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CURRICULUM VITAE
Alfonso Gómez-Lobo, Dr. phil.
PRESENT APPOINTMENT
Georgetown University
Ryan Professor of Metaphysiscs and Moral Philosophy
The White House
Member, President’s Council on Bioethics
Office address
Department of Philosophy
Georgetown University
Washington, D.C. 20057-0001, USA
Telephone (202) 687 7584, Fax (202) 687 4493
E-mail: gomezloa@georgetown.edu
Home address
11709 Enid Drive
Potomac, MD 20854
Telephone and fax (301) 983 2902
PERSONAL AND FAMILY INFORMATION
Born Jan. 1, 1940 in Viña del Mar, Chile
Married, four children, three grandchildren
Naturalized U.S. citizen
EDUCATION
Undergraduate and graduate
Catholic University, Valparaíso, Chile
Philosophy, Greek and Latin (1957-1958)
University of Athens, Greece
Philosophy, Ancient and Modern Greek (1958-1959)
University of Munich, Germany
Philosophy, Greek and Latin, Theology (1959-1961)
Catholic University, Valparaiso, Chile
Philosophy, Greek and Latin (1961-1962)
Doctoral
University of Tübingen, Germany
Philosophy, Greek, Ancient History (1963-1964)
University of Munich, Germany
Philosophy, Greek, Ancient History (1964-1966)
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Post-doctoral
University of Heidelberg
Research in Philosophy (1970-1972)
Pennsylvania State University
Interdisciplinary research (1976-1977)
HONORS
Typaldos Scholarship, Athens, Greece (1958-1959)
Scholarship of the Bavarian State Department for
Education, Munich (1960-1961)
Scholarship of the Deutscher Akademischer
Austauschdienst, Bonn (1963-1966)
Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt
Foundation, Bonn (1970-1972)
Fulbright-Hays Travel Award for University
Lecturing in USA (1974)
Award of the Humboldt Foundation for Congress
Participation and University Lecturing in the.
Federal Republic of Germany (1976)
Fellowship, Interdisciplinary Program Pennsylvania
State University (1976-1977)
Summer Academic Research Grants
Georgetown University (1979,1981,1984,1986,1987, 1991)
Research Fellowship
Guggenheim Foundation, New York (1986)
Appointment to the Ryan Chair
Georgetown University (1996)
Prize for contributions to Greek culture
Embassy of Greece (1998)
CERTIFICATION
Licenciado en Filosofía y Educación
Catholic University of Valparaíso (1963)
Dr. phil., University of Munich
(Philosophy, Classics, Ancient History)
magna cum laude (1966)
APPOINTMENTS AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE
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Catholic University of Valparaíso, Chile
Instructor in Philosophy and Ancient History
(1963); Lecturer in Philosophy (1966-1970);
Chairman ad interim (1969-1969); Professor of
Philosophy (1972-1973).
Part-time appointments at the State University
of Chile, Valparaíso, and the Pontifical Catholic
University of Chile, Santiago (1967-70, 1972-73).
University of Puerto Rico
Visiting appointment (Jan. -Dec. 1974 )
Pennsylvania State University
Visiting Associate Professor, Dept. of Philosophy
(1975-1977), Dept. of Classics (1976).
Georgetown University
Assistant Professor of Philosophy (1977-1979)
Associate Professor of Philosophy (1979-1986)
Professor of Philosophy (1986- )
Director, Greece Program (1981-1997)
Ryan Professorship (1996)
LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
Spanish, Ancient Greek and Latin, English, German
Modern Greek, French, Italian
AREAS OF COMPETENCE
Presocratics, Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas
Ethics, Metaphysics, Basic Mathematical Logic, Frege
Ancient Greek, Greek History, Greek Literature,
Herodotus, Thucydides
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
American Philosophical Association, Society for
Ancient Greek Philosophy, American Catholic
Philosophical Association, Advisory Committee of
the Latinamerican Journal of Philosophy, Sociedad
Filosofica Ibero-Americana, Board of Analogia.
LECTURES AND PAPERS
Pennsylvania State University (Dec. 1974)
Duquesne University (Dec. 1974)
Hiram College (Oct. 1975)
American Philological Association (Dec. 1975)
University of Heidelberg (Oct. 1976)
University of Frankfurt (Oct. 1976)
Oriel College, Oxford (Oct. 1976)
American Philosophical Association (Dec. 1976)
American Philological Association (Dec. 1976)
Stanford University (Jan. 1977)
Georgetown University (Jan. 1977)
Catholic University of America (Feb. 1977)
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American University (Mar. 1978)
Aristotle World Congress, Greece (Aug. 1978)
Catholic University of America (Oct. 1978)
Bryn Mawr College (Mar. 1979)
Pennsylvania State University (Feb. 1980)
Washington Philosophy Club (April 1980)
Goethe Institut, Chile (Aug. 1981)
Academia de Humanismo Cristiano, Chile (Aug. 1981)
X Interamerican Congress of Philosophy,Tallahassee (Oct.1981)
University of Iowa (Sept. 1982)
Georgetown University, The President's Lectures (Jan.1982)
XVII World Congress of Philosophy, Montreal (Aug. 1983)
Goethe Institut, Chile (Nov. 1983)
Academia de Humanismo Cristiano, Chile (Nov. 1983)
Am. Catholic Philosophical Association, (Mar.1984)
University of Kentucky (April 1984)
National University of Mexico (June 1984)
University of Tuebingen (Oct. 1984)
University of Notre Dame (March 1985)
Am. Catholic Philosophical Association,(April 1985)
XI Interamerican Congress of Philosophy, Guadalajara (Nov. 1985)
University of Valparaiso, Chile (April 1986)
Catholic University of Chile, Santiago (May 1986)
University of Chile, Santiago (May 1986)
University of La Plata, Argentina (June 1986)
University of Buenos Aires, Argentina (June 1986)
National University of Mexico (July 1986)
George Washington University (April 1987)
University of Münster, Germany (Sept. 1987)
Hampden-Sydney College (Oct. 1987)
University of Dayton, Ohio (Nov. 1987)
Soc. for Ancient Greek Philosophy, Cincinnati (April 1988)
University of Buenos Aires (July 1989)
Catholic University of Chile (August, 1989)
National University of Mexico (Nov. 1989)
Catholic University of America (March 1990)
University of Puerto Rico (March 1991)
Am. Catholic Philosophical Association, Boston (April 1991)
National University of Mexico (Oct. 1991)
Law School, Diego Portales University, Santiago (April 1992)
Cath. University of Chile (June 1992)
Jesuit Central American University, El Salvador (Oct. 1992)
Jesuit Central American University, El Salvador (Oct. 1993)
Georgetown University (Nov. 1993)
George Washington University (Feb. 1994)
XIII Interamerican Congress of Philosophy, Bogotá (July 1994)
Center for Hellenic Studies of Harvard University (Jan. 1996)
Colgate University (March 1996)
Center for Public Policy, Santiago, Chile (August 1996)
Universidad Jesuita Alberto Hurtado, Santiago, Chile, (August 1998)
Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile (August 1998)
Universidad Complutense, Madrid (September 1998)
Johns Hopkins, Odyssey Program (Oct. 1998)
Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Sept. 1998)
Universidad de Navarra (May 1999)
Universidad de Barcelona (June 1999)
XIV Interamerican Congress of Philosophy, Puebla (Aug. 1999)
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Hellenic Society, Washington DC (Jan. 2000)
International Socrates Congress, Athens and Delphi, Greece (July 2001)
University of Rochester, New York (Oct. 2001)
Hellenic Society, NY (with Prof. A. Nehamas, Princeton) (Oct. 2002)
University of Michigan (Sept. 2003)
Hillsdale College (Oct. 2003)
Georgetown Medical School (Dec. 2003)
Alfonso Gómez-Lobo
PUBLICATIONS
Dissertation
Symbebekos in der Metaphysik des Aristoteles, München: Ch. Schoen, 1966.
Books
Gottlob Frege, Lógica y Semántica introducción, traducción y selección bibliográfica de Alfonso
Gómez-Lobo, Valparaíso: Ediciones Universitarias, 1972 (Spanish edition of the basic writings of the
founder of modern mathematical logic).
Parménides, Texto, traducción y comentario, Buenos Aires: Editorial Charcas, 1985 (an edition of the
Greek text of Parmenides with Spanish translation and running commentary).
La Etica de Sócrates, México: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1989; 2nd ed. Santiago: Editorial
Andrés Bello, 1999.
The Foundations of Socratic Ethics, Indianapolis/Cambridge: Hackett, 1994.
(translated into English and partly rewritten by the author)
Les Fondements de L'Ethique Socratique, Villeneuve d'Ascq: Presses
Universitaires du Septentrion, 1996 (translated into French by N. Ooms,
Michael Frede, Oxford).
with a preface by
Platón, Eutifrón, Santiago: Editorial Universitaria, 1996 (translated from
Spanish with introduction, analyses and notes).
Greek
into
Platón, Critón, Santiago: Editorial Universitaria, 1998 (translated from
Spanish with introduction, analyses and notes).
Greek
into
El Poema de Parménides, Texto griego, traducción y comentario, 2nd. ed., Santiago: Editorial
Universitaria, 1999.
Morality and the Human Goods, Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2001.
Platón, Menón, Santiago: Editorial Universitaria, 2002 (translated from Greek into Spanish with
introduction, analyses and notes)
Book chapters
Antropología Filosófica y Etica, in Rafael Sevilla (ed), La Evolución, el Hombre y lo Humano,
Tübingen, 1986, pp. 200-213.
Autopredicación, in C. Eggers Lan (ed.), Platón: Los Diálogos Tardíos
Platonicum de 1986, México: UNAM, 1987, 103-123.
Actas del Symposium
Aristotle's Ethics in R. Cavalier, J. Guinlock and J. Sterba (eds), Ethics in the History of Western
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Philosophy, London: Macmillan/New York: St. Martin's, 1989.
Zur Logik und Ethik der Folter, in F. Inciarte & B. Wald (eds.) Menschenrechte und Entwicklung,
Frankfurt/Main, 1992, pp. 49 - 59.
El Nuevo Rostro del Iusnaturalismo in A.Squella (ed.), Positivismo Jurídico y Doctrinas del Derecho
Natural, Valparaíso: Universidad de Valparaíso, 1998.
El Bien y lo Recto en Aristóteles in Carlos García Gual (ed.), Historia de la Filosofía Antigua,
Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 1997.
Aristóteles y el Aristotelismo Antiguo in Jorge Gracia (ed.), Concepciones de la Metafísica, Madrid:
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 1998.
Articles
"Aristóteles y la actividad filosófica", Revista de Filosofía (Chile) 11 (1964): 67-74.
"Aristóteles en Cinco Lecciones de Filosofía de Xavier Zubiri", Revista de Filosofía (Chile) 12 (1965):
241-245.
La Experiencia Filosófica en Plotino y San Agustín, Monografías de la Universidad Católica de
Valparaíso, 1969
El Problema de la Verdad en la Metafísica de Aristóteles, Monografías de la Universidad Católica de
Valparaíso, 1970.
"Platón, Sofista 244b 6 - d 13", Diálogos (Puerto Rico) 26 (1974): 131-137.
"Trasímaco y el derecho en la República de Platón", Teoría (Chile) 1 (1975): 3-10.
"Sobre 'lo que es en cuanto es' en Aristóteles", Revista Latinoamericana de Filosofía 2 (1976): 19-26.
"Martin Heidegger", Mensaje (Chile), 255 (1976): 623-629
"Nota crítica sobre la hermenéutica", Escritos de Teoría (Chile) 1 (1976):45-53.
"Parménides: Las Puertas del Día y de la Noche", Revista Latinoamericana de Filosofía 3 (1977): 185188.
"Las vías de Parménides", Revista Latinoamericana de Filosofía 3 (1977): 269-281.
"Filosofía Analítica", Mensaje 273 (1978): 649-652.
"Plato's description of dialectic in the Sophist 253d" Phronesis 22 (1977): 29-47.
"Aristotle's hypotheses and the Euclidean postulates", Review of Metaphysics 30 (1977): 430-439.
"Aristotle's First Philosophy and the principles of particular disciplines", Zeitschrift für philosophische
Forschung 32 (1978): 183-194.
"Platón, Sofista 256e 5 - 6", Crítica (México) 11 (1979) 3-13.
"The so-called questions of existence in Aristotle, Posterior Analytics II. 1-2", Review of Metaphysics 34
(1980): 71-89.
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"Aristotle, Metaphysics H.2", Diálogos (Puerto Rico) 38 (1981): 7-12.
"Dialectic in the Sophist . A reply to Waletzki", Phronesis 26 (1981): 80-83.
"Retractación sobre el proemio de Parménides", Revista Latinoamericana de Filosofía 7 (1981): 253-260.
"Definitions in Aristotle's Posterior Analytics " in Dominic O'Meara (ed), Studies in Aristotle , Washington,
D.C., 1981, pp.25-46.
"Deliberación y razonamiento moral en Aristóteles", Revista Latinoamericana de Filosofía 10 (1984): 253260, reprinted in Anuario de Filosofía Jurídica y Social No 2, Estudios en memoria de Jorge Millas,
Valparaíso, 1984, 105-114.
"El Proemio de Parménides y sus intérpretes alemanes", Revista de Filosofía (Chile) 23-24 (1984): 59-76.
"Etica de Sócrates", Revista Universitaria (Universidad Católica de Chile) 14 (1985): 8-11.
"¿Es la metafísica aristotélica una ciencia buscada?", Revista de Filosofía (Chile) 25/26 (1985): 45-50.
"Sobre la inferencia de la definición aristotélica de la felicidad", Revista de Filosofía (Chile) 27/28 (1986):
15-23
"Etica Aristotélica Hoy", Philosophy and Culture, Proceedings of the XVII World Congress of Philosophy
(Montreal, Aug. 1983), Vol. IV, Montreal, 1988,
"Natural Law and Naturalism", Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 56
(1984): 232-249.
"Derecho Natural: Un Análisis Contemporáneo de sus Fundamentos", Anuario de Filosofia Jurídica y
Social (Valparaíso, 1985): 177-198, reprinted in Revista Latinoamericana de Filosofía 12 (1986): 143160.
"Anotaciones críticas a la Apología y Critón de la Biblioteca Clásica Gredos", Methexis 1 (1988): 89-95.
"The ergon inference", Phronesis 34 (1989): 170-184, reprinted with changes in J.P. Anton & A. Preus,
Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy, Vol. IV, Albany, 1991, pp. 43 - 57.
"Philosophical remarks on Thucydides' Melian Dialogue",
Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium
in Ancient Philosophy, Vol. V, Lanham, 1991, pp. 181 - 203.
"El diálogo de Melos y la visión histórica de Tucídides", Nova Tellus (UNAM, México) 7 (1989):9 - 31,
reprinted in Estudios Públicos 44 (1991) 247-273.
"Los axiomas de la ética socrática", Methexis, 3 (1990): 1-13.
"La fundamentación de la ética aristotélica," Diánoia (México) 37 (1991): 1 - 15. Reprinted in Anuario
Filosófico (University of Navarra) 32 (1999): 17 - 37.
"Gregory Vlastos. In memoriam." Methexis 5 (1992): 123 - 128.
"Problemas actuales en la fundamentación de la ética," Persona y Sociedad 6 (1992): 15 - 26.
"Un conjunto razonable de axiomas para la ética," Persona y Sociedad 6 (1992): 27 - 37.
"Etica y Empresa", Administración y Economía UC. (1992) 35-37.
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"Ironía socrática" Festschrift for Ezequiel de Olaso, Revista Latinoamericana de Filosofía 19 (1993) 189202.
"Escritos políticos de Platón", Estudios Públicos 51 (1993): 337-410.
"Textos escogidos de la Etica Nicomaquea de Aristóteles", Estudios Públicos 56 (1994): 273-326.
"Platón contra Tucídides", Carlos B. Gutiérrez (ed.), El Trabajo Filosófico de Hoy en el Continente
(Proceedings of the XIII Interamerican Congress of Philosophy) Bogotá, 1995, 83 - 96.
"Las intenciones de Heródoto", Estudios Públicos 59 (1995): 65-80.
"Sócrates: ¿Filósofo en el límite?, Revista Latinoamericana de Filosofía 21 (1995): 159 - 165.
"Aristotle's right reason" en R. Bosley, R. Shiner, J. Sisson (eds), Aristotle, Virtue and the Mean,
(Supplementary Volume of Apeiron) Edmonston, 1995, pp. 15 - 34.
"Exposición breve de la metafísica aristotélica", Estudios Públicos 62 (1996): 309 - 327.
"Selección de textos histórico-políticos de Tucídides", Estudios Públicos 64 (1996): 225 - 330.
"Las olimpíadas en el mundo antiguo", Estudios Públicos 65 (1996): 81 - 101.
"Exposición breve de la ética aristotélica", Estudios Públicos 71 (1998) 297 - 319.
[Publications between 1999 and 2003 are missing]
Translations
G. Frege, "Sobre sentido y denotacion", Diálogos 22 (1972)147-170 (from German into Spanish)
"La digresion filosofica de la Carta VII de Platon", Diálogos 26 (1974) 119-129 (from Greek into Spanish)
Joachim Ritter, "On the foundations of practical philosophy in Aristotle", Contemporary German
Philosophy 2 (1983) 39-58 (from German into English)
Bibliography
"Platon, El Sofista. Una seleccion bibliografica", Dialogos 28 (1975) 141-151 (includes over 100 titles of
editions, trans., books and articles on the Sophist, with brief introduction and notes)
Book reviews
E. Tugendhat, TI KATA TINOS, Eine Untersuchung zu Struktur und Ursprung aristotelischer Grundbegriffe,
Freiburg, 1958, Revista de Filosofia (Chile) 8 (1961) 129-130
Aristotle, De Anima, ed. with intr. and comm. by Sir David Ross, Oxford, 1961, Anales de la Universidad
de Chile 140 (1966) 268-270
O. Pöggeler, Der Denkweg Martin Heideggers, Pfullingen, 1963, Anales de la Universidad de Chile 145
(1868) 159-162
Idee und Zahl, Studien zur platonischen Philosophie, Abhandlungen der Heidelberger Akademie der
Wissenschaften, Heidelberg, 1968, Dialogos 17 (1969) 119-122
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Aristoteles, De Anima, trad. y notas por A.Llanos, Buenos Aires, 1969, Dialogos 17 (1969) 122-124
Aristoteles, Metaphysik, uebers.von H. Bonitz, hrsg. von H. Carvallo und E. Grassi, Hamburg, 1966,
Dialogos 17 (1969) 124-126
H. Gundert, Der platonische Dialog, Heidelberg, 1968, Dialogos 17 (1969) 126-128
G.W.F. Hegel, Werke, Frankfurt/Main, 1969-1971, Dialogos 22 (1972) 201-204
G. Frege, Nachgelassene Schriften, Hamburg, 1969, Dialogos 23 (1972) 187-190
L. Routila, Die aristotelische Idee der ersten Philosophie, Amsterdam, 1969, Dialogos 25 (1973) 174-177
J.L. Blasco, Lenguaje, Filosofia y Conocimiento, Barcelona, 1973, Dialogos 27 (1974) 141-144
T.M. Simpson (ed), Semantica Filosofica: Problemas y Discusiones, Buenos Aires, 1973, Dialogos 27
(1974) 144-146
G. Vlastos (ed), Plato I: Metaphysics and Epistemology, Garden City, N.Y., 1970, Dialogos
174-176
27 (1974)
G. Vlastos, Platonic Studies, Princeton, 1973, Revista Latinoamericana de Filosofia 1 (1975) 254-265
R.A. Orayen, La Ontología de Frege, La Plata, Dialogos 28 (1975) 157-163
Aristote, Éthique a Eudeme , intr., traduction, notes et indices par V. Décarie, Paris/Montreal, 1978, Review
of Metaphysics 32 (1979) 735-736
W.D.Ross, Aristoteles , Buenos Aires, 1981, Revista Latinoamericana de Filosofia, 7 (1981) 284-286
J. Finnis, Natural Law and Natural Rights, Oxford, 1980, Revista Latinoamericana de Filosofia 8 (1982)
282-284
G.S. Kirk, J.E. Raven and M. Schofield, The Presocratic Philosophers, Second Edition, Cambridge, 1983,
Revista Latinoamericana de Filosofia 11 (1985) 189-191
H. Flashar (hrsg), Aeltere Akademie-Aristoteles-Peripatos, (Ueberweg, Grundriss der Geschichte der
Philosophie , Die Philosophie der Antike, Band 3), Basel/Stuttgart, 1983, Journal of the History of
Philosophy, 24 (1986) 403-407
E. Lledó, La Memoria del Logos, Madrid, 1984, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 70 (1988): 103 104.
A. Cappelletti, Las Teorías del Sueño en la Filosofía Antigua, México, 1989, Ancient Philosophy 11
(1991): 445 - 447.
M. Isnardi Parente, Stoichi Antichi, Torino, 1989, Revista Latinoamericana de Filosofía 17 (1991): 357 358.
G. Vlastos, Socrates, Ironist and Moral Philosopher, Ithaka, 1991, Methexis 5 (1992): 163 - 166.
S. Broadie, Ethics with Aristotle, Oxford, 1991, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 55 (Sept.
1995): 728 - 731.