UCSC Philosophy

John  Bowin

Assistant Professor of Philosophy

Office: Cowell Annex A-111 Mailing Address: Professor John Bowin Cowell Academic Services The University of California, Santa Cruz 1156 High Street Santa Cruz, CA 95064 Phone: Office: (831) 459-5676 Messages: (831) 459-2609 Email: jbowin@ucsc.edu

Areas of Interest:

· Ancient Philosophy

· Metaphysics

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Education:

· Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin

· M.A., Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin

· M.A., General Studies in the Humanities, University of Chicago

· M.B.A., Finance and International Business, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business

· B.A., English Language and Literature, University of Chicago

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Bibliography:

· "Chrysippus' Puzzle About Identity,"   Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 24, May 2003, 239-251.¹

· "Aristotelian Infinity,"  Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 32, May 2007, 233-250.²

· “Aristotle on Identity and Persistence,” Apeiron, vol. 41, no. 1, March 2008, 63-88.

· "Aristotle on the Order and Direction of Time," Apeiron, vol. 42, no. 1, March 2009, 49-78.

· "Aristotle on the Unity of Change: Five Reductio Arguments in Physics 8.8," Ancient Philosophy, vol. 30, no. 1, June 2010.

· "Aristotle on Various Types of Alteration in De Anima II 5," under review

¹Reviewed in Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 4/04, Also discussed on pp. 67 ff. of Christoper Gill, The Structured Self in Hellenistic and Roman Thought, (Oxford University Press, 2006).

²Reviewed in Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 7/08,

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Teaching Fall 2009:

· 39035 PHIL-9-01, INTRODUCTION TO LOGIC, MWF 9:30AM - 10:40AM, CLASSROOM UNIT 1

· 24941 PHIL-100A-01 ANCIENT GREEK PHILOSOPHY, MWF 12:30PM-1:40PM Kresge Clrm 327

Teaching Winter 2010:

· 55923 PHIL-122-01 TOPICS IN METAPHYSICS: CONTEMPORARY ANALYTIC METAPHYSICS, TuTh 02:00PM-03:45PM

· PHIL-190A/296, TOPICS IN ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY: ARISTOTLE’S PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE, W 2:00-5:00PM, Humn 1 400

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