Alan van den Arend

ALI Postdoctoral Associate

Publications

"Speaking of Language" -- Cornell's Language Resource Center Podcast S11.E2 (2023)
"Something Old, Something New: Marrying Early Modern Latin Pedagogy and Second Language Acquisition (SLA) Theory" Teaching Classical Languages 10.1 (2018): 1-32.

Gail Judith Fine

Professor Emerita

Publications

academic article
- Meno’s Paradox and the Sisyphus. Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy. 28:113-146. 2013
- Aristotle on Knowledge. Elenchos. 54:121-156. 2010
- Aristotle’s Two Worlds: Posterior Analytics 1.33. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society. 110:323-346. 2010
- Signification, Essence, and Meno’s Paradox. Phronesis. 55:125-152. 2010
- Descartes and Ancient Skepticism: Reheated Cabbage?. Philosophical Review. 109:195-234.2000
- Sceptical Dogmata: Outlines of Pyrrhonism. Methexis. 13. 2000
- Knowledge and Logos in the Theaetetus. Philosophical Review. 88:366-397. 1979
book
- The Possibility of Inquiry: Meno’s Paradox from Socrates to Sextus. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2014
- On Ideas: Aristotle's Criticism of Plato's Theory of Forms. Oxford ; New York: Clarendon Press.1993
chapter
- Concepts and Inquiry: Sextus and the Epicureans. Episteme, Etc. Ed. Morison, B. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 90-114. 2011
- Aristotle's Reply to the Aporêma in the Meno. Aristotle and the Stoics Reading Plato. Ed. McCabe, M. Bulletin of the Classical Institute. 45-72. 2010
- Sceptical Inquiry. Definition in Ancient Philosophy. Ed. Charles, D. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 493-525. 2010
- Knowledge and Belief in Republic V-VII. Epistemology. 1990
- Inquiry in the Meno. The Cambridge Companion to Plato.

Charles Brittain

Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy and Humane Letters

Publications

Books
- Philo of Larissa. The last of the Academic sceptics. Oxford, 2001
- Cicero: On Academic Scepticism. Hackett. 2006
Edited Books
- Simplicius On Epictetus Handbook 1-26. London & Ithaca, 2002 &
- Simplicius On Epictetus Handbook 27-53. London & Ithaca, 2002, trans. with Tad Brennan, for the series The Greek commentators on Aristotle.
- Plato: The Divided Self, edited with T. Brennan & R. Barney, Cambridge, 2012

Chapters
- 'No place for a Platonist soul in 5th Century Gaul? The case of Mamertus Claudianus', R. Mathisen & D. Shanzer (ed.s), Society and Culture in Late Antique Gaul. Revisiting the Sources, Aldershot, 2001, 239-62.
- 'Arcesilaus', The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (on line), sub-ed. J. Cooper. 2004; http://plato.stanford.edu/.
- ‘Common Sense. Concepts, definition and meaning in and out of the Stoa.’ Language and Learning. Proceedings of the Symposium Hellenisticum 2001 (ed. D. Frede & B. Inwood); 2005, 165-209.
- 'Philo of Larissa', The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (on line), sub-ed. J. Cooper; 2006. http://plato.stanford.edu/
- 'Middle Platonists on Academic scepticism', in R. Sharples & R. Sorabji (ed.) Greek & Roman Philosophy 100 BC – 200 AD, London, 2007, vol. II. 297-315.
- 'Plato and Platonism', in G. Fine (ed.), Oxford Handbook on Plato, Oxford, 2008, 931-69.
- 'Posidonius on divinatory dreams', in J. Allen, E. Emilsson, W. Mann & B. Morison, (ed.) OSAP XL (2011), Essays in Memory of Michael Frede, 213-36.
- 'Augustine as a reader of Cicero', in R. Taylor et al. (ed.), Tolle Lege. Essays on Augustine and on Medieval Philosophy in Honor of Roland J. Teske SJ, (Marquette, 2012) 81-112.
- 'Antiochus’ epistemology', in D. Sedley (ed.), The Philosophy of Antiochus (Cambridge, 2012), 104-30.
- 'Intellectual self-knowledge in Augustine', in E. Bermon & G. O’Daly (ed.), Le De Trinitate de saint Augustin : exégèse, logique et noétique. Actes du colloque international de Bordeaux, 16-19 juin 2010. (Bordeaux, 2012.3), 321-39.
- 'The compulsions of Stoic assent', in M. Lee & M. Schiefsky (ed.), From Refutation to Assent: Strategies of Argument in Greek Philosophy (Oxford, 2014). 332-355.
- ‘Cicero’s Sceptical Method: the example of the De finibus’, in G. Betegh & J. Annas (edd.), Cicero’s De Finibus: Philosophical Approaches (Cambridge, 2016) 12-39.
- ‘Alexander on the first oikeion’, in T. Engberg-Pedersen (ed.), From Stoicism to Platonism (Cambridge, 2017) 322-47.
- ‘Deinos (wicked good) at interpretation (Protagoras 334-48)’, in V. Harte and R. Woolf (eds), Rereading Ancient Philosophy: Old Chestnuts and Sacred Cows (Cambridge, 2018) 32-59.
- ‘Ciceronian dialogue’, with Peter Osorio, for J. Atkins & T. Benatouil (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Cicero’s Philosophy (2021) 25-42.
Academic articles
- 'The New Academy’s Appeals to the Presocratics', with John Palmer, Phronesis XLVI.1 2001, 38-72.
- 'Non-rational perception in the Stoics and Augustine.' Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy XXII, Summer 2002, 253-308
- 'Attention Deficit in Plotinus and Augustine: Psychological Problems in Christian and Platonist Theories of the Grades of Virtue.' Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, XVIII (2003) 223-63.
- 'Self-knowledge in Cicero and Augustine' (De Trinitate X, 5, 7 – 10, 16), in G. Catapano & B. Cillerai (ed.), Augustine of Hippo’s De Trinitate and its Fortune in Medieval Philosophy, Medioevo XXXVII (2012) 107-36
- 'A Stoic ethics for attention (Seneca, Letter 56)’, Rhizomata 9.2 (2021) 224-46.
Reviews
- The Sceptics, by R. Hankinson, Philosophical Review 106 1997 635-83
- Sextus Empiricus: Against the Ethicists, by R. Bett, Ancient Philosophy 19 1999 178-83.
- Paradosis and Survival, by D. Clay, Phoenix LIII.3-4 1999 379-81.
- Stoic Studies, by A. Long, & Essays in Hellenistic Epistemology and Ethics, by G. Striker, Philosophical Review 109 2000 434-8.
- Lucrèce & les sciences de la vie, by P. Schrijvers, Classical Review, 51.2 2001 247-9.
- Rationality, Rules and Rights, a discussion article on Topics in Stoic Philosophy, edited by K. Ierodiakonou, Apeiron 34.3 2001 247-67.
- Sextus Empiricus and Pyrrhonean Scepticism, by Alan Bailey, Classical Review 53 2003 326-8.
- The Roman Stoics, by G. Reydams-Schils, Notre Dame Philosophical Books 2006; online journal.
- The Irrational Augustine, by C. Conybeare, Rhizai IV.1 (2007) 19-46.

Tad Brennan

Professor

Publications

You will find links to pdfs of the papers below, and to many other of my papers, chapters, reviews, etc., at my Academia.edu website.
academic article
- Essay on Simplicius' Commentary on Epictetus' Encheiridion (co-authored with Charles Brittain)
- Two Modal Theses in the Second Half of Metaphysics Theta.4. Phronesis. 39:160-173. 1994
- Criterion and Appearance in Sextus Empiricus: The Scope of Sceptical Doubt, The Status of Sceptical Belief. Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies. 39:151-169. 1994
- The Text of Anaxagoras Fragment DK 59 B22. The American Journal of Philology . 116:533-537.1995
- Reasonable Impressions in Stoicism. Phronesis. 41:318-334. 1996
- Epicurus on Sex, Marriage, and Children. Classical Philology. 91:346-352. 1996
- Pyrrho on the Criterion . Ancient Philosophy. 18:417-434. 1998
- Reservation in Stoic Ethics. Archiv fur Geschichte der Philosophie. 82:149-177. 2000
book
- The Stoic Life : Emotions, Duties, and Fate . New York : Oxford University Press. 2005
- Ethics and Epistemology in Sextus Empiricus. New York: Garland Publications. 1999
chapters
- Stoic Moral Psychology. The Cambridge Companion to the Stoics. 2003
- The Old Stoic Theory of the Emotions. The Emotions in Hellenistic Philosophy. 1998
- Socrates and Epictetus. A Companion to Socrates.

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