Catherine Osborne is Professor of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia, UK. As Catherine Osborne, she is the translator of "Philoponus: On Aristotle Physics 1.1-3" and "1.4-9", in the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series, both available from Bloomsbury (2006, 2009); author of "Dumb Beasts and Dead Philosophers: Humanity and the Human and Literature in Ancient Philosophy" (2007) and "Presocratic Philosophy: a very Short Introduction" (2004).