Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D., Yale, 1991
Specialties: Neoplatonism, Plato, Ancient Philosophy
Current Projects: A book, Thinking Being: Introduction to Metaphysics in the Classical Tradition; articles, "The Motion of Intellect: On the Neoplatonic Reading of Sophist 248e-249d;" "The Analogy of Transcendence: The Significance of Proposition 130 in Proclus' Elements of Theology."
Selected Publications:
Theophany: The Neoplatonic Philosophy of Dionysius the Areopagite [Albany: SUNY Press, 2007].
“Esse Tantum and the One." Quaestiones Disputatae 1 (2011): 163-178.
"Neither One nor Many: God and the Gods in Plotinus, Proclus, and Aquinas." Dionysius 28 (2010): 167-191.
Contact Information:
University Hall 3633
Phone: 310-338-2969
Email: eperl@lmu.edu