-
3The Hellenistic Philosophers: Volume 2, Greek and Latin Texts with Notes and BibliographyCambridge University Press. 1989.This comprehensive sourcebook makes available in the original Latin and Greek the principal extant texts required for the study of the Stoic, Epicurean and sceptical schools of philosophy. The material is organised by schools, and within each school topics are treated thematically. The volume presents the same texts as are translated in The Hellenistic Philosophers, Volume 1. The authors provide their own critical apparatus, and also supply detailed notes on the more difficult texts. This volume…Read more
-
33The Hellenistic Philosophers: Volume 1, Translations of the Principal Sources with Philosophical CommentaryCambridge University Press. 1987.Volume 1 presents the texts in new translations by the authors, and these are accompanied by a philosophical and historical commentary designed for use by all readers, including those with no background in the classical world. With its glossary and indexes, this volume can stand alone as an independent tool of study.
-
Les philosophes hellénistiques, 3 volRevue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 192 (2): 248-248. 2002.
-
97The midwife of Platonism: text and subtext in Plato's TheaetetusOxford University Press. 2004.Plato's Theaetetus is an acknowledged masterpiece, and among the most influential texts in the history of epistemology. Since antiquity it has been debated whether this dialogue was written by Plato to support his familiar metaphysical doctrines, or represents a self-distancing from these. David Sedley's book offers a via media, founded on a radical separation of the author, Plato, from his main speaker, Socrates. The dialogue, it is argued, is addressed to readers familiar with Plato's mature d…Read more
-
The Cambridge companion to Greek and Roman philosophy (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2003.This wide-ranging introduction to the study of philosophy in the ancient world surveys the period's developments and evaluates a comprehensive series of major thinkers, ranging from Pythagoras to Epicurus. Tables, illustrations, and extensive advice on further reading contribute to an ideal book for survey courses on the history of ancient philosophy. It will be an invaluable guide for those interested in the philosophical thought of a rich and formative period.
-
18Lucretius and the transformation of Greek wisdomCambridge University Press. 1998.This book is designed to appeal both to those interested in Roman poetry and to specialists in ancient philosophy. In it David Sedley explores Lucretius ' complex relationship with Greek culture, in particular with Empedocles, whose poetry was the model for his own, with Epicurus, the source of his philosophical inspiration, and with the Greek language itself. He includes a detailed reconstruction of Epicurus' great treatise On Nature, and seeks to show how Lucretius worked with this as his sole…Read more
-
2Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy: Volume 23 Winter 2002 (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 2002.Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics are the focuses of discussion in this volume.Editor: David Sedley, Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy, University of Cambridge.'standard reading among specialists in ancient philosophy' Brad Inwood, Bryn Mawr Classical Review.
-
34Colloquium 6: Aristotle on PlaceProceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 27 (1): 183-210. 2012.
-
1Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Volume Xxiv: Summer 2003 (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2003.Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. OSAP is now published twice yearly, in both hardback and paperback. Aristotle and the Stoics receive particular attention in this volume.
-
196 Hellenistic philosophyIn David Sedley (ed.), The Cambridge companion to Greek and Roman philosophy, Cambridge University Press. pp. 151. 2003.
-
214Platonic CausesPhronesis 43 (2): 114-132. 1998.This paper examines Plato's ideas on cause-effect relations in the "Phaedo." It maintains that he sees causes as things (not events, states of affairs or the like), with any information as to how that thing brings about the effect relegated to a strictly secondary status. This is argued to make good sense, so long as we recognise that aition means the "thing responsible" and exploit legal analogies in order to understand what this amounts to. Furthermore, provided that we do not pre-suppose that…Read more
-
2Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy: Volume Xxiv Summer 2003 (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 2003.Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. Aristotle and the Stoics receive particular attention in this volume.Editor: David Sedley, Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy, University of Cambridge.
-
6Equal sticks and stonesIn Dominic Scott (ed.), Maieusis: Essays in Ancient Philosophy in Honour of Myles Burnyeat, Oxford University Press. 2007.
-
Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy: Volume Xxviii (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 2005.Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. OSAP is now published twice yearly, in both hardback and paperback. This volume includes articles on Heraclitus and the Stoics and on Plotinus, with several on each of Aristotle and Plato.Editor: David Sedley, Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy, University of Cambridge'unique value as a collection…Read more
-
28Three kinds of Platonic immortalityIn Dorothea Frede & Burkhard Reis (eds.), Body and Soul in Ancient Philosophy, Walter De Gruyter. pp. 145--162. 2009.
-
1Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy: Volume Xxxiii, Winter 2007 (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 2007.Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. OSAP is now published twice yearly, in both hardback and paperback. This volume covers a wide chronological range of ancient philosophy, from the Presocratics, Heraclitus and Anaxagoras, to Galen and Aspasius in the second century AD. At the core of the volume are five articles on Aristotle.'The serial …Read more
-
21"Becoming Like God" in the "Timaeus" and AristotleIn T. Calvo & L. Brisson (eds.), Interpreting the Timaeus – Critias. Proceedings of the IV Symposium Platonicum. Selected papers, Academia Verlag. pp. 327-39. 1997.