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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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Commentary on Sauve MeyerProceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 20 244-262. 2004.
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Sextus on NumberIn Proceedings of the Eleventh Symposium Hellenisticism, Cambridge University Press. 2012.
Princeton University
PhD, 1993
Ithaca, New York, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
History of Western Philosophy |