Charles H. Kahn

Research is devoted to the history of philosophy, mostly Greek. He has published extensively on Presocratic philosophy, with emphasis on the origins of Greek cosmology and the interaction between science and religion in early Greek thought. He has developed a new reading of Plato's dialogues as the diversified literary expression for a unified world view. He recently composed a history of the Pythagorean movement from archaic Greek to Copernicus and Kepler. He has also published in historical linguistics and is currently preparing a new edition of his older study on the verb to be in Ancient Greek.