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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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8The 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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26Greek 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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27Cephalus, 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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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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486The 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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283SORABJI, 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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557Pyrrho 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.
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27De Caelo S. Leggatt (ed., tr.): Aristotle: On the Heavens I and II (Classical Texts). Pp. vii + 273. Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1995. £35/$49.95 (Paper, £14.95/$24.00). ISBN: 0-85668-662-X (0-85668-663-8) (review)The Classical Review 47 (02): 282-284. 1997.
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581The Nature of the Spirited Part of the Soul and Its ObjectIn Rachel Barney, Tad Brennan & Charles Brittain (eds.), Plato and the Divided Self, Cambridge University Press. pp. 102--127. 2012.
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61Grammatica triumphans D. L. blank: Sextus empiricus: Against the grammarians. (Clarendon later ancient philosophers). Pp. xlix + 436. Oxford: Clarendon press, 1998. Cased, £55. Isbn: 0-19-824470- (review)The Classical Review 50 (02): 432-. 2000.
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Commentary on Sauve MeyerProceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 20 244-262. 2004.
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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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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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20Book Review. Lucretius and the Transformation of Greek Wisdom by David Sedley (review)Mind 109 (433): 176-79. 2000.
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668The 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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432Casey Perin’s The Demands of ReasonInternational Journal for the Study of Skepticism 3 (4): 283-293. 2013.
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757A 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
Princeton University
PhD, 1993
Ithaca, New York, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
History of Western Philosophy |