Gerard Watson

The Reverend Professor Gerard ("Gerry") Watson was an Irish Catholic priest and scholar of classics, theology, and the history of philosophy who died in 1998.^[1] He is best known for his book Greek Philosophy and the Christian Notion of God.^[2] Other works include The Stoic Theory of Knowledge,^[3] Phantasia in Classical Thought,^[4] and Plato's Unwritten Teaching.^[5] He also published a translation of Augustine's Soliloquies and Immortality of the Soul.^[6] In 1978 he was elected to membership in the Royal Irish Academy.

• Maynooth University

Further reading

• Watson, Gerard (1982). "ΦAnta∑ia In Aristotle, De Anima 3.3".
  doi:10.1017/S0009838800022849
  . Retrieved 31 January 2025.
• Watson, Gerard (1982). "Unfair to Proclus?".
  ISSN 0031-8868
  . Retrieved 3 March 2025.
• Watson, Gerard (1963). "Review of W.G. Runciman's Plato's Later Epistemology".
  doi:10.5840/philstudies19631232
  . Retrieved 3 March 2025.
• Watson, Gerard (1985). ""I Doubt, Therefore I Am": St. Augustine and Scepticism".
  JSTOR 20556991
  . Retrieved 3 March 2025.
• Watson, Gerard (1982). "St. Augustine's Theory of Language".
  JSTOR 20556950
  . Retrieved 3 March 2025.
• Watson, Gerard (September 1988). "Book Review: Augustinus-Lexikon Vol. 1, Fasc. 1/2. Edited by C. Mayer et al. Basel/Stuttgart: Verlag Schwabe & Co. AG, 1986".
  OCLC 60626549. Retrieved 3 March 2025. (Review of the first fascicle of the Augustinus-Lexikon
  .)

External links

• Augustine: Soliloquies and Immortality of the Soul
• Eklogai : Studies in Honour of Thomas Finan and Gerard Watson
• John Higgins on Eklogai: Studies in Honour of Thomas Finan and Gerard Watson
• The Royal Irish Academy
• Maynooth University

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