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James Allen is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM), specializing in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy. He holds a BA from Yale University and a PhD from Princeton University. His research focuses on ancient philosophical methodologies, including rhetoric, dialectic, and epistemological debates across figures like Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics.
Key research areas include the analysis of ancient medical texts, the structure of philosophical argumentation in works like Plato’s Gorgias, and the historical development of skepticism in Hellenistic thought. His contributions span monographs like Inference from Signs: Ancient Debates about the Nature of Evidence (2001) and numerous articles on Aristotle’s logic, Stoic linguistics, and the New Academy’s aporetic tradition.
Allen’s work bridges textual analysis with methodological inquiry, exploring how ancient thinkers conceptualized evidence, probability, and the boundaries between theoretical and practical knowledge. His recent publications (2018–2020) address topics such as Megarian dialectics, Galen’s medical philosophy, and the ethical foundations of ancient goods/evils dichotomy.
