John Palmer, Ph.D.

Website

https://people.clas.ufl.edu/palmerj/

Currently Teaching

• On Leave Spring 2026

Areas of Specialization

• Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy

Curriculum Vitae

• CV 2026

Dr. Palmer is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department.

Books

The Method of Hypothesis and the Nature of Soul in Plato's Phaedo. Elements of Ancient Philosophy. Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Parmenides and Presocratic Philosophy. Oxford University Press, 2009.
Plato's Reception of Parmenides. Clarendon Press, 1999.

Select Recent Publications

"Ethics and Natural Philosophy in Empedocles". In David Wolfsdorf (ed.), Early Greek Ethics (Oxford University Press, 2020): 54-73.
'Presocratic Interest in the Soul's Persistence after Death'. In John E. Sisko (ed.), Philosophy of Mind in Antiquity, vol. 1 of R. Copenhaver and C. Shields (gen. eds.) The History of the Philosophy of Mind (New York and London: Routledge, 2018): 23-43.
'Contradiction and Aporia in Early Greek Philosophy'. In V. Politis and G. Karamanolis (eds.), The Aporetic Tradition in Ancient Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018): 9-28.
'The Early Tradition on Melissus and Parmenides'. In Jaap Mansfeld et al., Eleatica 2012: Melissus between Miletus and Elea, ed. Massimo Pulpito. (Sank Augustin: Acadamia Verlag, 2016): 150-6.
'Elemental Change in Empedocles'. Rhizōmata: A Journal for Ancient Philosophy and Science, vol. 4, no. 1 (2016): 30-54.
'The Pythagoreans and Plato'. In C. Huffman (ed.), The History of Pythagoreanism (Cambridge University Press, 2014): 204-26.
'The World of Early Greek Philosophy'. In F. Sheffield and J. Warren, eds., The Routledge Companion to Ancient Philosophy (Routledge, 2014): 3-17.
'Parmenides'. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/parmenides/ (Updated 2020.)
'Zeno of Elea'. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/zeno-elea/ (Updated 2021.)