Lloyd P. Gerson

Lloyd P. Gerson
Born	(1948-12-23) December 23, 1948 (age 76) Chicago, Illinois
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Toronto (PhD)
Thesis	The Unity of Plato's "Parmenides"  (1975)

Lloyd Phillip Gerson (Dec. 23, 1948, Chicago, Illinois) is an American-Canadian professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Toronto. ^[1]

Gerson is a scholar of ancient philosophy, the history of philosophy, metaphysics, and Neoplatonism. ^[2] He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. ^[3] He is best-known for his work on Plotinus, particularly his full-length translation of the Enneads that is based primarily on the Henry-Schwyzer editio minor (HS²) Greek text. ^[4]

Works

• God and Greek Philosophy: Studies in the early history of natural theology, London: Routledge, 1990
• 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 Enneads , Cambridge University Press, 2018 (translated and edited with George Boys-Stones, John M. Dillon, R.A. King, Andrew Smith and James Wilberding)
• Platonism and Naturalism. The Possibility of Philosophy, Cornell University Press, 2020
• Plato's Moral Realism. Cambridge University Press, 2023.

References

1. "Lloyd Gerson". Department of Philosophy. Retrieved 2025-08-10.
2. CV at University of Toronto
3. Fraumeni, Paul. "Royal Society of Canada honours 19 U of T faculty members". U of T News. University of Toronto. Retrieved 1 May 2021.
4. Gerson, Lloyd P., ed. (2018). The Enneads. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-1-107-00177-0. OCLC   993492241.