Professor Sir Richard R.K. Sorabji CBE, FBA, American, Flemish and 'European' Academies, Honorary Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford

During Richard Sorabji's career teaching has been a great pleasure and he keeps contact with many of his fifty-three former PhD students. He has also enjoyed making Philosophy accessible to the general public by teaching at Morley College and at Gresham College and by designing the King's College, London Centre for Philosophical Studies to promote Philosophy to the wider public. 

He has three main writing areas which include; 
(i) 'Physics of the Universe, (ii) the Mind and (iii) Social and Ethical Problems

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(i) Author of 17 volumes of books
(ii) Over 100 volumes of annotated translation edited, including 31 short introductions composed and 7 longer essays, plus 3 explanatory volumes edited and a 3-volume survey of the period composed with edited translations by many hands
(iii) 10 further volumes edited or co-edited
(iv) 90 principal articles

Founder and director of international project on the Aristotle commentators, 200-600AD, 100 volumes between 1987 and 2012, 67 translators and 281 collaborators in 20 countries, 21 research assistants.

The first 100 volumes have made available philosophy from a period of over 600 years up to 600 AD, the largest component of surviving ancient Greek philosophy and one that constitutes a missing link in the History of Western Philosophy. It re-modelled Ancient Greek thought and handed on to the Middle Ages a reinterpretation of Aristotle  that was more influential on subsequent European thought than  the original.  Besides the 100 volumes of translation, there are 6 of explanation, including a 3-volume Sourcebook. The project has involved 75 translators and over 300 collaborators in 20 countries and 21 research assistants.  25 new volumes of translation are planned so far with Bloomsbury as publisher in 3 formats, on-line, hardback and paperback at less than half price and there is a new 2016 volume of essays showing the latest developments, and stressing the spread of Greek commentary to eastern cultures, from which lost Greek originals are increasingly being translated. The exposition of Athenian philosophy to the King of Persia was reconstructed in 2016 from a distorted Latin version.

For the impact of the project read some reviews here.
For list of volumes read here.

Awards and posts

Knight Bachelor in Queen's Birthday Honours 2014    

C.B.E., awarded 1999, (for services to Ancient Philosophy)

Director of the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, 1991-6

President of the Aristotelian Society, 1985-6

Fellow of the British Academy since 1989 (F.B.A.), in sections of Philosophy, Classics and up to 1994 Theology

Foreign honorary member American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1997

Foreign member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Arts and Sciences of Belgium, since 2008. 

Member of the European Academy, 2014.

British Academy Wolfson Research Professorship, 1996-9

Member of the Academy of Europe (Academia Europaea) from 2014

Fellow of King’s College, from 1990

Honorary Fellow of Wolfson College from 2002

Gresham Professor of Rhetoric, 2000-2003 (some lectures still on the internet).

Honorary Doctor of Letters, Union College Schenectady, 2007

Honorary Doctor of Letters, McGill University 2009

Read here to see a complete history of employment.