Overview
Michael T. Ferejohn (Ph.D. 1976, University of California, Irvine) joined the Duke Faculty in 1983. He has taught at the University of Pittsburgh, Tufts University, Washington State University, University of Wisconsin (Parkside) and the University of Alberta and held a Mellon Faculty Fellowship at Harvard University in 1981-1982. His publications have appeared in such journals as Phronesis, American Philosophical Quarterly, Journal of the History of Philosophy, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research and The Review of Metaphysics, and he has published two books on ancient greek philosophy: The Origins of Aristotelian Science (Yale University Press, 1991), and Formal Causes: Definition, Explanation, and Primacy in Socratic and Aristotelian Thought (Oxford University Press, 2013). Professor Ferejohn directs the Duke In Greece summer program.
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Professor Emeritus of Philosophy
·
2022 - Present
Philosophy,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Recent Publications
Formal Causes: Definition, Explanation, and Primacy in Socratic and Aristotelian Thought
Book · November 2013 CiteThe Diagnostic Function of Socratic Definitions
Chapter · 2010 CiteEmpiricism and the First Principles of Aristotelian Science
Chapter · March 2, 2009 Full text CiteEducation, Training & Certifications
University of California, Irvine ·
1976
Ph.D.
University of California, Irvine ·
1974
M.A.
California State University, Northridge ·
1968
B.A.