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Sextus on NumberIn Proceedings of the Eleventh Symposium Hellenisticism, Cambridge University Press. 2012.
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80Ethics and Epistemology in Sextus EmpircusRoutledge. 1999.This book defends the consistency, plausibility, and interest of the brand of Ancient Skepticism described in the writings of Sextus Empiricus, both through detailed exegesis of the original texts, and through sustained engagement with an array of modern critics
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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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666The 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
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79Stoic Moral PsychologyIn B. Inwood (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Stoics, Cambridge University Press. 2003.
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425Casey Perin’s The Demands of ReasonInternational Journal for the Study of Skepticism 3 (4): 283-293. 2013.
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748A 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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45Stoic Philosophy of ReligionIn Graham Robert Oppy & Nick Trakakis (eds.), Medieval Philosophy of Religion: The History of Western Philosophy of Religion, Volume 2, Oxford University Press. 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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48Review. Aristotle: On the Heavens I and II. S LeggattThe Classical Review 47 (2): 282-284. 1997.
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1252Epicurus 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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29Simplicius: on Epictetus' Handbook 1-26 (edited book)Duckworth & Cornell. 2002.Originally published by Duckworth in 2002.
Princeton University
PhD, 1993
Ithaca, New York, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
History of Western Philosophy |