Myles Burnyeat

Career He became an assistant lecturer in philosophy at University College London in 1964, and appointed as the fifth Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Cambridge, a position he held until 1996. In 1988 he became a member of the Institut International de Philosophie. In 2000 he delivered the British Academy's Master-Mind Lecture.

From 1996 until 2006 he was Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy at All Souls College, Oxford.

In 2007, he was made CBE for his services to scholarship. The same included contributions from, amongst others, Mary Margaret McCabe and David N. Sedley.

In 2012 Burnyeat was awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters by the University of St. Andrews. His partner in later life was the musicologist Margaret Bent.

Concluding her 2012 laureation address, Professor Sarah Broadie noted of Burnyeat that: Notes on Books Eta and Theta of Aristotle's Metaphysics, being the record by Myles Burnyeat and others of a seminar held in London, 1979–1982, Oxford: Sub-faculty of Philosophy, 1984, The Theaetetus of Plato Hackett 1990, A Map of Metaphysics Zeta, Mathesis Publications, 2001, Aristotle's Divine Intellect, Marquette University Press 2008, The Pseudo-Platonic Seventh Letter (Uehiro Series in Practical Ethics), (co-author with Michael Frede) Oxford University Press 2015,

Essay collections Explorations in Ancient and Modern Philosophy, Vol. 1, Cambridge University Press 2012, Explorations in Ancient and Modern Philosophy, Vol. 2, Cambridge University Press 2012, Explorations in Ancient and Modern Philosophy: Vol. 3, Cambridge University Press 2022 Explorations in Ancient and Modern Philosophy: Vol. 4, Cambridge University Press 2022

Works (co-)edited Philosophy As It Is (with Ted Honderich), 1979, Doubt and Dogmatism: Studies in Hellenistic Epistemology (with Malcolm Schofield; Jonathan Barnes), 1980 Science and Speculation: Studies in Hellenistic Theory and Practice (with J. Barnes; J. Brunschwig; M. Schofield) Cambridge University Press 1982, The Sceptical Tradition (ed.) University of California Press 1983, The Original Sceptics: A Controversy (with Michael Frede) 1997, Bernard Williams, The Sense of the Past. Essays in the History of Philosophy, (ed. with introduction) Princeton University Press 2007, Heda Segvic, From Protagoras to Aristotle: Essays in Ancient Moral Philosophy (ed.), Princeton University Press 2008,

Select articles/chapters "Socratic Midwifery, Platonic Inspiration," (1977) reprinted in Essays on the Philosophy of Socrates (1992) "Conflicting Appearances" 1979 Dawes Hicks Lecture on Philosophy for the British Academy. "The Inaugural Address: Wittgenstein and Augustine De Magistro" Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volumes, Vol. 61 (1987) "The Impiety of Socrates" Ancient Philosophy 17 (1):1-12 (1997) "Culture and Society in Plato’s Republic" 1997 Tanner Lecture "Plato on why mathematics is good for the soul" Lecture for the 1998 Dawes Hicks Symposia on Philosophy for the British Academy "Plato" 2000 Master-Mind Lecture for the British Academy "DE ANIMA II 5" Phronesis, Vol. 47, No. 1 (2002) "Platonism in the Bible: Numenius of Apamea on Exodus and Eternity" In: Salles, Ricardo (ed.) Metaphysics, Soul, and Ethics in Ancient Thought: Themes from the work of Richard Sorabji (2005) "Kinesis vs. Energeia: A much-read passage in (but not of) Aristotle's Metaphysics", Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 34 (2008) "‘All the World’s a Stage-Painting’: Scenery, Optics, and Greek Epistemology" In: Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 52 (2017)