Text and Idea of Aristotle's Science of Living Things (TIDA)

Gábor Betegh is the Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Christ’s College. He primarily works on ancient metaphysics, cosmology, the connections between ancient philosophy and the history of religions.

 He published The Derveni Papyrus: Cosmology, Theology and Interpretation (CUP, 2004), co-edited with Julia Annas Cicero’s De Finibus: Philosophical Approaches (CUP, 2015) and with Voula Tsouna Conceptualising Concepts (CUP, 2014).

His publications on ancient theories of the soul include:

 ‘Thinking with Empedocles: Aristotle on Soul as Harmonia’, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 59 (2021), 1-44. 

‘The Ingredients of the Soul in Plato’s Timaeus’, in F. Leigh (ed.), Themes in Plato, Aristotle, and Hellenistic Philosophy: Keeling Lectures 2011-18, BICS Supplement 141, London, 2021,  83-104. 

 ‘Cosmic and Divine Cognition in the Timaeus’, in  J. Sisko (ed.), Philosophy of Mind in Antiquity, Rutledge, London (2018), 120-140. 

 ‘On the Physical Aspect of Heraclitus’ Psychology (With New Appendices)’, in D. Sider and D. Obbink (ed.), Doctrine and Doxography: Studies on Heraclitus and Pythagoras, De Gruyter, Berlin, 2013, 225-261. 

‘The Limits of the Soul: Heraclitus B45 DK. Its Text and Interpretation’, in E. Hülsz (ed.), Nuevos ensayos sobre Heráclito, Mexico City, 2009, 391-414.