Boris Hennig
Associate Professor
Faculty of Arts
Department of Philosophy
Toronto, Ontario
hennig@torontomu.ca
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(416) 979-5000 ext. 557186
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Boris Hennig works on Ancient Greek Philosophy (Plato and Aristotle), Latin and Islamic Medieval Philosophy, Early Modern Philosophy, and contemporary Analytic Philosophy. Some of his main areas of interest are the logic of predication, self-knowledge, and metaphysics (causation, types and natura...
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Boris Hennig works on Ancient Greek Philosophy (Plato and Aristotle), Latin and Islamic Medieval Philosophy, Early Modern Philosophy, and contemporary Analytic Philosophy. Some of his main areas of interest are the logic of predication, self-knowledge, and metaphysics (causation, types and natural kinds, and teleology). Hennig wrote his PhD thesis on conscientia (consciousness / moral conscience) in Descartes, and his Habilitationsschrift on Aristotle’s Four Causes. As a graduate student, Hennig started taking Arabic classes, initially in order to be able to locate the word for “soul” (nafs) in Ibn Sina’s short treatise On the Soul,. He continued taking language classes for several years, at the departments for Oriental Studies in Leipzig (Germany) and in Dublin. More recently, he has started learning Farsi.
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