Lloyd P. Gerson

Lloyd Phillip Gerson (Dec. 23, 1948, Chicago, Illinois) is an American-Canadian professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Toronto.

Gerson is a scholar of ancient philosophy, the history of philosophy, metaphysics, and Neoplatonism. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is best-known for his work on Plotinus, particularly his full-length translation of the Enneads that is based primarily on the Henry-Schwyzer editio minor (HS2) Greek text.

Works God and Greek Philosophy: Studies in the early history of natural theology, London: Routledge, 1990 Plotinus, London: Routledge, 1994, (Arguments of the Philosophers Series) Knowing Persons. A Study in Plato, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004 Aristotle and Other Platonists, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005 Ancient Epistemology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009 From Plato to Platonism, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013 The Enneads, Cambridge University Press, 2018 (translated and edited with George Boys-Stones, John M. Dillon, R.A. King, Andrew Smith and James Wilberding) Platonism and Naturalism. The Possibility of Philosophy, Cornell University Press, 2020 Plato's Moral Realism. Cambridge University Press, 2023.