Myles Burnyeat

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Myles Fredric Burnyeat (born 1939) is an English classicist and philosopher.

Educated at Bryanston School and King’s College, Cambridge, Burnyeat was a student of Bernard Williams at University College London.

He became an Assistant Lecturer in Philosophy at UCL in 1964, and a Lecturer in 1965. In 1978 he was appointed a Lecturer in Classics at the University of Cambridge,and became a fellow of the new Robinson College, Cambridge. From 1984 to 1996 he was the Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Cambridge. From 1996 to 2006 he was Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy at All Souls College, Oxford. He was president of the Aristotelian Society from 2005 to 2006. In 2006 he returned to Robinson College, Cambridge.

[edit] Works

• Philosophy As It Is (co-ed.) 1979
• Doubt and Dogmatism (co-ed.) 1980
• Science and Speculation (co-ed.) 1982
• The Sceptical Tradition (ed.) 1983
• The Theaetetus of Plato 1990
• The Original Sceptics (co-ed.) 1997
• A Map of Metaphysics Zeta 2001