Richard Sorabji was born on 8 November 1934 in Oxford. Historian of ancient Western philosophy, he founded the Ancient Commentator on Aristotle project. In 1962, he began teaching at Cornell, becoming Associate Professor in 1968. He joined the faculty of King’s College London in 1970 and was appointed Professor of Ancient Philosophy in 1981. Founder of the King’s College Centre for Philosophical Studies in 1989, he retired as Emeritus Professor in 2000. Sorabji has since held positions at Gresham College, the University of Texas at Austin, New York University, and the City University of New York.
President of the Aristotelian Society and Fellow of the British Academy, he was also Director of the Institute of Classical Studies. Sorabji was appointed Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1997 and made CBE in 1999. Notable works include Aristotle on Memory (1972), Articles on Aristotle (1975), Necessity, Cause, and Blame (1980), Time, Creation, and the Continuum (1983), Rejection of Aristotle (1987), Matter, Space, and Motion (1988), Animal Minds and Human Morals (1993), and The Self (2005).
