About

I am a Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I am also the Associate Chair of the UNC Philosophy Department. My research focuses on Aristotle, and mainly on his natural philosophy, his philosophy of science, and its intersections with early medicine. I have also worked on his views on women and race. 

 

I have written three monographs: Explanation and Teleology in Aristotle’s Science of Nature (CUP 2010), From Natural Character to Moral Virtue in Aristotle (OUP 2017), and Aristotle's Gynecology. Facts, Evidence, and Early Medicine (OUP 2025). I am also the editor of Aristotle's Physics: A Critical Guide (CUP 2015), and my papers have appeared in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Journal of the History of Philosophy, Phronesis, Apeiron, and a number of edited volumes.

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I currently serve on the Board of Directors for the Journal of the History of Philosophy and on the Advisory Board for Philosophia Antiqua, published by Brill, and I am co-editor of Apeiron. 

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In 2022-2023, I held a residential fellowship at the National Humanities Center.

In 2023-2024, I won the UNC Chapman Family Teaching Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. ​

 

My CV can be found here.

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You can contact me at mleunissen at unc.edu