| 词条 | J. L. Ackrill |
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BiographyAckrill was born, to Frederick William Ackrill and Jessie Anne Ackril[2], in Reading, Berkshire where he attended Reading School. In 1940 he entered John's College, Oxford, as a scholar in Classics[3] where his philosophy tutors were Paul Grice and John Mabbott[2].The next year he left for war service in the Royal Berkshire Regiment and General Staff, reaching the rank of captain. He returned to Oxford in 1945 to read Literae Humaniore, graduating in 1948. He then accepted a teaching position as assistant lecturer in Logic at Glasgow before being appointed university lecturer at Oxford in Ancient Philosophy in 1949. Granted two years of study-leave, Ackrill was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1950-51 (as he was again in 1961-62)[4] before becoming, in 1953, a tutorial fellow at Brasenose College. In 1966, Oxford university created a statutory chair in the History of Philosophy, to which Ackrill was elected as the first holder. He retained that Chair, whilst remaining a fellow of Brasenose, until he retired in 1989 as an Emeritus Professor. In 1981 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy and, in 1996, an Honorary Fellow of St John's.[3] In 1953 he married Margaret Kerr with whom he had four children. John Lloyd Ackrill died in Oxford on 30 November 2007.[3] In 2009, Brasenose College inaugurated The John Ackrill Memorial Lecture which is held annually "in honour of the outstanding contribution he made to the study of ancient philosophy".[5] Major writingsBooks
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References1. ^Owen Goldin „J. L. Ackrill, Essays on Plato and Aristotle.“ in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 98.4.01. 2. ^1 {{Cite journal|last=Judson|first=Lindsay|date=2009-12-17|title=John Lloyd Ackrill 1921–2007|url=http://britishacademy.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.5871/bacad/9780197264577.001.0001/upso-9780197264577-chapter-1|language=en-US|doi=10.5871/bacad/9780197264577.001.0001/upso-9780197264577-chapter-1}} 3. ^1 2 {{Cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/professor-john-ackrill-oxford-professor-of-the-history-of-philosophy-who-was-a-leader-in-the-study-765718.html|title=Professor John Ackrill: Oxford Professor of the History of Philosophy|work=The Independent|access-date=2018-11-30|language=en-GB}} 4. ^Institute for Advanced Study: A Community of Scholars 5. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.bnc.ox.ac.uk/about-brasenose/news/874-john-ackrill-memorial-lecture-in-ancient-philosophy-2011|title=John Ackrill Memorial Lecture in Ancient Philosophy 2011 - Brasenose College, Oxford|last=Organ|first=Joe|website=www.bnc.ox.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=2018-11-30}} External links
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