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Awards and Fellowships<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

UF CLAS Term Professorship for 2021-2024 & 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 awarded 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. Marshall Scholar, St. John’s College, Cambridge University, for 1987-1989.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Background<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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 The Method of Hypothesis and the Nature of Soul in Plato’s <\/em>Phaedo (Cambridge, 2021) in the new Cambridge Elements of Ancient Philosophy series, two books, Plato’s Reception of Parmenides<\/em> (Oxford, 1999) and Parmenides and Presocratic Philosophy<\/em> (Oxford, 2009), as well as articles on the Presocratics, Plato, Aristotle, and Ancient Skepticism. My longer term projects include a translation of Diogenes Laertius’s Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers<\/em> for Princeton University Press and a book on virtue and value in Plato’s ethics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Areas of Interest\/Research<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Ancient Greek & Roman Philosophy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contact Information<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Office: 330B Griffin-Floyd Hall
\nPhone: (352) 273-1815
\nFax: (352) 392-5577
\nEmail: palmerj@ufl.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Office Hours Fall 2022: MF 9:00-10:00 a.m. (OBA)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mailing address:
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\nUniversity of Florida
\nP.O. Box 118545
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