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Michael Pakaluk, Ph.D.
Professor/Director of Integrative Research
Ph.D., Harvard University
M. Litt., University of Edinburgh
A.B., Harvard College
Dr. Pakaluk is a philosopher, historian of philosophy, and scholar in classical philosophy, who has published in a wide variety of areas in philosophy. These areas include ancient, medieval, Scottish, and 20th century philosophy. His interests range over ethics, political philosophy, philosophical psychology, and philosophical logic, among other topics. He cultivates lively side-interests in the philosophy of John Henry Newman and the personalism of Karol Wojtyła.
Dr. Pakaluk has played an important role in the revival of interest in the classical understanding of friendship, and is recognized as one of the world's leading experts on Aristotelian ethics.
His books include the Clarendon Aristotle volume on books VIII and IX of the Nicomachean Ethics (1998), and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: An Introduction (Cambridge, 2005). He is currently at work on Aristotelian Theory of Action and Moral Psychology (with Giles Pearson, for Oxford University Press), and a new translation and edition of the complete psychological writings of Aristotle for the Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy series.
Dr. Pakaluk was a Marshall Scholar and has been a visiting philosopher or scholar at Brown University, University of Cambridge, University of St. Andrews, and the Catholic University of America. In 2007 he was honored by an appointment as Corresponding Academician of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas. He comes to the IPS from Clark University in Worcester, Mass.
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