Contact Information

Office: 4081 JFSB

Phone: 422-2223

Email: daniel_graham@byu.edu

Commonly Taught Courses Philosophy 201, Philosophy 202, Philosophy 300, Philosophy 320R (the Presocratics; Socrates; Plato; Aristotle)

Semester Schedule: On leave (in my office most days)

Biography:

Daniel W. Graham is A. O. Smoot Professor of Philosophy at Brigham Young University. A student of ancient Greek philosophy and science, he is the author of Aristotle’s Two Systems (1987); the editor of the previously uncollected kleine Schriften of Gregory Vlastos, Studies in Greek Philosophy (2 vols., 1995); translator and commentator of Aristotle, Physics VIII in the Clarendon Aristotle Series (1999); co-editor with Victor Caston of a Festscrift for his mentor, Presocratic Philosophy: Essays in Honour of Alexander Mourelatos (2002); author of Explaining the Cosmos: the Ionian Tradition of Scientific Philosophy (2006); co-editor with Patricia Curd of The Oxford Handbook of Presocratic Philosophy (2008); and the editor and translator of The Texts of Early Greek Philosophy (2 vols., 2010).  His Science Before Socrates: Parmenides, Anaxagoras, and the New Astronomy is forthcoming.  He previously taught at Grinnell College in Iowa and at Rice University in Houston, Tex.  He has been a visiting professor at Yale University and a visiting fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge.  He has been the recipient of two NEH fellowships.

Degrees: BA, Davidson College, 1970
MA, Brigham Young U., 1975
PhD, U. of Texas, Austin, 1980

Interests:

Presocratics; Socrates; Plato; Aristotle; History of Science; Philosophy of Science; Modern Philosophy; Metaphysics; Classics; Indo-European Linguistics