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Myles Burnyeat (1939-2019) was a major figure in the study of ancient Greek philosophy during the last decades of the twentieth century and the first of this. After teaching positions in London and Cambridge, where he became Laurence Professor, in 1996 he took up a Senior Research Fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford, from which he retired in 2006. In 2012 he published two volumes collecting essays dating from before the move to Oxford. Two new posthumously published volumes bring together essays from his years at All Souls and his retirement. The essays in Volume 4 are addressed principally to scholars engaging first with fundamental issues in Platonic and Aristotelian metaphysics and epistemology and in Aristotle's philosophical psychology. Then follow studies tackling problems in interpreting the approaches to physics and cosmology taken by Plato and Aristotle, and in assessing the evidence for early Greek exercises in optics.
‘Burnyeat’s articles are, each in their own way, unique achievements. Most of them start with simple-looking questions concerning a particular piece of text that then turn out to be of great importance … They are models of philosophical analysis and philological accuracy. Even where one may disagree with Burnyeat’s results, he certainly makes the alternatives very clear and thereby does a great service to his readers … Burnyeat’s admirable thoroughness and patience have made him a hard task-master but also a model one, both from a philosophical and from a philological point of view.’
Dorothea Frede Source: GNOMON
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