Dr Stevie Makin

MA Edinburgh, PhD Cambridge

Department of Philosophy

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Dr Stevie Makin
Department of Philosophy
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Sheffield
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Stephen took his first degree at Edinburgh University, and then moved to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, to study for a PhD. His research was originally on the philosophy of the early Wittgenstein, but his interests rapidly turned to ancient philosophy. His doctoral thesis was on pre-Socratic atomism. He was a research fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge, before being appointed to a lectureship in Sheffield in 1984.

Publications

Books

  • Aristotle & Makin S (2006) Aristotle's Metaphysics Theta: Translation and Commentary. Oxford University Press, USA. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Makin S (1993) Indifference Arguments. Oxford: Blackwell. RIS download Bibtex download

Journal articles

  • Makin SA (2013) Amusing Gorgias: Why does the Encomium of Helen end as it does?. Ancient Philosophy, 33(Fall). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Makin S (2005) Melissus and His Opponents: The Argument of DK 30 B 8. Phronesis: A Journal for Ancient Philosophy, 50(4), 263-288. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Makin S (2003) What Does Aristotle Mean by Priority in Substance?. Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, 24. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Makin S (2000) How Many Ways Can a Capacity be Exercised?. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Suppl. vol. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Makin S (1999) Aristotle's Two Modal Theses Again. Phronesis: A Journal for Ancient Philosophy, 44(2), 114-126. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Makin S (1996) Megarian Possibilities. Philosophical Studies, 83(3), 253-276. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Makin S (1991) An Ancient Principle about Causation. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 91, 135-152. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Makin S (1989) Aquinas, Natural Tendencies and Natural Kinds. The New Scholasticism, 63(3). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Makin S (1989) The Indivisibility of the Atom. Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, 71(2), 125-149. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Makin S (1988) Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society, 214, 77-103. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Makin S (1988) The Ontological Argument. Philosophy, 63(243), 83-91. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Makin S (1988) How can we find out what Ancient Philosophers said?. Phronesis: A Journal for Ancient Philosophy, 33(1-3), 121-132. RIS download Bibtex download

Chapters

  • Makin SA (2012) Energeia and Dunamis, The Oxford Handbook of Aristotle (pp. 400-421). Oxford: Oxford University Press. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Makin SA (2009) Aristotle: Form, Matter and Substance, The Routledge Companion to Metaphysics (pp. 29-38). Abingdon: Routledge. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Makin S (2000) Causality and Derivativeness In Teichmann R (Ed.), Logic, Cause and Action: Essays in Honour of Elizabeth Anscombe (pp. 59-72). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. RIS download Bibtex download

Conference proceedings papers

  • Makin SA (2014) Ethics Fixity and Flux. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume, Vol. 88 (pp 167-181) RIS download Bibtex download

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Professional activities and memberships

Stephen Makin has published papers on philosophy of religion, Democritean atomism, method in ancient philosophy, the metaphysics of Aristotle, and Aquinas' philosophy of nature. His book on principle-of-insufficient-reason arguments in ancient philosophy was published by Blackwell in 1993 under the title Indifference Arguments. His translation of Aristotle's Metaphysics Book 9, along with a substantial commentary, was published in the Clarendon Aristotle Series in 2006. His research interests also include various topics in contemporary metaphysics.