THOMAS KJELLER JOHANSEN
Employment
2008- University Reader in Philosophy, Oxford University
2006-08 University Lecturer in Philosophy, Oxford University; Fellow and Tutor in Ancient Philosophy, Brasenose College
2004-6 Reader in Philosophy, University of Edinburgh
2003-4 Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Edinburgh
1996-2002 Lecturer in Classics and Ancient Philosophy, University of Bristol
1995-6 Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Aberdeen
1993-5 Teaching Fellow in Greek Philosophy and Language, University of Bristol
Education
1994 Ph.D. Cambridge University. 'The Material Basis of Perception in Aristotle'.
Supervisor: Myles Burnyeat.
1991-2 Deutsche Studienstiftung Student, Freie Universität, Berlin.
1989 B.A. (Hons), Trinity College, Cambridge. Part II Classics, Part 1A Philosophy
1984-6 Copenhagen University, Exam. Art. Philosophy.
Awards, Fellowships and Academic honours
2005-7 British Academy Research Reader
Project: Aristotle's Faculty Psychology, described here.
2002-3 Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.
2001 AHRB Research Leave Award.
1998-9 Junior Fellow, Center For Hellenic Studies, Harvard University.
1996 Hellenic Foundation Prize for the best Ph.D. in the U.K. in the ancient/classical
Period.
1991-2 Deutsche Studienstiftung studentship.
1989-3 Trinity College internal graduate studentship.
Gregg Bury Prize for the history of ideas (for undergraduate dissertation on Sorites paradox).
1987 Trinity College junior scholarship in philosophy.
Publications
Books:
Plato's Natural Philosophy. A Study of the Timaeus-Critias, Cambridge University Press, 2004
(pp.224).
Aristotle on the Sense-Organs, Cambridge University Press 1998 (pp.304).
Plato, Timaeus and Critias. Revised translation with a new introduction and notes, Penguin Classics 2008.
Book in preparation:
Aristotle's Faculty Psychology
Articles and book chapters:
'Should Aristotle have recognised final causation in Plato's Timaeus?', for the Proceedings of the Plato's Timaeus Today conference, Parmenides Publishing, (forthcoming)
'From Plato's Timaeus to Aristotle's De Caelo: The Case of the Missing World Soul'', in C.Wildberg and A.C.Bowen (eds.), Companion to Aristotle's Cosmology: Collected Papers on the De Caelo, Brill (forthcoming).
'The Timaeus and The Principles of Cosmology' in G.Fine (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Plato, Oxford 2008.
'The Soul as an Inner Principle of Change: The Basis of Aristotle's Psychological Naturalism' in D.Scott (ed.), Maieusis, Oxford 2007, 276-300.
'What's New in the De Sensu? The Place of the De Sensu in Aristotle's Psychology', in R.King (ed.), Common to Body and Soul. Philosophical approaches to explaining living behaviour in antiquity, Berlin 2006, 140-164.
'In Defense of Inner Sense: Aristotle on perceiving that one perceives', Boston Area
Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, vol. 21 (2005), 235-276.
'Teleology and Craftsmanship in Plato's Timaeus' in C.Natali and S.Maso (eds.), Plato
Physicus, Hakkert 2003, 65-82.
'Imprinted on the Mind: active and passive in Aristotle's theory of sense-perception' in B.
Saunders and J.van Brakel (eds.), Theories, Technologies, Instrumentalities of Colour,
University Press of America 2002, 169-188 [online here].
'Body, Soul and Tripartition in Plato's Timaeus', Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy XIX (2000)
87-111.
'Myth and Logos in Aristotle', in R.Buxton (ed.), From Myth to Reason? Studies in the
Development of Greek Thought, Oxford 1999, 279-91.
'Truth, Lies and History in Plato's Timaeus-Critias', HISTOS, vol. 2 (1998) [online here].
'Aristotle on the Sense of Smell', Phronesis XLI, no.1 (1996) 1-19.
Reviews:
P.Gregoric, Aristotle on the Common Sense, Oxford 2007, in Mind (forthcoming)
G.R.Carone, Plato's Cosmology and Its Ethical Dimensions, Cambridge 2005, in Classical Review 57 no.1 (2007) pp. 37-38.
M.R.Johnson, Aristotle on Teleology, Oxford 2005, in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (June 2006).
F.Karfik, Die Beseelung des Kosmos. Untersuchungen zur Kosmologie, Seelenlehre und Theologie in Platons Phaidon und Timaios, Leipzig/Muenchen 2004, in Rhizai II, no.2. (2005).
A.Gregory, Plato's Philosophy of Science, London/Bristol 2001, in British Journal of the
Philosophy of Science (2003).
J.Lennox, Aristotle De Partibus Animalium, Clarendon Aristotle Series, Oxford 2001, in Philosophical Quarterly 53 (2003).
T.Schirren, Aisthesis vor Platon. Einesemantisch-systematische Untersuchung zum Problem
der Wahrnehmung, Stuttgart/Leipzig, 1998, in Classical Review 51 no.2 (2001).
R.J.Hankinson, Cause and Explanation in Ancient Greek Thought, Oxford 1999, in Journal of
Hellenic Studies 121 (2001).
J.Ackrill, Essays on Plato and Aristotle, Oxford 1996, in Classical Review 1999 (no.1).
G.E.R.Lloyd, Aristotelian Explorations, Cambridge 1996, in Journal of Hellenic Studies 119
(1999).
M.Frede and G.Striker (eds.), Rationality in Greek Thought, Oxford 1996, in Journal of Hellenic
Studies 118 (1998).
P.van der Eijk, Aristoteles, De Insomniis, De divinatione per somnum, Berlin 1994, in Journal of
Hellenic Studies 118 (1998).
A.Price, Mental Conflict, London 1995, in Cogito, August 1995.
Recent Invited Papers
2008: 'Aristotle on the parts of the soul', B Club, Cambridge.
2007: 'Aristotle on the analogy between thinking and perceiving', Trinity College, Dublin.
'Aristotle on how to define the soul', University of Crete.
'Authors meet critics' panel, Plato's Timaeus Today conference, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
'Should Aristotle have recognised final causation in the Timaeus?' , University of Lille.
2006: 'Aristotle's Metaphysics Theta 6', Humboldt-University, Berlin.
'What is it to be a faculty of the soul for Aristotle?', Agir et Mouvoir seminar, University of Paris,
'Aristotle on phantasia', University of Bristol.
'Aristotle, Topics I.9 103b20-27', European Society for Ancient Philosophy conference, Athens.
2005: 'The soul as an inner principle of change: the basis of Aristotle's psychological naturalism', Teleology, Ancient and Modern conference, Toronto.
'In Defense of Inner Sense: Aristotle on perceiving that one perceives', Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, Brown.
'Stasis and conflict in the divided soul', Moral Psychology and Political Theory in Plato's Republic, Edinburgh.
2004 'Aristotle's Faculty Psychology', University of Southern Denmark
'Aristotle on the difference beween human and animal perception', Invited Panel, American
Philosophical Association Pacific Division, Pasadena; Northern Association for Ancient Philosophy,
Newcastle.
'Naturalism in ancient philosophy of mind: the case of the Phaedo', University of St.Andrews and University of Virginia.
2003 'The Unity of Soul in Aristotle', Common to Body and Soul conference, University of Munich; Stirling University.
Aristotle's De Sensu Chapter 1', May week (Craven) seminar, University of Cambridge.
'Why Plato was not a Cartesian dualist', Research seminars, Rutgers, Edinburgh and
Aberdeen Universities.
'The Pleasures of a Clam: Plato's Philebus 21', Arizona Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, University of Arizona, Tucson; Centre for the Greek and Roman World, Glasgow University.
2002 'Plato on the receptacle'' , Research seminar, Princeton.
'Dialogue and Dialectic in Plato's Timaeus-Critias', Research Seminar, University of Bristol. 'Necessity in the Timaeus', Celtic Classics Conference, Glasgow University.
2001 'Plato on Space (Chôra)', Space and Time in Ancient Philosophy conference, University of London, School of Advanced Study, Philosophy Programme:
'Craftsmanship and Teleology in Plato', Plato Physicus conference, University of Venice.
'Empiricism in Plato's Timaeus?' B Club, University of Cambridge.
2000 'Aristotle on colour-perception', International colour workshop, Catholic University, Leuven.
1999 'Practical reason and rhetoric in the Timaeus', Southern Association in Ancient Philosophy: 'Body and Soul in Plato's Timaeus', Princeton and Toronto Universities.
Conferences organized
2004 and 2005 Two three-day conferences, Universities of Edinburgh and Tornto: Teleology, Ancient and Modern. With Denis Walsh and Stasinos Stavrianeas. Invited speakers: Rob Bolton, Sarah Broadie, David Depew, Jim Hankinson, Richard King, Jim Lennox, Peter McLauglin, Mohan Matthen, Dana Miller, Rowland Stout, Susan Suave Meyer, Marcel Quarfood, Jennifer Whiting. (conference websites here Part 1 and Part 2).
Sponsored by the British Academy, Scots Philosophical Club and Universities of Edinburgh and Toronto.
2002 One-day symposium, University of Bristol: Mind and Language: Perspectives on
naturalism in ancient and modern philosophy of mind and language. With Imogen Smith. Invited speakers: Sarah Broadie, Stephen Clark and David Sedley.
Teaching
Oxford (2007-)
Undergraduate lectures: 'Plato's Republic'; 'Early Greek Philosophy'.
Graduate class (with Lesley Brown): 'Plato on ethics, mathematics and cosmology'
DPhil: Oliver Ranner (subject: 'Literary Form and Argument in Plato's Late Dialogues').
Edinburgh (2003-5):
Undergraduate (lectures and seminars): philosophy of mind (consciousness, mind-body
problem); introduction to philosophy (epistemology); Kierkegaard; Plato, Phaedo ; Republic; Aristotle, Physics, De Anima, Metaphysics.
Graduate: MSc seminars in philosophy of mind (consciousness); Aristotle's De Anima
Bristol (1993-5, 1996-2002):
Undergraduate: lectures, seminars and tutorials in ancient philosophy, including the
Presocratics; Plato, Aristotle, Epicureanism; Stoicism; and Sextus Empiricus. Greek language
(all levels) and literature (lectures, seminars and tutorials).
Graduate: Two PhDs, Imogen Smith (subject: 'Naturalistic theories of language in ancient
philosophy', PhD awarded 2005) and Weon-ki Yoo (subject: 'Aristotle on self-motion', PhD
awarded 1999); seminars and dissertations for the MA in Ancient Philosophy.
Aberdeen (1995-6):
Lectures and seminars on Plato and Aristotle and themes in modern philosophy of mind and
language (Ryle, Austin, Husserl) for single and joint honors MA students in philosophy.
Positions of administrative responsibility
Chairman of the Board of Examiners
Graduate studies officer
Undergraduate admissions tutor
Director of MA in ancient philosophy
Personal tutor
Library officer
Deputy chair of departmental meeting
Essay registration officer
Assistant research officer
Safety officer
Services to the university
Internal Ph.D. examiner
Teacher, Sutton Trust Summer School
Services to the academic community
External PhD examiner, Cambridge University, University of Copenhagen
External undergraduate examiner, Classics II, Cambridge University (2002 and 2004)
Reader for the press, Cambridge University Press; Oxford University Press; Duckworth/Bristol Classical Press
Referee for Classical Quarterly, Dialogos, Phronesis, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, Apeiron, Ancient Philosophy, Phoenix, Journal of Hellenic Studies, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, Classica et Mediaevalia, Rhizai.