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68Stoic Philosophy of ReligionIn Graham Oppy & Nick Trakakis (eds.), Medieval Philosophy of Religion: The History of Western Philosophy of Religion, Volume 2, Routledge. pp. 3--105. 2009.A survey of Stoic views on religion, with an emphasis on their proofs of the existence and nature of Zeus.
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173Review. Aristotle: On the Heavens I and II. S LeggattThe Classical Review 47 (2): 282-284. 1997.
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2238Epicurus on sex, marriage, and childrenClassical Philology 91 346-52. 1996.Epicurus strongly discouraged sex, marriage, and the rearing of children. This paper looks at some of the primary evidence for these claims, clears up a translation of one passage, and emends another passage. (The emendation has been accepted into Dorandi's new edition of Diogenes Laertius).
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55Book Review. Lucretius and the Transformation of Greek Wisdom by David Sedley (review)Mind 109 (433): 176-79. 2000.
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57Simplicius: on Epictetus' Handbook 1-26 (edited book)Duckworth & Cornell. 2002.Originally published by Duckworth in 2002.
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984Casey Perin’s The Demands of ReasonInternational Journal for the Study of Skepticism 3 (4): 283-293. 2013.The Demands of Reason: An Essay on Pyrrhonian Scepticism. By Casey Perin. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. 130. ISBN 978-0-19-955790-5.
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1433A Relative ImprovementPhronesis 59 (3): 246-271. 2014.The Mode of Relativity in Agrippa’s Five Modes does not fit with the other four modes, and disrupts an otherwise elegant system. We argue that it is not the familiar argument from epistemic relativism, but a formal condition on the structure of justifications: the principle that epistemic grounding relations cannot be reflexive. This understanding of Agrippan Relativity leads to a better understanding of the Modes of Hypothesis and Reciprocity, a clearer outline of the structure of Agrippa’s sys…Read more
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104Stoic souls in Stoic corpsesIn Dorothea Frede & Burkhard Reis (eds.), Body and Soul in Ancient Philosophy, Walter De Gruyter. pp. 389-408. 2009.
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3580Fate and Free Will in Stoicism: A Discussion of Susanne Bobzien, Determinism and Freedom in Stoic PhilosophyIn David Sedley (ed.), Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Oxford University Press. pp. 259-286. 2000.
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1085Pyrrho on the CriterionAncient Philosophy 18 (2): 417-434. 1998.I argue that Pyrrho was an epistemological skeptic, rather than the possessor of a positive metaphysical view.
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119Arius, Stobaeus And The ScholiastClassical Quarterly 64 (1): 270-279. 2014.In this article I argue for a change to the text of Stobaeus’ doxography of Stoic ethics. I propose we emend it by reference to a parallel text in the Scholia in Lucianum. In order to make that argument, I offer a new assessment of the value of the scholiast's report of Stoic doxography – a report that, at least in virtue of its length ought to be better known to scholars of Stoicism than it currently is.
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766The Stoic life: emotions, duties, and fateOxford University Press. 2005.Tad Brennan explains how to live the Stoic life--and why we might want to. Stoicism has been one of the main currents of thought in Western civilization for two thousand years: Brennan offers a fascinating guide through the ethical ideas of the original Stoic philosophers, and shows how valuable these ideas remain today, both intellectually and in practice. He writes in a lively informal style which will bring Stoicism to life for readers who are new to ancient philosophy. The Stoic Life will al…Read more
Princeton University
PhD, 1993
Ithaca, New York, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
| Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
| History of Western Philosophy |