“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. Moreover, he was one of the main pillars of the Dublin Centre for the Study of the Platonic Tradition, based in Trinity College (of whose classics department he had been elected a research associate) …” (more)
[Irish Times, 2 May]