Abraham P. Bos (born 1943,

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) is a retired professor in Ancient and

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philosophy at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, specializing in the philosophy of

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. His doctoral thesis in 1971 was "Een onderzoek naar de kosmologie van Aristoteles in de eerste jaren van zijn wijsgerige activiteit" (A study of the cosmology of Aristotle in the first years of his philosophical activity)WorldCat
/ref> His inaugural lecture in 1976 was "Providentia Divina: The Theme of Divine Pronoia in Plato and Aristotle"Bos, Abraham P. ''Providentia Divina: The Theme of Divine Pronoia in Plato and Aristotle : Inaugural Lecture to the Departments of Literature and Philosophy of the

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,'' Delivered on Friday, October 15, 1976. Assen: Van Gorcum, 197
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/ref> He is the author, co author, or co-editor of *Bos, Abraham P, and Rein Ferwerda. ''Aristotle, on the Life-Bearing Spirit (de Spiritu): A Discussion with Plato and His Predecessors on Pneuma As the Instrumental Body of the Soul: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary.'' Leiden : Brill, 2008. , a book found in 416 libraries according to

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/ref> *Bos, Abraham P. ''The Soul and Its Instrumental Body: A Reinterpretation of Aristotle's Philosophy of Living Nature.'' Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2003. *Bos, Abraham P. ''Cosmic and Meta-Cosmic Theology in Aristotle's Lost Dialogues.'' Leiden u.a: Brill, 1989 **Translated into Italian as ''Teologia cosmica e metacosmica : per una nuova interpretazione dei dialoghi perduti di Aristotele'' *Bos, Abraham P, and J N. Kraay. ''On the Elements: Aristotle's Early Cosmology''. Assen: Van Gorcum, 1973. (based on his doctoral thesis)

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