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The Spirited Part and its ObjectIn Rachel Barney, Tad Brennan & Charles Brittain (eds.), Plato and the Divided Self, Cambridge University Press. 2012.
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3Socrates and EpictetusIn Sara Ahbel-Rappe & Rachana Kamtekar (eds.), A Companion to Socrates, Wiley-blackwell. 2006.This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction The Elenchus Differences of Structure Differences of Object Ironies Epictetan and Socratic Concluding Comparisons.
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9The 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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8Greek Philosophers of the Hellenistic AgeCambridge University Press. 1993.Greek Philosophers of the Hellenistic Age examines an important but frequently neglected group of philosophers writing after Aristotle between the third and first centuries B.C. The work of a distinguished intellectual historian, this book is based on an erudite reading of a vast number of primary sources: the Greek and Latin writings of the philosophers, and the fragments, paraphrases, and testimonies from their lost works. Kristeller explores the thought of Epicurus; Zenon and Cleanthes, the f…Read more
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9Cephalus, patêr tou logouPhronesis 67 (4): 408-420. 2022.I argue that Cephalus introduces the argumentative paradigm of the entire Republic, the Challenge of Glaucon and Adeimantus, through his comments on wealth and his story about Themistocles.
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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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4A 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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133The Implicit Refutation of CritiasPhronesis 57 (3): 240-250. 2012.AtCharmides163, Critias attempts to extricate himself from refutation by proposing a Prodicean distinction betweenpraxisandpoiēsis. I argue that this distinction leads him further into contradictions.
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94SORABJI, R. Emotion and Peace of MindPhilosophical Books 43 (3): 169-220. 2002.A longish (12 page) discussion of Richard Sorabji's excellent book, with a further discussion of what it means for a theory of emotions to be a cognitive theory.
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10Stoic 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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11Review. Aristotle: On the Heavens I and II. S LeggattThe Classical Review 47 (2): 282-284. 1997.
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133Epicurus 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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2Simplicius: on Epictetus' Handbook 1-26 (edited book)Duckworth & Cornell. 2002.Originally published by Duckworth in 2002.
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7Arius, 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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7Stoic Souls in Stoic CorpsesIn Dorothea Frede & Burkhard Reis (eds.), Body and Soul in Ancient Philosophy, De Gruyter. pp. 389-408. 2009.
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180Fate 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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2Criterion and Appearance in Sextus Empiricus: the Scope of Sceptical Doubt, the Status of Sceptical BeliefBulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 39 151-169. 1994.
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7Plato and the Divided Self (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2012.Plato's account of the tripartite soul is a memorable feature of dialogues like the Republic, Phaedrus and Timaeus: it is one of his most famous and influential yet least understood theories. It presents human nature as both essentially multiple and diverse - and yet somehow also one - divided into a fully human 'rational' part, a lion-like 'spirited part' and an 'appetitive' part likened to a many-headed beast. How these parts interact, how exactly each shapes our agency and how they are affect…Read more
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88Pyrrho 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.
Princeton University
PhD, 1993
Ithaca, New York, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
History of Western Philosophy |