in 2002. He was elected an external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2002. He was made an honorary citizen of the City of Rhodos. He received Santayana, Guggenheim and ACLS fellowships and was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and at the Collegium Budapest. He served as president of the American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, 1987–88, and of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy 2003–04. He was a member of the board of trustees of the American Society for Aesthetics, 1988–92, and in 1975 he was cofounder of the West Coast Aristotelian Society. Professional career Moravcsik wrote five books: 1975 Understanding Language: a study of theories of language in linguistics and in philosophy (Mouton, The Hague) 1990 Thought and Language (Routledge, London) 1992 Plato and Platonism (Blackwell, Oxford) 1998 Meaning, Creativity, and the Partial Inscrutability of the Human Mind (CSLI, Stanford) 2004 The Ties that Bind (CEU Press, Budapest) He also wrote over 90 articles on a variety of topics and he edited and co-edited a number of volumes. One of his first articles, "Being and Meaning in the Sophist" (1962), pioneered the use of techniques of analytical philosophy and logic to the interpretation of classical philosophy, and became a staple in seminars on Plato throughout the sixties. It has been reprinted in the Bobbs-Merrill classic philosophy series. Similar attention was given to many of his later works. A volume of papers by former students and colleagues, presented at a conference honoring him on the occasion of his retirement was published in 2009: Logos and language. Essays in honor of Julius Moravcsik. References 1931 births 2009 deaths American scholars of ancient Greek philosophy Hungarian emigrants to the United States Stanford University Department of Philosophy faculty Harvard University alumni University of Michigan faculty