Dr. Stephen Menn, PhD. (born 1964) is Associate Professor of Philosophy at McGill University

McGill University

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. He teaches ancient philosophy

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 (Plato

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, Aristotle

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, Stoicism

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 and neo-Platonism), medieval philosophy

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 (Western

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 and Islamic

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) and the history

History of mathematics

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 and philosophy

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 of mathematics

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He holds two M.A. degrees; one in Mathematics from Johns Hopkins University

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 in 1982, and one in Philosophy from University of Chicago

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1984. He also holds two doctorates:one in Mathematics from, Johns Hopkins University in 1985 and one in Philosophy from University of Chicago in 1989

Books

• Menn, Stephen Philip. Plato on God As Nous. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1995. ISBN 9780585029702

Book chapters

"The greatest stumbling block : Descartes' denial of real qualities" in Descartes and his contemporaries ed. Roger Ariew; Marjorie Grene, University of Chicago Press, 1995
"The Intellectual Setting of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy,' in The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy, ed. Daniel Garber and Michael Ayers, 1997.

• "God and Being" in The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Philosophy, ed. A.S. McGrade, 2003.

Peer-reviewed articles

• "Aristotle and Plato on God as Noûs and as the Good" in Review of Metaphysics 45, 1992.
• "The Problem of the Third Meditation*, in American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Autumn 1993.
• "Metaphysics, Dialectic, and the Categories" in Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale 100, n.3, July-September 1995.
• "The Stoic Theory of Categories," in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, 17, 1999.

External links

• Official page at McGill University