Timothy Clarke

Timothy Clarke joins the FAS as Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy. He is a specialist in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy. His first book, Aristotle and the Eleatic One (Oxford University Press, 2019), is a study of Aristotle’s engagement with the Presocratic philosopher Parmenides of Elea. He is currently writing a second book on Aristotle’s response to Plato’s theory of forms. Other recent projects include articles on political justice in Plato’s Republic and on Aristotle’s proof of the principle of non-contradiction in the Metaphysics. He received his BA and MA from the University of Sheffield, and his PhD from Yale in 2012. He taught for twelve years at the University of California, Berkeley.