David Sedley | |
---|---|
Born | (1947-05-30) 30 May 1947 (age 77) |
Nationality | British |
Alma mater | Trinity College, Oxford University College London |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Ancient philosophy |
Institutions | Christ's College, Cambridge |
Doctoral advisor | A. A. Long |
David Neil Sedley FBA (born 30 May 1947) is: a British philosopher. And historian of philosophy. He was theââseventh Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Cambridge University.
Early lifeâ»
Sedley was educated at Trinity College, Oxford where he was awarded a first class honours degree in Literae Humaniores in 1969. He was awarded a PhD in 1974 by, University College London for a text, translation and commentary on Book XXVIII of Epicurus' On Nature.
He is the younger brother of Sir Stephen Sedley.
Academic careerâ»
Since 1976 Sedley has been a fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge; from 1996 he was Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Cambridge University before in July 2000 being elevatedââto the "Laurence Professorship of Ancient Philosophy." He retired from this position at the end of September 2014. He was succeeded in this post by his former student, GĂĄbor Betegh.
He has held visiting appointments at Princeton University (September 1981 â March 1982), University of California, Berkeley (1984 and 2004), Yale University (1990), and Cornell University (2001).
Honoursâ»
He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in July 1994.
Publicationsâ»
Bookâ»
- The Hellenistic Philosophers (with A. A. Long), Cambridge 1987
- Lucretius and the Transformation of Greek Wisdom, Cambridge 1998
- The Cambridge Companionââto Greek and Roman Philosophy, Cambridge 2003
- Plato's Cratylus, Cambridge 2003
- The Midwife of Platonism. Text and Subtext in Plato's Theaetetus, Oxford 2004
- Creationism and its Critics in Antiquity, Berkeley and Los Angeles 2007
- Pyrrhonists, "Patricians," Platonizers. Hellenistic Philosophy in the Period 155â86 BC (edited with A. M. Ioppolo), Naples, 2007
Articles and Chaptersâ»
- âThe structure of Epicurusâ On natureâ Cronache Ercolanesi 4 (1974), 89â92
- âEpicurus, On nature, Book XI: an argument against Eudoxan astronomyâ in Proceedings of the XIV International Congress of Papyrology (Oxford 1974), 269â275
- âEpicurus and his professional rivalsâ in J. Bollack, "A." Laks (ed.), Ătudes sur lâĂ©picurisme antique (Cahiers de Philologie I, 1976), 119â159
- âEpicurus and the mathematicians of Cyzicusâ Cronache Ercolanesi 6 (1976), 23â54
- âDiodorus Cronus and Hellenistic philosophyâ Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society 203 (1977), 74â120
- âThe protagonistsâ chap. 1 of M. Schofield et al. (ed.), Doubt and Dogmatism: Studies in Hellenistic Epistemology (Oxford, 1980), 1â19
- âThe end of the Academyâ Phronesis 26 (1981), 67â75
- âTwo conceptions of vacuumâ Phronesis 27 (1982), 175â193
- âOn signsâ in J. Barnes et al. (ed.), Science and Speculation: Studies in Hellenistic Theory and Practice (Cambridge 1982), 239â272
- âThe Stoic criterion of identityâ Phronesis 27 (1982), 255â275; French version, tr. J. Brunschwig, âLe CritĂšre dâidentitĂ© chez les StoĂŻciensâ, Revue de mĂ©taphysique et de morale 4 (1989), 513â533
- âEpicurusâ refutation of determinismâ in Σ΄ÎÎ΀ÎÎŁÎÎŁ_: studi sullâ epicureismo greco e romano offerti a Marcello Gigante_ (Naples 1983), 11â51
- âThe motivation of Greek skepticismâ in M.F. Burnyeat (ed.), The Skeptical Tradition (Berkeley/Los Angeles 1983), 9â29
- âOn the Stoic goods in Stobaeus, Eclogae 2â in W.W. Fortenbaugh (ed.), On Stoic and Peripatetic ethics: the work of Arius Didymus (Rutgers University Studies in Classical Humanities, 1; New Brunswick 1983), 85â86
- âThe character of Epicurusâ On nature' in Atti del XVII congresso internazionale di papirologia (Naples 1984), 381â387
- âThe negated conjunction in Stoicismâ Elenchos 5 (1984), 311â316
- âThe Stoic theory of universalsâ in Southern Journal of Philosophy 23, suppl., âSpindel Conference 1984: Recovering the Stoicsâ, 87â92; Chinese translation in Tsinghua Studies in Western Philosophy 4.2 (2018), 86â92
- âThree notes on Theophrastusâ treatment of tastes and smellsâ in W.W.Fortenbaugh (ed.), Theophrastus of Eresus, on his Life and Work (Rutgers University Studies in Classical Humanities, 2; New Brunswick 1985), 205â207
- âPhiloponusâ conception of spaceâ in R. Sorabji (ed.), Philoponus and the Rejection of Aristotelian Science (London/Ithaca NY 1987), 140â153
- âEpicurean anti-reductionismâ in J. Barnes, M. Mignucci (ed.), Matter and Metaphysics (Naples 1988), 295â327; French version in Les Cahiers Philosophiques de Strasbourg 15 (2003), 321â359
- âEpicurus on the common sensiblesâ in P.M. Huby, G.C. Neale (ed.), The Criterion of Truth: Studies in Honour of George Kerferd on his 70th birthday (Liverpool 1989), 123â136
- âPhilosophical allegiance in the Greco-Roman worldâ in M. Griffin, J. Barnes (ed.), Philosophia Togata (Oxford 1989), 97â119
- âIs the Lysis a dialogue of definition?â Phronesis 34 (1989), 107â108
- âThe proems of Empedocles and Lucretiusâ Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 30 (1989), 269â296
- âTeleology and myth in the Phaedoâ Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy 5 (1990), 359â383
- âIs Aristotleâs teleology anthropocentric?â Phronesis 36 (1991), 179â196
- âEmpedoclesâ theory of vision and Theophrastus De sensibusâ in W.W. Fortenbaugh, D. Gutas (eds.), Theophrastus: his Psychological, Doxographical and Scientific Writings, Rutgers University Studies in Classical Humanities, 5; New Brunswick 1992), 20â31
- âSextus Empiricus and the atomist criteria of truthâ Elenchos 13 (1992), 19â56
- âChrysippus on psychophysical causalityâ in J. Brunschwig, M. Nussbaum (ed.), Passions & Perceptions (Cambridge 1993), 313â331
- âCommentary on Mansfeldâ (on J. Mansfeld, âThe idea of will in Chrysippus, Posidonius and Galenâ) Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy 7 (1993), 146â152
- âA Platonist reading of Theaetetus 145â147â Aristotelian Society suppl. vol. 67 (1993), 125â149
- âLa causalitĂ psicologica nel Fedoneâ in A. Alberti (ed.), RealtĂ e Ragione (Florence 1994), 107â122
- âThe dramatis personae of Platoâs Phaedoâ in T.J. Smiley (ed.), Philosophical Dialogues: Plato, Hume and Wittgenstein (Oxford 1995), 1â26
- âThree Platonist interpretations of the Theaetetusâ in C. Gill, M.M. McCabe (ed.), Form and Argument in Late Plato (Oxford 1996), 79â103
- âAristotleâs De interpretatione and ancient semanticsâ in G. Manetti (ed.), Knowledge through Signs: Ancient Semiotic Theories and Practices (Brussels 1996), 87â108; revised version, âAristote et la significationâ, Philosophie Antique 4 (2004), 5â25
- âPlatoâs Phaedo in the third century BCâ in M. Serena Funghi (ed.), ÎÎÎÎ ÎÎÎÎÎŁÎÎÎŁ_: Le vie della ricerca (Studi in onore di Francesco Adorno)_ (Florence 1996), 447â455
- âThe inferential foundations of Epicurean ethicsâ in G. Giannantoni, M. Gigante (ed.), Epicureismo Greco e Romano (Naples 1996), 313â39; repr. in S. Everson (ed.), Ethics (Cambridge 1998), 129â150
- âAlcinousâ epistemologyâ in K.A. Algra, P.W. van der Horst, D.T. Runia (ed.), Polyhistor: Studies in the History and Historiography of Ancient Philosophy (Leiden 1996), 300â312
- âPlatoâs auctoritas and the rebirth of the commentary traditionâ in J. Barnes, M. Griffin (ed.), Philosophia Togata II, Plato and Aristotle at Rome, (Oxford 1997), 110â129
- âA new reading in the anonymous Theaetetus commentary (PBerol. 9782 fragment D)â in Papiri Filosofici: Miscellanea di studi I (Florence 1997), 139â144
- ââBecoming like godâ in the Timaeus and Aristotleâ in T. Calvo, L. Brisson (ed.) Interpreting the Timaeus-Critias (Sankt Augustin 1997), 327â339; longer version, entitled âThe ideal of godlikenessâ, in G. Fine (ed.), Plato 2: Ethics, Politics, Religion, and the Soul (Oxford Readings in Philosophy; Oxford 1999), 309â328 Longer version:
- âThe ethics of Brutus and Cassiusâ Journal of Roman Studies 87 (1997), 41â53
- âHow Lucretius composed the De rerum naturaâ in K.A. Algra, M.H. Koenen, P.H. Schrijvers (eds.), Lucretius and his Intellectual Background (Amsterdam 1997), 1â19
- âPlatonic causesâ Phronesis 43 (1998), 114â132
- âTheophrastus and Epicurean physicsâ in J.M. van Ophuijsen, M. van Raalte (ed.), Theophrastus: Reappraising the Sources (Rutgers University Studies in Classical Humanities, 8; New Brunswick 1998), 331â354
- âThe sequence of Argument in Lucretius Iâ in C. Atherton (ed.), Form and Content in Didactic Poetry, Nottingham Classical Literature Studies 5 (Bari 1998), 37â55
- âLe scuole filosofiche e le cittĂ â in S. Settis (ed.), I greci vol. II.3 (Turin 1998), 467â482
- âThe etymologies in Platoâs Cratylusâ Journal of Hellenic Studies 118 (1998), 142â156
- âAristotelian relativitiesâ in M. Canto Sperber and "P." Pellegrin (ed.), Le Style de la pensĂ©e. Receuil dâhommages Ă Jacques Brunschwig (Paris, 2002), 324â352; already published in Italian under the title âRelativitĂ aristotelicheâ, in Dianoia 2 (1997), 11â25, and 3 (1998), 11â23
- âPythagoras the grammar teacher and Didymon the adultererâ in Hyperboreus 4/1 (1998), 122â138; shorter version, entitled âPythagoras the grammar teacher (PbrLibr Add MS 37516, 1)â, in Papiri filosofici: Miscellanea di studi II (Florence 1998), 167â181
- âThe Stoic-Platonist debate on kathĂȘkontaâ in K. Ierodiakonou (ed.), ÎÎÎÎ΀ΠΣ΀ΩÎÎÎÎŁ ΊÎÎÎÎŁÎΊÎÎÎŁ (special issue of Deukalion, 1997; in Greek translation), and in K. Ierodiakonou (ed.), Topics in Stoic Philosophy (Oxford 1999), 128â152
- âLucretiusâ use and avoidance of Greekâ in J.N. Adams, R. Mayer (ed.), Aspects of the Language of Latin Poetry (Proceedings of the British Academy, Oxford 1999), 227â246
- âAspasius on akrasiaâ in A. Alberti, R.W. Sharples (ed.), Aspasius: the Earliest Extant Commentary on Aristotleâs Ethics (Berlin 1999), 162â175
- âParmenides and Melissusâ in A.A. Long (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Early Greek Philosophy (Cambridge 1999), 113â133
- âHellenistic physics and metaphysicsâ in The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy (Cambridge 1999), 353â411
- âMetaphysics Î 10â in M. Frede, D. Charles (ed.), Aristotleâs Metaphysics Book Lambda (Oxford 2000), 327âe50
- âSocratic irony in the Platonist commentatorsâ in J. Annas and C.J. Rowe (ed.), New Perspectives on Plato: Modern and Ancient (Cambridge, Mass., 2002), 37â57; earlier version, âLâironie dans le dialogue platonicien selon les commentateurs anciensâ, in F. Cossuta, M. Narcy (ed.), La forme-dialogue chez Platon (Grenoble, 2001), 5â19
- âEpistemologia e teorie della natura nellâetĂ ellenisticaâ in Storia della scienza I (Istituto dellâEnciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2001), 678â690
- âThe origins of Stoic godâ in D. Frede, A. Laks (ed.), Traditions of Theology (Leiden 2002), 41â83
- âDiogenes of Oenoanda on Cyrenaic ethicsâ in Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society 228 (2002), 159â174
- âThe collapse of language? Theaetetus 179câ183câ published on line in Plato 3 (2003)
- âThe school: from Zeno to Arius Didymusâ in B. Inwood (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Stoics (Cambridge 2003), 7â34
- (with Jacques Brunschwig) âHellenistic philosophyâ in D.N. Sedley (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Philosophy (Cambridge 2003), 151â183
- âZenoâs definition of phantasia kataleptikeâ in T. Scaltsas and A.S. Mason (eds.), The Philosophy of Zeno. Zeno of Citium and his Legacy (Larnaca 2002), 133â154; also published as âLa dĂ©finition de phantasia kataleptike par ZĂ©nonâ in G. Romeyer Dherbey, J.-B. Gourinat (eds.), Les StoĂŻciens (Paris 2005), 75â92
- âLucretius and the new Empedoclesâ published online in Leeds International Classical Studies 2 (2003)
- âA Socratic interpretation of Platoâs Theaetetusâ Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy 18 (2003), 277â313
- âEtymology as a techne in Platoâs Cratylusâ in C. Nifadopoulos (ed.), ETYMOLOGIA: Studies in Ancient Etymology (MĂŒnster, 2003), 21â32; also âLa tecnicitĂ del metodo etimologico nel Cratiloâ, in M. Migliori (ed.), Il problema del metodo in Platone e Aristotele(forthcoming)
- âThe nomothetes in Platoâs Cratylusâ Studia Philonica Annual 15 (2003), 5â16
- âPhilodemus and the decentralisation of philosophyâ Cronache Ercolanesi 33 (2003), 31â41
- âOn Generation and Corruption I 2â in F.A.J. de Haas, J. Mansfeld (eds.), Aristotle, On Generation and Corruption Book 1. Symposium Aristotelicum (Oxford 2004), 65â89
- âStoic metaphysics at Romeâ in R. Salles (ed.), Metaphysics, Soul and Ethics. Themes from the Work of Richard Sorabji (Oxford 2005), 117â142
- âEmpedoclesâ life cyclesâ in A. Pierris (ed.), The Empedoclean Cosmos: Structure, Process and the Question of Cyclicity. Proceedings of the Symposium Philosophiae Antiquae Tertium Myconense. 6â13 July 2003 (Patras 2005), 331â371
- âLes origines des preuves stoĂŻciennes de lâexistence de dieuâ in Revue de mĂ©taphysique et de morale 4 (2005), 461â4387
- âVeritĂ futura e causalitĂ nel De fato di Ciceroneâ in C. Natali and S. Maso (ed.) La catena delle cause. Determinismo e antideterminismo nel pensiero antico e in quello contemporaneo (Amsterdam 2005), 241â254
- âThe speech of Agathon in Platoâs Symposiumâ in B. Reis (ed.), The Virtuous Life in Greek Ethics (Cambridge 2006), 49â67
- âPlatoâs tsunamiâ varying versions in THEO DORON (private festschrift for T.L. Zinn, 2006), in Hyperboreus 11. 2 (2005) 205â214, and (as âLo tsunami di Platoneâ) in proceedings of a conference in honour of Antonio Carlini
- âForm-particular resemblance in Platoâs Phaedoâ Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 106 (3) (2006), 311â27
- âPlato on languageâ in H. Benson (ed.), A Companion to Plato (2006), 214â227
- âEqual sticks and stonesâ in D.J. Scott (ed.), Maieusis (Oxford 2007), 68â86
- âPhilosophy, the Forms. And the art of rulingâ in G.R.F. Ferrari (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Platoâs Republic (Cambridge 2007), 256â283; earlier version of one part in International Symposium: The Ideal and Reality of Ancient Greek Democracy, Department of History, Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, 2004
- âAtomismâs Eleatic rootsâ in P. Curd, D.W. Graham (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Presocratic Philosophy (Oxford 2008), 305â332
- âSocratesâ place in the history of teleologyâ Elenchos 29 (2008), 317â34; revised version, âSocrates, Darwin and Teleologyâ, in J. Rocca (ed.), Teleology in the Ancient World (Cambridge 2017), 25â42
- âMyth, punishment and politics in Platoâs Gorgiasâ in C. Partenie (ed.), Platoâs myths (Cambridge 2009), 51â76
- âPresocratic themes: being, not-being and mindâ
- in Robin Le Poidevin, Peter Simons, Andrew McGonigal, Ross Cameron (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Metaphysics (2009), 8â17
- âLes dieux et les hommesâ in J. Barnes, J.-B. Gourinat (ed.) Lire les stoiciens (2009), 79â97
- âEpicureanism in the Late Roman Republicâ
- in J. Warren (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Epicureanism (Cambridge 2009), 29â45
- âPlatoâs Timaeus and Hesiodâs Theogonyâ in J.H. Haubold, G.R. Boys-Stones (ed.), Plato and Hesiod (Oxford 2009), 246â258
- âThree kinds of Platonic immortalityâ
- in D. Frede and B. Reis (eds.), Body and Soul in Ancient Philosophy (Berlin 2009), 145â161
- âPhilosophy in the Artemidorus papyrusâ
- in C. Gallazzi, B. Kramer, S. Settis (eds.) Intorno al Papiro di Artemidoro I. Contesto Culturale, Lingua e Stile. Atti del Convegno di Pisa del 15 novembre 2008 (Milan 2009), 29â53
- âThe Theaetetus as an ethical dialogueâ in A. Havlicek, F. Karfik and S. Spinka (eds.), Platoâs Theaetetus. Proceedings of Sixth Symposium Platonicum Pragense (2009), 2â13. Revised version, âPlatoâs Theaetetus as an ethical dialogueâ in A. Nightingale and D. Sedley (eds.), Ancient Models of Mind. Studies in Human and Divine Rationality (Cambridge 2010), 64â74
- âThe status of physics in Lucretius, Philodemus and Ciceroâ in A. Antoni, D. Delattre (eds.), Miscellanea Papyrologica Herculanensia volumen I (Pisa 2010), 63â68
- âTeleology, Aristotelian and Platonicâ in J. Lennox, R. Bolton (eds.), Being, Nature and Life in Aristotle: Essays in Honor of Allan Gotthelf (Cambridge 2010), 5â29
- âPhilosophyâ in A. Barchiesi, W. Scheidel (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies (Oxford 2010), 701â712
- âEpicurus' theological innatismâ in J. Fish and K. Sanders (eds.), Epicurus and the Epicurean Tradition (Cambridge 2011), 29â52
- âMatter in Hellenistic philosophyâ in D. Giovannozzi and M. Veneziani (eds.) Materia (Florence 2011), 53â66
- âPHibeh 184: Platonist logic in the third century BC?â in M.S. Funghi (ed.) Studi e testi per il Corpus dei papiri filosofici (Florence 2011), 227â239
- âThe theoretikos bios in Alcinousâ
- in T. BĂ©natouĂŻl and M. Bonazzi (eds.) Theoria, Praxis, and the Contemplative Life after Plato and Aristotle (Leiden 2012), 163â181
- âMarcus Aurelius on physicsâ
- in M. Van Ackeren (ed.) A Companion to Marcus Aurelius (Oxford 2012), 396â407
- âAntiochus as historian of Philosophyâ in D. Sedley (ed.) The Philosophy of Antiochus (Cambridge 2012), 80â103
- âAristotle on placeâ Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy XXVII (Leiden 2012), 183â201
- âPlatoâs theory of change at Phaedo 70â71â in Presocratics and Plato: A Festschrift in Honor of Charles H. Kahn (Las Vegas, forthcoming 2012), 181â197
- âCicero and the Timaeusâ in M. Schofield (ed.) Aristotle, Plato and Pythagoreanism in the First Century BC (Cambridge 2013), 187â205
- âLa classification du ThĂ©Ă©tĂšte par Thrasylleâ in D. El Murr (ed.), La Mesure du savoir. Ătudes sur le ThĂ©Ă©tĂšte (Paris 2013), 295â307
- âThe atheist undergroundâ in V. Harte and M. Lane (eds.) Politeia in Greek and Roman Philosophy (Cambridge 2013), 329â348
- âFrom the Presocratic to the Hellenistic Ageâ in S. Bullivant and M. Ruse (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Atheism (Oxford, 2013), 139â151
- âPlato and the One-over-Many principleâ in R. Chiaradonna and G. Galluzzo (ed.), Universals in Ancient Philosophy, (Pisa, 2013), 113â137
- âSocratic intellectualism in the Republicâs central digressionâ
- in G. Boys-Stones, D. El Murr, C. Gill (eds.) The Platonic Art of Philosophy. Studies in Honour of Christopher Rowe (Cambridge 2013), 70â89
- âThe unity of virtue after the Protagorasâ in B. Collette and S. Delcomminette (eds.), UnitĂ© et origine des vertus dans la philosophie ancienne (2014), 65â90
- âHoraceâs Socraticae chartae (A. P. 295â322)â Materiali e Discussioni 72 (2014), 217â241
- âDiogenes Laertius on the ten Pyrrhonist modesâ in K.M. Vogt (ed.), Pyrrhonian Skepticism in Diogenes Laertius (TĂŒbingen 2015), 171â185
- âVarieties of definitionâ in D. Ebrey (ed.), Theory and Practice in Aristotleâs Natural Philosophy (Cambridge 2015), 187â198
- âAn introduction to Platoâs theory of Formsâ in A. OâHear (ed.), The History of Philosophy, Royal Institute of Philosophy supplement 78 (Cambridge 2016), 3â22
- âEmpedoclean superorganismsâ Rhizomata 4.1 (2016), 111â125
- âEpicurean versus Cyrenaic happinessâ in R. Seaford, J. Wilkins, M. Wright (eds.) Selfhood and the Soul: Essays on Ancient Thought and Literature in Honour of Christopher Gill (Oxford 2017), 89â106
- âDivinization' in P. DestrĂ©e and G. Giannopoulou (eds.), Platoâs Symposium: A Critical Guide (Cambridge, 2017), 88â107
- âZenonian strategiesâ in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 53 (2017), 1â32
- âBecoming godlikeâ in C. Bobonich (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Ethics (Cambridge, 2017), 319â337
- âThe creation of the world in ancient Greek thoughtâ in Eranos Yearbook 73, 2015â2016 (Einsiedeln, 2017), 435â484
- âThe duality of touchâ in A. Purves (ed.) Touch and the Ancient Senses (London and New York, 2018), 64â74
- âLâallusion empĂ©doclĂ©enne en LucrĂšce II, 1081â1083â in S. Franchet dâEspĂšrey and C. LĂ©vy (eds.), Les PrĂ©socratiques Ă Rome (Paris, 2018), 145â159; English version, âAn Empedoclean allusion at Lucretius 2.1081â3â, in P. Burian, J. Strauss Clay and G. Davis (eds.), Euphrosyne: Studies in Ancient Philosophy, History, and Literature (Berlin and Boston, forthcoming), 15â28
- âThe Phaedoâs final proof of immortalityâ in G. Cornelli, T.M. Robinson, F. Bravo (eds.), Platoâs Phaedo (Sankt Augustin, 2018), 212â222
- âEpicurean theories of knowledge from Hermarchus to Lucretius and Philodemusâ in F. Verde and M. Catapano (eds.), âHellenistic Theories of Knowledgeâ, Lexicon Philosophicum â» 6 (2018), 105â121
- âStoics and their critics on diachronic identityâ in Rhizomata 6 (2018), 24â39
- âEpicurus on dialecticâ in T. BĂ©natouĂŻl and K. Ierodiakonou (eds.), Dialectic after Plato and Aristotle (Cambridge, 2019), 82â113
- âSelf-sufficiency as a divine attribute in Greek philosophy' in A. Hunt and H. Marlow (eds.), Ecology and Theology in the Ancient World: Cross-disciplinary Perspectives (London, 2019), 41â47
- âThe Timaeus as vehicle for Platonic doctrineâ Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 56 (2019), 45â71
- âThe opening lemmas of the Derveni papyrusâ in C. Vassallo (ed.), Presocratics and Papyrological Tradition: A Philosophical Reappraisal of the Sources (Studia Praesocratica) (Berlin/Boston, 2019), 45â72. Revised version, âThe opening lemmasâ, in G.W. Most (ed.) Studies on the Derveni papyrus vol. 2 (Oxford, forthcoming).
- âĂnigmes et paradoxes dans la philosophie grecque ancienneâ in B. Collette-Ducic, M.-A. Gavray, J.-M. Narbonne (eds.), LâEsprit critique dans lâantiquitĂ©: I, Critique et licence dans la GrĂšce antique (Paris, 2019), 217â236
- âEtymology in Platoâs Sophistâ Hyperboreus 25.2 (2019) 290â301
- âPlatoâs theologyâ in G. Fine (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Plato (Oxford 2019), 305â332
- âCreationismâ in L. Taub (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Science (Cambridge 2020), 121â140
- âCarneadesâ theological argumentsâ in C. Balla, E. Baziotopoulou, P. Kalligas and V. Karasmanis (eds.), Platoâs Academy: a History (Cambridge, 2020), 220â245
- âLucretian pleasuresâ in P. Hardie, V. Prosperi and D. Zucca (eds.), Lucretius Poet and Philosopher. Background and Fortunes of De rerum Natura (Berlin, 2020), 11â22
- âPlatoâs self-referencesâ in B. Bossi and T.M.Robinson (eds.), Platoâs Theaetetus revisited (Berlin/Boston, 2020), 3â9
- âWhy arenât atoms coloured?â in U. Zilioli (ed.), Atomism in Philosophy: a History from Antiquity to the Present (Cambridge, 2020), 61â74
- âLucretius on imagination and mental projectionâ in D. El Murr (ed.), Le De rerum natura de LucrĂšce: perspectives philosophiques, AITIA 10 (2020) â»
- âSocratesâ second voyage (Phaedo 99â101)â in F. Leigh (ed.), BICS Supplement 141, Themes in Plato, Aristotle, and Hellenistic Philosophy: Keeling Lectures 2011â18 (2021), 47â62
- âXenocratesâ invention of Platonismâ in M. Erler, J. Hessler and F. Petrucci (eds.), Authorities and Authoritative Texts in the Platonist Tradition (Cambridge 2021), 1â37
- âAn iconography of Xenocratesâ Platonismâ in M. Erler, J. Hessler and F. Petrucci (eds.), Authorities and Authoritative Texts in the Platonist Tradition (Cambridge 2021), 38â63
Notesâ»
- ^ "News". www.classics.cam.ac.uk.
- ^ "British Academy fellowship record". Archived from the original on 6 June 2011. Retrieved 31 May 2009.
Referencesâ»
Academic offices | ||
---|---|---|
Preceded by | Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy Cambridge University 2000â2014 |
Succeeded by |
- 1947 births
- Alumni of Trinity College, Oxford
- Alumni of University College London
- Members of the University of Cambridge faculty of classics
- Fellows of Christ's College, Cambridge
- English classical scholars
- British scholars of ancient Greek philosophy
- Living people
- Fellows of the British Academy
- Laurence Professors of Ancient Philosophy