Helen S. Lang

Helen S. Lang (February 19, 1947 – June 20, 2016) was an American philosophy professor and researcher, specializing in ancient Greek philosophy and science, medieval and Renaissance thought, and an expert on Aristotelian natural philosophy.[1][2]

For over twenty years she was with Trinity College, Hartford (1978–2003[3]), where she was the Koeppel Professor of Classical Studies[2] (named in 2001[3]). Her last affiliation was with Villanova University, Pennsylvania, where she was Chair of the Philosophy Department (2002–2005) and a department member at the time of her death.[1][2]

As a scholar, Helen S. Lang was a fellow at the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology at MIT and at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.[1]

Publications

Helen Lang wrote over three dozen articles and multiple book reviews.[1]

Major works

  • 1992: Aristotle's Physics and Its Medieval Varieties
  • 1998: The Order of Nature in Aristotle's Physics[4]
  • 2001: (together with A.D. Macro and Jon McGinnis) an edition and translation of Proclus's De Aeternitate Mundi ("On the eternity of the world")[5]
  • 2015: (essay) "Plato on Divine Art and the Production of Body," (in B. Holmes and D.-K. Fischer, ed. The Frontiers of Ancient Science: Essays in Honor of Heinrich von Staden
  • 2017: (essay) "Embodied or Ensouled? Aristotle on the Relation of Soul and Body," (in J. E. H. Smith, ed. Embodiment [Oxford University Press, forthcoming, 2017]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Memorial Minutes, 2016 - The American Philosophical Association". apaonline.org. Retrieved 2020-03-27.
  2. ^ a b c Helen S. Lang, an obituary at The Hartford Courant, June 23, 2016
  3. ^ a b The Trinity Reporter, Fall 2016, p. 74
  4. ^ Review of Helen S. Lang, The Order of Nature in Aristotle's Physics: Place and the Elements, Journal of the History of Philosophy, Volume 39, Number 1, January 2001, doi:10.1353/hph.2003.0073
  5. ^ "On the eternity of the world = De aeternitate mundi Proclus | Modern Language Translations of Byzantine Sources</br>Digitized Greek Manuscripts". library.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2020-03-27.


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