Gisela Striker

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Gisela Striker
Born1943 (age 7980)
Alma mater University of Göttingen
Region Western philosophy
Doctoral advisor Günther Patzig
Main interests
ancient philosophy
Influences

Gisela Striker (born 1943) is a German classical scholar. She is Professor Emerita of Philosophy and Classics at Harvard University and a specialist in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy. [1]

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Education and career

Striker was born and educated in Germany, earning her doctorate in philosophy from the University of Göttingen under the supervision of Günther Patzig in 1969 and her Habilitation, also from Göttingen in 1978. [2] She taught philosophy at Göttingen from 1971–1986, and then was professor of philosophy at Columbia University from 1986–1989, and then at Harvard from 1989–1997. In 1997, she became the sixth Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, England, serving until 2000, when she returned to Harvard. [3] She expressed frustration with the ancient philosophy program at Harvard. [4]

Philosophical work

Striker specializes in ancient philosophy, teaching Plato and Aristotle, as well as earlier and later Greek and Roman authors. She has written mostly on topics in Hellenistic philosophy (the epistemology and ethics of Stoics, Epicureans, and Skeptics) and on Aristotelian logic. Her work on Aristotle's logic builds on the tradition started in 1951 by Jan Lukasiewicz [5] and reinvigorated in the early 1970s by John Corcoran and Timothy Smiley. [6]

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References

  1. "Classics Dept Faculty: Gisela Striker". Harvard University. Retrieved 14 January 2011.
  2. https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/striker/files/striker-cv.pdf [ bare URL PDF ]
  3. Powell, Alvin (14 December 2000). "A peripatetic returns". Harvard University Gazette. Archived from the original on 29 June 2011. Retrieved 14 January 2011.
  4. "Gisela Striker's Exit Casts Program In Doubt | News | The Harvard Crimson".
  5. Degnan, M. 1994. Recent Work in Aristotle's Logic. Philosophical Books 35.2 (April, 1994): 81-89.
Academic offices
Preceded by Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy Cambridge University
1997–2000
Succeeded by