Neoplatonism and the Philosophy of Nature

James Wilberding is Professor in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy at the Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany. His publications include Plotinus' Cosmology (OUP, 2006), Philoponus: On the Eternity of the World Books 12-18 (Cornell and Duckworth, 2006), and Porphyry: To Gaurus on How Embryos are Ensouled and On What Is in Our Power (Cornell and Duckworth, 2011).Christoph Horn is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bonn, Germany. He works on various aspects of ancient philosophy (Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, Augustine) as well as modern moral and political thought. His monographs include Plotin über Sein, Zahl und Einheit (Teubner, 1995); Augustinus (Beck, 1995); Antike Lebenskunst (Beck, 1998); and Politische Philosophie (Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2003); and he has edited numerous volumesincluding Augustinus. De civitate dei (Akademie Verlag, 1997); (with Ch. Rapp) Wörterbuch der antiken Philosophie (Beck, 2002); (with A. Neschke) Politischer Aristotelismus. Die Rezeption der aristotelischen, Politik' von der Antike bis zum 19. Jahrhundert (Metzler 2008); (with J. Müller and J. Söder) Platon-Handbuch. Leben-Werk-Wirkung(Metzler, 2009); and (with G. Löhrer) Gründe und Zwecke-Texte zur aktuellen Handlungstheorie (Suhrkamp, 2010).