Mary Louise Gill

Mary Louise Gill (born 1950) is an American philosopher who is the David Benedict Professor of Classics and Philosophy at Brown University. Her work primarily focuses on Plato, Aristotle, and other (primarily Greek) ancient philosophers.

In Philosophos: Plato's Missing Dialogue, Gill attempts to explain the absence of the Philosopher, a dialogue which Plato repeatedly mentions in Theaetetus, Sophist, and Statesman, but which no record exists of Plato actually having written. Gill's explanation of the Philosopher has been criticized for relying excessively on the assumption that all of Plato's later philosophy was strongly Aristotelian, but her close analyses of many of the significant passages in the three dialogues her book covers has been lauded as well worthwhile.

Publications Aristotle on substance : the paradox of unity, 1989 Self-motion : from Aristotle to Newton, 1994 A companion to ancient philosophy, 2005 Philosophos : Plato's missing dialogue, 2010 Self-Motion, 2017