{"id":2,"date":"2012-09-04T13:39:49","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T17:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/template\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-03-19T08:14:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:14:44","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/palmerj\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<section class=\"fullwidth-text-block\">\r\n\t<div class=\"container px-0 pt-5\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"row align-items-start\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/palmerj\/files\/2015-08-05_John_Palmer_portrait-9473.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/palmerj\/files\/2015-08-05_John_Palmer_portrait-9473-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"2015-08-05_John_Palmer_portrait-9473\" class=\"wp-image-171\" style=\"width:200px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/palmerj\/files\/2015-08-05_John_Palmer_portrait-9473-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/palmerj\/files\/2015-08-05_John_Palmer_portrait-9473-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Awards and Fellowships<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>UF CLAS Term Professorship for 2021-2024 &amp; 2017-2020. University of Florida Research Foundation Professor for 2015-2018. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow for 2014-2015. Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge University, for 2015. UF CLAS Waldo W. Neikirk Term Professorship for 2012-2013. Recipient of National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend for 2008. National Humanities Center Fellow for 2004-2005. American Council of Learned Societies Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellow for Recently Tenured Scholars\u00a0awarded 2003. Stipendiary Research Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge University, for 1995-1998. Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, Princeton University, for 1989-1991, and Mellon Dissertation Year Fellowship for 1994.\u00a0Marshall Scholar, St. John&#8217;s College, Cambridge University, for 1987-1989.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Background<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I joined the University of Florida Philosophy Department in 1998, after receiving a B.A. from Emory University (1987), a B.A.\/M.A. from Cambridge University (1989), and a Ph.D. from Princeton University (1996), and after holding a Research Fellowship at Clare Hall, Cambridge (1995-1998). I became Chair of the Department in 2017. Among my publications are the monograph <em>The Method of Hypothesis and the Nature of Soul in Plato&#8217;s\u00a0<\/em>Phaedo (Cambridge, 2021)\u00a0in the new Cambridge Elements of Ancient Philosophy series, two books, <em>Plato&#8217;s Reception of Parmenides<\/em> (Oxford, 1999) and\u00a0<em>Parmenides and Presocratic Philosophy<\/em> (Oxford, 2009), as well as articles on the Presocratics, Plato, Aristotle, and Ancient Skepticism. My longer term projects include\u00a0a translation of Diogenes Laertius&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers<\/em> for Princeton University Press and a book on virtue and value in Plato&#8217;s ethics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Areas of Interest\/Research<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Ancient Greek &amp; Roman Philosophy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contact Information<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Office: 330B Griffin-Floyd Hall<br>\nPhone: (352) 273-1815<br>\nFax: (352) 392-5577<br>\nEmail:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:palmerj@ufl.edu\">palmerj@ufl.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Office Hours Fall 2022: MF 9:00-10:00 a.m. (OBA)<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Mailing address:<br>\nDepartment of Philosophy<br>\nUniversity of Florida<br>\nP.O. 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