Dr. Palmer is lately returned from a year in residence at the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. He is working on a book on Parmenides and his relation to the major Presocratic philosophers.

Area of Specialization

• Ancient Philosophy

Selected Publications

• "Melissus and Parmenides." Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 26 (2004), 19-54. pdf file
• "On the alleged incorporeality of What Is in Melissus." Ancient Philosophy 23 (2003), 1-10. pdf file
• "A new testimonium on Diogenes of Apollonia, with remarks on Melissus' cosmology." Classical Quarterly 51 (2001), 7-17. pdf file
• "The New Academy's Appeals to the Presocratics." Phronesis 46 (2001), 38-72. (Co-authored with Charles Brittain, Cornell University).
• "Aristotle on the Ancient Theologians." Apeiron 33 (2000), 181-206. pdf file
• "Skeptical Investigation." Ancient Philosophy 20 (2000), 351-75. pdf file
• Plato's Reception of Parmenides. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999.
• "Xenophanes Ouranian God in the Fourth Century." Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 16 (1998). pdf file

Graduate Education

• Princeton University, Program in Classical Philosophy
  (M.A. June 1992, Ph.D. January 1996)

Awards and Fellowships

• The American Council of Learned Societies' Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars (awarded 2003, fellowship year 2004-2005)
• Research Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge University (1995-1998)
• Mellon Fellow in the Humanities, Princeton University (1989-91, 1994)
• Marshall Scholar, St. John's College, Cambridge University (1987-89)

Professional Associations

• American Philosophical Association
• American Philological Association