Terence Irwin


Terence Henry Irwin FBA, usually cited as T. H. Irwin, is a scholar and philosopher specializing in ancient Greek philosophy and the history of ethics. He was the Professor of the History of Philosophy at the University of Oxford, and Fellow of Keble College, Oxford from 2007 until 2017.

Education and career

Irwin was an undergraduate at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he graduated with a BA in Literae Humaniores in 1969. He then studied at Princeton University with Gregory Vlastos, and graduated with a PhD in Philosophy in 1973. He was Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University and then, from 1975 until 2007, he was at Cornell University, where he served as Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy and Humane Letters, Professor of Classics, and Professor of Philosophy. He moved to Oxford in 2007, and retired in 2017.
Irwin is a Fellow of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the British Academy. He is married to Gail Fine, professor of philosophy at Cornell University and visiting professor of ancient philosophy at Oxford.

Publications

In addition, Irwin has published almost 100 essays and articles in journals and volumes of conference proceedings.