Jon McGinnis
(he/him)
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St. George,Biography:
- PhD in Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania
- MA in Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania
- MA in History, University of North Texas
- BA in Philosophy and History, University of North Texas
Jon McGinnis is a world expert in the early history of natural philosophy and physics done in the Greek-, Arabic-, Judeo-Arabic- and Latin-speaking ancient and medieval worlds. He is an accomplished philosopher, classicist and Islamicist, as well as having a master’s degree in Church history (and in general just finds learning fun). In addition to numerous articles, he is the author of Avicenna in Oxford University Press’s Great Medieval Thinkers Series (which has been translated into Turkish and Persian), the translator and editor of Avicenna’s Physics from his encyclopedic work The Healing, and the co-translator, with David C. Reisman of Classical Arabic Philosophy: An Anthology of Sources. He has been awarded three National Endowment for the Humanities awards, a Mellon grant, a John Templeton Foundation grant, and has been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and the Siebold-Collegium Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Würzburg.
All in all, Jon thinks that life is pretty good—but better with a cup of coffee.