Keimpe Algra
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies - Philosophy
Utrecht University
Netherlands
Biography
Keimpe Algra studied philosophy and classics at the University of Utrecht, where he obtained his Ph.D. (cum laude) in 1988. He has published widely on ancient philosophy, with a special focus on Hellenistic philosophy and ancient physics and cosmology. He is the author of Concepts of Space in Greek Thought (Leiden 1995) and (co)editor of several scholarly volumes, including the Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy (1999). His latest publications include K. A. Algra & J. M. Van Ophuisen, Philoponus On Aristotle’s Physics 4, 1-5, Bristol (Bristol Classical Press) 2012; and K. A. Algra & K. Ierodiakonou, Sextus Empiricus and Ancient Physics, Cambridge (CUP) 2015.
Research Interest
Philosophy
Publications
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Algra, K.A. (2015). Place: M 10.1-36. Sextus Empiricus and Ancient Physics (pp. 184-216). Cambridge University Press.
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Algra, K.A. & Ierodiakonou, Katerina (2015). Introduction. Sextus Empiricus and Ancient Physics (pp. 1-32). Cambridge University Press.
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Algra, K.A. (2017). The Academic Origins of Stoic Cosmo-Theology and the Physics of Antiochus of Ascalon – Some Notes on the Evidence. In Yosef Liebersohn, Ivor Ludlam & Amos Edelheit (Eds.), For a Skeptical Peripatetic - Festschrift in Honour of John Gluckner (pp. 158-176). Sankt Augustin: Academia Verlag.
