton
University Press, 1993), pp. xvii-xxviii.
72. “Proleptic composition in the Republic, or why Book I was never a separate
dialogue,” Classical Quarterly N.S. 43 (1993), 131-42.
73. “Aeschines on Socratic eros,” in P. Vander Waerdt, ed. The Socratic Movement
(Cornell University Press, 1994), pp. 87-106.
74. “The Place of the Statesman in Plato’s Later Work,” in C.J. Rowe, ed. Reading
the Statesman”. Proceedings of the III Symposium Platonicum (Academia,
1995), pp. 49-60.
75. “A New Interpretation of Plato’s Socratic Dialogues,” Harvard Review of
Philosophy, 1995, pp. 26-35.
76. “George Grote’s Plato and the Companions of Socrates,” in W. M. Calder ed.
George Grote Reconsidered (Weidman: Hildesheim, 1996), pp. 43-58
77. Short articles on Anaximander, Anaximenes, Pythagoras, Thales and Xenophanes
for 3rd ed. of Oxford Classical Dictionary (1996).
78. “Was Euthyphro the Author of the Derveni Papyrus?,” in A. Laks and G. W.
Most, (edd.) Studies on the Derveni Papyrus (Oxford University Press, 1997), pp.
55-63.
79. “Critical Comment on Richard B. Mc Kirahan, Jr. Philosophy Before Socrates,” in Ancient Philosophy 17 (1997), 159-64.
80. “Religion and Philosophy in the Sisyphus Fragment,” Phronesis 42 (1997), 247-262.
81. “Pre-Platonic Ethics”, in S. Everson (ed.) Companions to Ancient Thought 4.
Ethics (Cambridge, 1998) 27-48.
82. Articles on Sophists, Protagoras, Gorgias, Hippias, Prodicus, and Socratic
Dialogue, in Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Routledge, 1998).
83. Article “Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans,” in Oxford Companion to Classical
Civilization (Oxford, 1998).
84. “Greek Philosophy from the Beginning to Plato: A Critical Notice of
C.C.W.Taylor (ed.), Routledge History of Philosophy, vol. I,” Oxford Studies in
Ancient Philosophy XVII (1999), 325-41.
85. “Some Puzzles in Plato’s Euthydemus,” in Proceedings of Symposium Platonicum V, Toronto 1998 (Toronto University Press, 2000).
86. “La Philosophie de Socrate selon Platon et Aristote,” in Socrate et les Socratiques (ed. G. Romeyer-Dherbey et J.-B. Gourinat) Paris, Vrin, 2001, pp. 207-220.
87. “Forms and Flux in Plato’s Timeus,” in Festschrift for Jacques Brunschwig (Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 2002).
88. Review of R. Hahn, Anaximander and the Architects in Ancient Philosophy, 22 (2002) 149-52.
89. “On Platonic Chronology” in New Perspectives on Plato, Modern and Ancient , ed. J. Annas and C. Rowe (Harvard University Press, 2002) pp.93-128.
FORTHCOMING:
“Parmenides and Plato” in Festschrift for A.P.D. Mourelatos. (ed. V. Caston and D. Graham, Ashgate Publications).
“On the Philosophical Autonomy of a Platonic Dialogue: The Case of Recollection” in Plato as Author (ed. A. Michelini, E.J.Brill).
“Plato on the Good,” in Was ist das Gut für die Menschen? (ed. J. Szaif).
“Socrates and Hedonism,” in Socrates 2001Conference Athens/Delphi(ed. V. Karasmanis, Oxford University Press).
“Aristotle versus Descartes on the Concept of the Mental,” in Festschrift for R. Sorabji.
WORK IN PROGRESS
“Plato’s Parmenides Revisited,” an analysis of Plato’s Parmenides in the light of recent
literature.
“Why Recollection does not appear in Plato’s Republic,”
The Verb ‘Be’ in Ancient Greek, Reprint of original (1973) edition with new introduction and discussion of relation between predicative and existential uses of the verb einai (Hackett Publishing, 2003)