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20Arius, 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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19Book Review. Lucretius and the Transformation of Greek Wisdom by David Sedley (review)Mind 109 (433): 176-79. 2000.
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12A mild remedy for a mild disease: The text of republic 459bClassical Quarterly 66 (2): 775-777. 2016.I correct the text of Republic 459b, where a word has dropped out and left us with a fallacious argument.
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7The kathekonPhilosophie Antique 14 41-70. 2014.Jacob Klein, a former Cornell student, has recently proposed what I believe to be an extremely interesting and profitable interpretation of the role of indifferents in Stoic ethics. Klein’s proposal is in some ways similar to some positions that I have taken in the past, and so I find it very congenial. But it develops these ideas in a much more precise way, and with consequences that are more radical than anything I had seen. I find it very plausible, although it requires me to abandon certa...
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4Aristotle's Modal Syllogistic. A Discussion of R. Patterson, Aristotle's Modal Logic,'Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 15 207-231. 1997.
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3Socrates and EpictetusIn Sara Ahbel‐Rappe & Rachana Kamtekar (eds.), A Companion to Socrates, Blackwell. 2005.This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction The Elenchus Differences of Structure Differences of Object Ironies Epictetan and Socratic Concluding Comparisons.
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1Fate and Free Will in Stoicism: A Discussion of Susanne Bobzien, Determinism and Freedom in Stoic PhilosophyIn David Sedley (ed.), Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy Volume Xxi: Winter 2001, Clarendon Press. 2001.
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Sextus on NumberIn Proceedings of the Eleventh Symposium Hellenisticism, Cambridge University Press. 2012.
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The stoicsIn Graham Oppy & Nick Trakakis (eds.), Medieval Philosophy of Religion: The History of Western Philosophy of Religion, Volume 2, Routledge. pp. 3--105. 2009.
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Commentary on Sauve MeyerProceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 20 244-262. 2004.
Princeton University
PhD, 1993
Ithaca, New York, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
History of Western Philosophy |