Richard D. McKirahan Jr. is an American philosopher and Edwin Clarence Norton Professor of Classics and Professor of Philosophy at Pomona College in Claremont, California.^[1] He is known for his works on Pre-Socratics.^[2][3]

McKirahan attended the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Oxford as a Marshall Scholar before completing his doctorate at Harvard University.^[1]

McKirahan began teaching at Pomona in 1987.^[1] He is the president of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, a position he has held since 2012.^[1]

• —— (1992). Principles and Proofs: Aristotle's Theory of Demonstrative Species. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691629872.
• —— (1994). Philosophy Before Socrates: An Introduction with Texts and Commentary. Indianapolis: Hackett. ISBN 978-1-60384-182-5.^[2][3]
• Curd, Patricia, ed. (1996). A PreSocratics Reader: Selected Fragments and Testimonia. Translated by ——; Curd, Patricia. Indianapolis: Hackett. ISBN 9781603843058.