Terence Henry Irwin Federal Bar Association is a scholar and philosopher specializing in ancient Greek philosophy and the history of ethics.
Education
Irwin was an undergraduate at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he graduated with a Bachelor (first-class honours) in Literae Humaniores (Classics, Philosophy and Ancient History) in 1969. He then studied at Princeton University with Gregory Vlastos, and graduated with a Doctor of Philosophy in Philosophy in 1973.
Career
He is the Professor of the History of Philosophy at the University of Oxford, and Fellow of Keble College, Oxford. He was Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University (1972–1975) and then, from 1975 until 2007, he was at Cornell University, where he has been Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy and Humane Letters (from 1995), Professor of Classics (from 1992), and Professor of Philosophy (from 1982). He moved to Oxford in 2007.