Terence Henry Irwin FBA (; born 21 April 1947), usually cited as T. H. Irwin, is a scholar and philosopher specializing in ancient Greek philosophy and the history of ethics (i.e., the history of Western moral philosophy in ancient, medieval, and modern times). He spent most of his career at

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before becoming the Professor of the History of Philosophy at the

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, and Fellow of

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from 2007 until 2017.

Education and career

Irwin was an undergraduate at

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, where he graduated with a BA (first-class honours) in Literae Humaniores (Classics, Philosophy and Ancient History) in 1969. He then studied at

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with Gregory Vlastos, and graduated with a PhD in philosophy in 1973. He was assistant professor of philosophy at

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(1972–1975) and then, from 1975 until 2007, he was at

, where he served as Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy and Humane Letters (from 1995), Professor of Classics (from 1992), and Professor of Philosophy (from 1982). He moved to Oxford in 2007, and retired in 2017. Irwin is a Fellow of both the

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and the

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. He is married to Gail Fine, who was also a professor of philosophy at

and visiting professor of ancient philosophy at Oxford.

Publications

*''Plato's Moral Theory''. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977. *''Plato's Gorgias'' (translation and notes). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979. *''Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics'' (translation and notes). Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1985. *''Aristotle's First Principles''. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. *''Classical Thought''. OPUS Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. *''Plato's Ethics''. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. *''The Development of Ethics'', Vol. 1 (from Socrates to the Reformation). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. *''The Development of Ethics'', Vol. 2 (from Suarez to Rousseau). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. *''The Development of Ethics'', Vol. 3 (from Kant to Rawls). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. In addition, Irwin has published over 100 essays and articles in journals and volumes of conference proceedings.See Prof. Irwin's CV and List of Publications, pp. 2–6

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