Devin Henry
BA, MA, UWO; PhD University of London
Assistant Professor
History & Philosophy of Science (esp. Ancient Philosophy and Science, History and Philosophy of Biology)
Member, Rotman Institute of Science and Values
Phone: 519-661-2111 ext. 85876
Office: Talbot College, 411
Email: dhenry3 (at) uwo (dot) ca
2009-2010 Teaching
- PHIL 3006G - Aristotle
- PHIL 3340G - Philosophical Issues in Modern Biology
Selected Publications
- "Aristotle's Pluralistic Realism" (under review with The Philosophical Review)
- "Theories of Causation”, Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome (Forthcoming 2009, Oxford University Press)
- "John Philoponus” in Henrik Lagerlund (ed.) Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy. (Forthcoming 2009, Springer Press).
- "Aristotle’s Generation of Animals” in Georgios Anagnostopoulos (ed.) A Companion to Aristotle. Blackwell Books. (February 2009)
- "Organismal Natures” in Aristotle on Life. John Mouracade (ed.), Kelowna: Academic Printing & Publishing, 2008. 47-74. Special issue of Apeiron: a journal for ancient philosophy and science, XLI.3, September 2008.
- "The Neoplatonic Achilles” in Tom Lennon and Robert Stainton (eds.), The Achilles of Rationalist Psychology. Dordrecht: Springer Press, 2008.
- "How Sexist is Aristotle’s Developmental Biology?” Phronesis, Vol. 52, No. 3. (2007), pp. 251-269.
- "Understanding Aristotle’s Reproductive Hylomorphism” Apeiron. Volume 39 no. 3 (September 2006).
- "Aristotle on the mechanisms of inheritance” Journal of the History of Biology. Volume 39 no. 3 (September 2006).
- "Embryological Models in Ancient Philosophy” Phronesis, Volume 1, February 2005, 1-42.
- "Themistius and Spontaneous Generation in Aristotle’s Metaphysics” Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, 24, Summer 2003, 183-208.
- "Pleasure and the Worst Form of Akrasia”, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 5.3, Sept. 2002, 255-270.
- "Berkeley’s Passive Mind”, Minerva, an internet journal of philosophy, Vol. 4, Nov. 2000 (url: http://www.ul.ie/~philos/vol4/).
- Review of Aristotle on Definition by Marguerite Deslauriers, Journal of the History of Philosophy, Vol. 46, No. 3 (July 2008), 478-80.
- Review of Aristotle on Teleology by Monte Ransome Johnson, Ancient Philosophy, 2007.
- Review of In the Grip of Disease: Studies in the Greek Imagination by G. E. R. Lloyd. Human Nature Review 3, 2003, 381-388.
- The Anatomy of a Genos: Aristotle on Natural Kinds (book manuscript, in preparation).
- "Tisias’ Technê: Plato’s Theory of Collection and Division” (in preparation)
- Aristotle’s Generation of Animals. Translation with Commentary, co-authored with Allan Gotthelf (in preparation).
