Assistant Professor
About
Gabriel Shapiro specializes in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy. His recent work focuses on ancient Greek metaphysics, especially ontology, essentialism and the Principle of Non-Contradiction. He is currently working on projects concerning Aristotle's argument that it is impossible to believe a contradiction, the ontology of Plato's Republic and a forgotten argument for essentialism in Aristotle. His interests also include ancient Greek epistemology and ethics, contemporary metaphysics and the reception of Aristotelianism in medieval Arabic and Hebrew philosophy.
Gabriel received his PhD from Princeton University in 2022 for a dissertation on essentialism in Plato and Aristotle, and he spent 2022–24 at NYU as a Bersoff Faculty Fellow. His work has appeared in Phronesis, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, and the Journal of the HIstory of Philosophy (forthcoming).
