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Daryn Lehoux

Professor - On Leave

Department of Classics & Archaeology

Faculty of Arts and Science

Research Interests: Ancient science and epistemology; Greek and Roman philosophy; astronomy, astrology, mathematics, and medicine; 'scientization' of race and gender.

Department of Classics
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Selected Publications

Books

  •  (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017)

    Reviews: "A historical tour de force ... the author's brilliant prose [makes] the reader appreciate at one time the strangeness and the persuasive power of outmoded scientific explanations."  (Paolo Savoia, Nuncius 34); "Concise and accessible, Lehoux's clarity and graceful prose make this book ... a pleasure to delve into." (James Strick, HOPOS 8)

  • , co-editor with A. D. Morrison and A. Sharrock (Oxford, 2013)

    Reviews: 鈥渋ncisive ... magisterial ... constitutes a distinguished interdisciplinary contribution to contemporary Lucretian scholarship鈥� (Choice, Mar. 2014); 鈥渁 valuable collection, including several pieces ... that will stand as landmarks in their respective domains鈥� (Journal of Roman Studies 104); 鈥淨uite simply, this is an excellent collection鈥� (Phoenix 68)

  •  (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2012)

    Reviews: 鈥渢he most original and provocative contribution to the understanding of ancient science in many years. ... a brilliant and important contribution both to ancient science and the philosophy of science" (Annals of Science, 71.2); 鈥淭his book is a jewel.鈥� (Isis 104); "superbly clear and accessible ... [an] important, brilliant, and truly admirable book鈥� (Science); 鈥渆legant ... a significant contribution to the philosophy of science" (Times Literary Supplement; Times Higher Education); "unprecedented and fascinating ... richly repays study" (British Journal for the History of Science);  "thought-provoking, a virtuoso book鈥� (History Today); "epistemologically sophisticated .. an exciting opportunity for a new beginning" (Expositions Roundtable); "comprehensive and thoughtful ... fresh ... thought-provoking鈥�  (Expositions68)

  • , subject editor, ancient science; R. Bagnall et al., general eds. (Wiley, 2012)
  •  (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007)

    Reviews: 鈥淭his book will deservedly become the fundamental source for its subject鈥� (Metascience 19.1); 鈥渁 significant and timely contribution to the field鈥� (Isis 100.4); 鈥渁n essential one-stop reference鈥� (Aestimatio 5)

Selected Papers

      Ancient Science

  • 鈥榃hy Doesn鈥檛 My Baby Look Like Me? Likeness and Likelihood in Ancient Theories of Reproduction,鈥� in V. Wohl, ed., Probabilities, Hypotheticals, and Counterfactuals in Ancient Greek Thought (Cambridge, 2014), p. 208-229
  • 鈥�,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Zeitschrift f眉r Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 187 (2013) p. 221-229 [with George Bevan and Richard Talbert]
  • 鈥楽eeing and Unseeing, Seen and Unseen,鈥� in D. Lehoux, A. D. Morrison, and A. Sharrock, eds.,  (Oxford, 2013) p. 131-152
  • 鈥�,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;ISIS, 104 (2013) p. 111-118
  • 鈥�,鈥� (essay review of Thomas Kuhn鈥檚 Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 50th Anniversary ed.), Science, 338 (16 Nov. 2012), p. 885-6 [with Jay Foster]
  • 鈥楳yth and Explanation in Manilius,鈥� in K. Volk and S. Green, eds.,  (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2011) p. 45-56
  • 鈥楴atural Knowledge in Classical Antiquity,鈥� in P. Harrison, R. Numbers, and M. Shank, eds.,  (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2011) p. 37-58
  • 'Observers, Objects, and the Embedded Eye.' Isis ,98 (2007) p. 447-467. (Winner of the History of Science Society's )
  • 'Laws of Nature and Natural Laws.' Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 37 (2006) p. 527-549
  • 'Tomorrow's News Today: Astrology, Fate, and the Ways Out.' Representations, 95 (2006) p. 105-122
  • 'Tropes, Facts, and Empiricism.' Perspectives on Science, 11 (2003) p. 326-345
  • 'Observation and Prediction in Ancient Astrology.' Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 35 (2004) p. 227-246
  • 'The Historicity Question in Mesopotamian Divination.' In J.M. Steele and A. Imhausen, eds., Under One Sky: Astronomy and Mathematics in the Ancient Near East, Alter Orient und Altes Testament, 297 (M眉nster, Ugarit-Verlag, 2002) p. 209-222
  • 'All Voids Large and Small, Being a Discussion of Place and Void in Strato of Lampsacus's Matter Theory.' Apeiron ,32 (1999) p. 1-36

      Delphic Oracle

  • 'Drugs and the Delphic Oracle.' Classical World,101 (2007) p. 29-44
  • 'The Ethylene-Intoxication Hypothesis and the Delphic Oracle.' Clinical Toxicology,45.1 (2007) p. 85-89 [with Jay Foster]
  • 'A Mighty Wind?' Clinical Toxicology, 46.10 (2008) p. 1098-1099 [with Jay Foster]

       Parapegmata

  • 'Rethinking Parapegmata: The Puteoli Fragment.' Zeitschrift f眉r Papyrologie und Epigraphik,157 (2006) p. 95-104
  • 'The Miletus Parapegma Fragments.' Zeitschrift f眉r Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 152 (2005) p. 125-140
  • 'Image, Text, and Pattern: Reconstructing Parapegmata.' In A. Jones, ed., Reconstructing Ancient Texts,Toronto, University of Toronto Press, forthcoming (preprint: page numbers not final)
  • 'Impersonal and Intransitive episemainei.'  Classical Philology, 99 (2004) p. 78-85

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