Prof. Dr. Jonathan Beere

Institut für Philosophie (HU)

Beere

Jonathan Beere is Professor für Antike Philosophie und Wissensgeschichte and Co-Director at the Graduate School of Ancient Philosophy at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. In addition to his regular teaching and administrative duties in the Department of Philosophy, Jonathan Beere, together with Christoph Helmig, currently runs the Junior Research Group “Place, Space and Motion” at Topoi. He recently organized a “Summer School” on Plato’s Sophist at the Humboldt-Universität. He has served as a referee for “Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy” and “Classical Philology”.
 

General Information

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Contact

Organisation / Department

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Graduate School of Ancient Philosophy

Address

Luisenstraße 56
10117 Berlin
Deutschland

Email

Phone

+49 30 2093-4573

Fax

+49 30 2093-2264
 
 

Projects

research project


 

Activities

conference


talk

"Ontology of Space"
part of the Workshop New Year's Workshop of Area D

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"Place, Space, and Motion"
part of the Workshop New Year's Workshop of Area D

conference


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"The Explanatory Role of Chora"
part of the Conference Chora in Plato's Timaeus

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Career

Appointments

Professor of Ancient Philosophy and History of Knowledge, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (since 2011)
Junior Professor of Ancient Philosophy, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (2008-2010)
Researcher at the Chair of Ancient and Contemporary Philosophy, Hum-boldt-Universität zu Berlin (2007-2008)
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Chicago (2004 – 2007)

 
 

Publications

 
In Topoi

2011Form und Materie
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2011Akt und Potenz
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2010Metaphysics
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2009Doing and Being. An Interpretation of Aristotle's Metaphysics Theta
Beere, Jonathan
2008The Priority in Being of Energeia
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further Publications

2011 Articles „Form und Materie“ and „Akt und Potenz“, in: Ch. Rapp – K. Corcilius (eds.), Aristoteles-Handbuch (Stuttgart 2011).
2010 “Philosophy, Virtue, and Immortality in Plato’s Phaedo”, Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, 2010.
Article „Metaphysics“, in: M. Gargarin (ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome (Oxford 2009).
2008 The Priority in Being of Energeia, in: M. Crubellier, A. Jaulin, D. Lefebvre and P.-M. Morel(eds.), Dynamis: Autour de la puissance chez Aristote (Leuven 2008) pp. 429-456.
2006 Potentiality and the Matter of Composite Substance, Phronesis 51 (2006), pp. 303-329.
2003 Counting the Unmoved Movers: Astronomy and Explanation in Aristotle’s Metaphysics XII.8, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 85 (2003), pp. 1-20.
 
 

Curriculum Vitae

Education
2003 Ph.D. with dissertation The Priority of Active Being: An Interpretation of Aris-totle’s Metaphysics IX, Princeton University
1997 B.A. (first class), Literae Humaniores, Oxford University
1995 B.A. with Honors in History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science and Medicine, University of Chicago
Grants
2001 Princeton Graduate School Summer Stipend
2001 Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni Travel Grant (Rome)
Fellowships
2006-2007 Alexander von Humboldt-Fellowship, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
2003-2004 Fulbright Junior Research Fellowship, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
2002-2003 Whiting Fellowship, Princeton University
2000–2002 Princeton University Graduate Fellowship
1997–2000 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
1995–1997 Rhodes Scholarship