Dr. Colin Guthrie King

Institut für Philosophie (HU)

Colin King Kopie

Colin Guthrie King is a member of the philosophy department of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, the co-ordinator of the interdisciplinary August-Boeckh-Antikezentrum, and a participating member of TOPOI, Research Group ‘Surveying and Limitation’ (B-I-1) .
 

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+49 30 2093-99092

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+49 30 2093-99080
 
 

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talk

"Der aristotelische Hexis-Begriff"
part of the Conference Implicit Knowledge: On the Tacit Dimensions of Making Space

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"The Cartographical View from Nowhere"
part of the Workshop Critique of the Map

 

Publications

 
further Publications

2004 [1] Review of L’excellence de la vie: sur „L’Éthique à Nicomaque“ et „L’Éthique à Eudème“ d’Aristote, Études sur la direction de Gilbert Romeyer Dherbey, réunies et editées par Gwenaëlle Aubry (Paris 2002). In: Methodos (2004).
2005 [2] Review of Aristotle: On the Parts of Animals, translation with introduction and commentary by James Lennox (Oxford 2001). In: Classical World, Volume 98 (2005).
2006 [3] Review of Aristotle: The Nicomachean Ethics. Translation, Introduction and Commentary by Sarah Broadie and Christopher Rowe (Oxford 2004). In: Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung, Jahrgang 60, Heft 3 (2006).
2008 [4] With Carlos Spoerhase, “Historical Fallacies of Historians”, in: Aviezer Zucker (ed.), Blackwell’s Companion to the Philosophy of History and Historiography, (Blackwell: Oxford 2008).
2009 [5] Ed., with A.M. Baertschi, Die modernen Väter der Antike. Die Entwicklung der Altertumswissenschaften an Akademie und Universität im Berlin des 19. Jahrhunderts [The modern fathers of antiquity: The development of „Altertumswissenschaften“ in Berlin in the 19th Century], (de Gruyter: Berlin 2009).
[6] Ed., with Jan-Christof Heilinger and Héctor Wittwer, Individualität und Selbstbestimmung[Individuality and Self-Determination], (Akademie-Verlag: Berlin 2009).
2010 [7] “Sokratisches Ignoranz und Aristotelische Akzeptanz: zwei antikphilosophische Modelle für den Umgang mit Zeugnissen“ [“Socratic Ignorance and Aristotelian Acceptance: Two models for dealing with testimony in ancient philosophy”], in:  Hartmut Böhme and Georg Töpfer (eds.), Was ist Wissenschaft?, (de Gruyter: Berlin 2010).
[8] Review of Lloyd Gerson, Ancient Epistemology, Key Themes in Ancient Philosophy (Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press 2009). In: Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2010.08.30.
[9] „Aristoteles hilft. Was Worte wert sind“, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 3. Dezember 2010 (Online Ausgabe), http://www.faz.net/-01kxb2
 
 

Curriculum Vitae

2009 -present Wissenschaftlicher Koordinator (Academic Co-ordinator), August-Boeckh-Antikezentrum, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
2009 Doctoral dissertation “Aristotle's endoxa: A study in epistemology and the theory of argument” defended, Institut für Philosophie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
2002 -2009 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (equivalent to Lecturer), Institut für Philosophie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
2002 Magister artium, Philosophy, Greek, political science, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
1996 -2002 Study of philosophy, Greek and political science in Freiburg i. Br., Bonn, Lille, Zürich and Berlin.
1991 -1995 B.A. Philosophy, Colgate University (summa cum laude, High Honors in Philosophy, Phi Beta Kappa).