Marko Malink

Marko Malink is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and the College. He was born and educated in Germany, and received his M.A. from the University of Leipzig in 2004 and his Ph.D. from the Humboldt University Berlin in 2008. His area of specialization is ancient philosophy, especially ancient logic, but he also has strong interests in logic, philosophy of language, and linguistics. Malink’s research centers on Aristotle’s logic and metaphysics. He is working on the Prior Analytics’ modal syllogistic, and is concerned to show how Aristotle’s metaphysical views on essence and predication can help us to understand the modal syllogistic. He is also interested in the origin and development of the notion of formal logic in antiquity. Among more recent authors, figures of interest for him include Frege and Quine. In linguistics, he has worked on semantic issues concerning verbal aspect and temporal adverbs.