Prof. D. S. Hutchinson

curriculum vitae

my co-ordinates

Trinity College,

6 Hoskin Avenue,

Toronto M5S 1H8, Canada

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dshutchinson@trinity.utoronto.ca

my academic chronology

Queen’s University in Kingston (Hons. BA, Philosophy); Rhodes Scholar (British Columbia and Balliol 1976); Oxford University (B.Phil. and D.Phil in Philosophy); lecturer in philosophy, Balliol College and Corpus Christi College. In 1983 I came to the University of Toronto as Assistant Professor, and became Associate Professor in 1987 and Professor in 2000, also becoming a Fellow of Trinity College in 1987. Since 1986 I have spent periods of a year or more as a visiting researcher in Cambridge, Berlin, Cologne, and Padua /Venice, working alongside various classics and philosophy colleagues in those European cities.

Currently I serve as Undergraduate Coordinator and Associate Chair of the University of Toronto’s Department of Philosophy. To access our Department web pages click here. To contact me in respect of my duties as Undergraduate Co-ordinator, send a message to: euboulia@chass.utoronto.ca.

I also serve as Director of the University of Toronto’s Collaborative Ph.D. Program in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy; to access our CPAMP web pages click here. To contact me in respect of my duties as CPAMP Director, send a message to: dshutchinson@trinity.utoronto.ca.

my scholarly publications

a. on a larger scale

The Virtues of Aristotle (London, Routledge, 1986)

"Aristotle’s Ethics", in The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle,

ed. Jonathan Barnes (Cambridge University Press, New York, 1995)

Plato, Complete Works, ed. John M. Cooper (Indianapolis,

Hackett Publishing, 1997), pp. xxx + 1,808 (as Associate Editor)

b. on a smaller scale

My shortest article (with Brian D. Fogelman, a student in PHL301Y) argues that we should notice “‘Seventeen’ subtleties in Plato's Theaetetus”, Phronesis, vol. 35 #3 (1990), pp. 303-306.

Another perhaps ingenious hypothesis calls for “Restoring the order of Aristotle's De Anima”, Classical Quarterly, vol. 37 #2 (1987).

My longest and most complicated article is about various "Doctrines of the mean and the debate concerning skills in fourth-century medicine, rhetoric, and ethics", in Medicine, Method and Metaphysics: studies in the philosophy of ancient science, ed. R. J. Hankinson (Edmonton, 1988).

A succinct and sympathetic statement of Epicurean principles, my "Introduction" to The Epicurus Reader, tr. Brad Inwood & Lloyd Gerson (Hackett Publishing, 1994), was also published electronically in The Philosophy Garden at http://www.atomic-swerve.net/tpg/intro.html.

My two most recent review-articles explore the Socratic question: “Socrates of Athens, Philosopher of Religion”, on Mark L. McPherran, The Religion of Socrates, in Dialogue XXXVIII (1999); on Charles H. Kahn, Plato and the Socratic Dialogue, in The Classical Review, vol. 49 #2 (1999).

A recent polemic of mine, defends, against hostile criticism, the new translation of Lucretius’ On the Nature of Things by Martin Ferguson Smith, in Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2002-03-09.

c. in progress

Aristotle, Invitation to Philosophy, is a new presentation and translation of Aristotle’s Protreptikos (with Monte Ransome Johnson, currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Toronto). We have decided to eschew Düring-style reconstructions and to present a modern translation directed at modern students of the two primary texts – the quotations embedded in a long passage of the Protreptikos of Iamblichus, and the papyrus fragment POxy666. The next drafts will be web-published.

PKöln205 (a critical edition of this papyrus is to be published in a future volume of Corpus dei Papiri Filosofici); the text transmits a fragment of a Socratic dialogue about death, set in Socrates’ prison cell.

A critical edition (editio maior with Textgeschichte) of [Aristotle], On Virtues and Vices; this little text has a vast and complex history of textual transmission, which is maybe more interesting than its contents.

A multi-year multi-volume project to develop a critical edition of Aristotle’s Ethics, based on new collations of the Greek manuscripts, with Textgeschichte and text-critical commentary. I have been working on this for five years and am now confident that the project is well worth doing (the text admits of hundreds of improvements), and feasible (if properly funded).

my philosophy teaching -- recent, present, and projected

I generally teach undergraduate courses, mostly introductory philosophy and ancient philosophy. In May/June of 1999 I taught a graduate seminar on Aristotle’s moral philosophy. In 1998/99, 1999/2000 and 2000/01, I taught a first year seminar HUM199Y1Y L0322 called “Socrates and the Art of Living”. In 1998/99, 1999/2000, and 2001/02, I taught a survey course in ancient philosophy PHL200Y1Y L0101 called “Ancient Philosophy”, most of the lecture notes and records of which now reside on my PHL 200Y web site for 2001/02. In 2002/03, I will be teaching an introduction to philosophy for 500 first year students PHL102Y L0201 called “History of Western Philosophy”; see my PHL102Y web site for 2002/03. In 2003 from September to December, I will probably be teaching a half-course to graduate students and senior undergraduates on Epicurean philosophy.

revision of 2002 July 31