Lloyd P. Gerson (Dec. 23, 1948,

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) is an American-Canadian scholar of

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, the

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, and

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. He is a fellow of the

Royal Society of Canada The Royal Society of Canada (RSC; french: Société royale du Canada, SRC), also known as the Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada (French: ''Académies des arts, des lettres et des sciences du Canada''), is the senior national, bil ...

. He is best-known for his work on Plotinus, particularly his full-length translation of the ''

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'' that is based primarily on the Henry-Schwyzer ''editio minor'' (HS²) Greek text.

Works

* '' Plotinus'', London: Routledge, 1994, (Arguments of the Philosophers Series) * ''Knowing Persons. A Study in Plato'', Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004 * ''Aristotle and Other Platonists'', Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005 * ''Ancient Epistemology'', Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009 * ''From Plato to Platonism'', Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013 * ''The

'', Cambridge University Press, 2018 (translated and edited with George Boys-Stones,

John M. Dillon John Myles Dillon (; born 15 September 1939) is an Irish classicist and philosopher who was Regius Professor of Greek in Trinity College, Dublin between 1980 and 2006. Prior to that he taught at the University of California, Berkeley. He was ele ...

, R.A. King, Andrew Smith and James Wilberding) * ''Platonism and Naturalism. The Possibility of Philosophy,'' Cornell University Press, 2020

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gerson, Lloyd P. Living people Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada Neoplatonists American historians of philosophy Canadian historians of philosophy 1948 births Academics from Chicago Translators from Greek