Professor Neil Lewis

Assistant Editor, Richard Rufus of Cornwall Project
Georgetown University

Philosophy Department
Georgetown University
Washington, D.C. 20057
Email: Neil Lewis

Education:

Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1988
Dissertation: “Time and Modality in Robert Grosseteste”

M.A., University of Pittsburgh, 1987

B.A., Melbourne University, 1979, Honors, 1st Class

Academic Honors:

Georgetown University, Summer Research Grants, 1991, 1992, 1995, 1998, 2000

Georgetown University, Junior Research Fellowship, 1993

Harvard University Fellowship to study medieval Latin paleography, 1984

University of Pittsburgh, Andrew Mellon Fellowship, 1980-1981

Melbourne University, Hastie Exhibition, final year honors philosophy, 1978

Melbourne, Hastie Exhibition, second year honors philosophy, 1976

Employment:

Associate Professor of Philosophy, Georgetown University, 1996-present

Visiting Associate Professor of Philosophy, Stanford University, 2001

Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Georgetown University, 1990-1996

Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Franklin and Marshall College, 1988-1990

Instructor in Philosophy, Franklin and Marshall College, 1987-1988

Articles:

“Robert Grosseteste and the Continuum,” in The Beginnings of the Medieval Reception of Aristotle in the Latin West, forthcoming.

“Robert Grosseteste's Notes on the Physics,” in Editing Robert Grosseteste, ed. J. Goering, (Toronto, 2003), pp. 103-134.

“Robert Grosseteste,” in A Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages, ed. J.E. Gracia & T. Noone, (Oxford, 2003), pp. 597-606.

“Space and Time,” in The Cambridge Companion to Duns Scotus, ed. T. Williams, (Cambridge, 2003), pp. 69-99.

“The Problem of a Plurality of Eternal Beings in Robert Grosseteste,” in Medieval Philosophy and Theology 7 (1998) 17-38.

“Robert Grosseteste and the Church Fathers,” in The Reception of the Church Fathers in the West, ed. I. Backus, Leiden 1997, 197-220.

“Power and Contingency in Robert Grosseteste and John Duns Scotus,” in John Duns Scotus: Metaphysics and Ethics, ed. L. Honnefelder et al., Leiden 1996, pp. 205-225.

“William of Auvergne's Account of the Enuntiabile: Its Relation to Nominalism and the Doctrine of the Eternal Truths,” in Vivarium 33 (1995) 113-136.

“The First Recension of Robert Grosseteste's De libero arbitrio,” in Mediaeval Studies 53 (1991) 1-88.

“Determinate Truth in Abelard,” in Vivarium 25 (1998), 81-109. �

Recent Addresses:

“Robert Grosseteste's De libero arbitrio” Grosseteste and his Intellectual Milieu, International Conference, Bishop Grosseteste College, Lincoln, July 2003.

“Robert and Richard on Truths, Verities and the Transcendentals,” with Rega Wood, E.A. Moody Medieval Philosophy Workshop, of California at Los Angeles, February 2003.

“Robert Grosseteste's Notes on the Physics,” Editing Robert Grosseteste: The 36th Annual Conference on Editorial Problems, University of Toronto, November 2000.

“Robert Grosseteste on the Continuum,” The Beginnings of the Medieval Reception of Aristotle in the Latin West, International Conference, Albertus Magnus Institute, Bonn, August 2000.

Professional Associations:

Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy

Société internationale pour l'étude de la philosophie médiévale

Editions and Translations (Work in Progress)

Critical edition of the the second recension of Robert Grosseteste's De libero arbitrio.

Critical edition of Richard Rufus of Cornwall's commentary on Aristotle's De generatione et corruptione, with Prof. Rega Wood.

Critical edition of Richard Rufus of Cornwall's first commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics, with Prof. Rega Wood.

Critical edition and English translation of Robert Grosseteste's Scriptum in libros Physicorum Aristotelis, with Prof. Peter King.

English translation of Robert Grosseteste's philosophical writings.

Studies

Continuity and atomism in the early Middle Ages.

The doctrine of free choice in early 13th Century British thinkers.