Christopher Shields

Christopher Shields is UC Distinguished Professor and Henry E. Allison Professor of the History of Philosophy.  He is an Honorary Research Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford, where he was Professor of Classical Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy Faculty Board, before taking up a position as Shuster Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, a post he held before making his way, at long last, to UCSD.   Previously he has taught at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He has held the Tang Chun-I Visiting Professorship at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Collins Visiting Professor at the University of St. Louis, and a Senior Fellowship at TOPOI, the Humboldt University of Berlin.  He has held visiting professorships at Cornell University, Stanford University, Yale University, and The University of Arizona.  He is the author of Order in Multiplicity: Homonymy in the Philosophy of Aristotle (Oxford University Press: 1999), Classical Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge: 2003), Aristotle (Routledge: 2007), Ancient Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge: 2011), with Robert Pasnau, The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas (Westview: 2003; 2^nd rev. ed. Oxford University Press: 2015), Aristotle's De Anima, Translated with Introduction and Commentary (Oxford University Press: 2016), and Fractured Goodness: Aristotle’s Response to Plato’s Form of the Good (Oxford University Press: 2024). He is the editor of The Blackwell Guide to Ancient Philosophy (Blackwell: 2002), and The Oxford Handbook of Aristotle (Oxford University Press: 2012).