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Lloyd P. Gerson (Dec. 23, 1948, Chicago, Illinois) is an American-Canadian scholar of ancient philosophy, the history of philosophy, metaphysics, and Neoplatonism. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is best-known for his work on Plotinus, particularly his full-length translation of the Enneads that is based primarily on the Henry-Schwyzer editio minor (HS) Greek text.

Works

God and Greek Philosophy: Studies in the early history of natural theology, London: Routledge, 1990
Plotinus, London: Routledge, 1994, (Arguments of the Philosophers Series)
Knowing Persons. A Study in Plato, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004
Aristotle and Other Platonists, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005
Ancient Epistemology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009
From Plato to Platonism, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013
The Enneads, Cambridge University Press, 2018 (translated and edited with George Boys-Stones, John M. Dillon, R.A. King, Andrew Smith and James Wilberding)
Platonism and Naturalism. The Possibility of Philosophy, Cornell University Press, 2020
Plato's Moral Realism. Cambridge University Press, 2023.

CV at University of Toronto
Fraumeni, Paul. "Royal Society of Canada honours 19 U of T faculty members". U of T News. University of Toronto. Retrieved 1 May 2021.
Gerson, Lloyd P., ed. (2018). The Enneads. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-00177-0. OCLC 993492241.