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Sat 05 May 2009Committed educator and deep thinker
JOHN CLEARY, who has died aged 59 from complications arising from a liver transplant, was Associate Professor of Philosophy at NUI Maynooth and Professor of Philosophy at Boston College.
An authority in three areas of ancient philosophy – Plato and Aristotle, Neoplatonism (in particular Proclus) and the philosophy of mathematics – he made an outstanding contribution to philosophical and classical scholarship internationally as the founder and co-director of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy.
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