Alan Dodd Code (born 1951) is Ward W. and Priscilla B. Woods Professor of

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and Professor of

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(by courtesy) at

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, and also Professor

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of Philosophy at

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. He is a leading scholar of

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, especially well known for his articles on Aristotle's metaphysics, science, and logic.

Education and career

Code did his BA, MA, and PhD at the

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, writing his dissertation under Terry Penner. Before taking up a position at Stanford in 2011, he was Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy at

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. Prior to that, he taught for many years at Berkeley, and also at the

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and

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. He was elected a Fellow of the

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in 2013.

Philosophical work

Some of Code's papers are considered centrally important to the understanding of Aristotle's metaphysics and philosophy of science. He has commented on, clarified and extended the work of such eminent scholars as G. E. L. Owen and Montgomery Furth.Code, Alan. "Monty Furth's Aristotle: 10 Years Later", Philosophical Studies 94 (1999):69-80

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Education and career

Philosophical work

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