Mrs Lesley Brown

University Lecturer (CUF) in Philosophy
Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, Somerville College

Ancient Greek philosophy, especially Plato. Work in progress: translation and commentary on Plato's Sophist.

1967	B.A. in Literae Humaniores (Class 1) University of Oxford
1969	BPhil in philosophy, University of Oxford
1970	Appointed Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, Somerville College, Oxford
1971	Appointed CUF lecturer in Philosophy, University of Oxford
1993-5	Chair of Philosophy Sub-faculty
2002-4	Director of Undergraduate Studies, Faculty of Philosophy

Somerville College: Senior Tutor 1985-8, Dean 1993-6; Vice-Principal 1996-9

‘Theaetetus: Knowledge and Definition; Parts, Elements and Priority’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society Vol 94 (1994) 229-242
‘The verb ‘to be’ in Greek philosophy’ in Language (Companions to ancient thought 3) ed. Stephen Everson ( Cambridge 1994) 212-236
‘What is the ‘mean relative to us’ in Aristotle's Ethics?’ in Phronesis XLII -1 (1997), 77-93
‘Innovation and Continuity: The Battle of Gods and Giants in Plato's Sophist 245-249’ in Method in Ancient Philosophy ed J. Gentzler, Oxford, Clarendon Press 1998
‘How totalitarian is Plato's Republic?’ in Essays on Plato's Republic, ed Erik Nis Ostenfeld, Aarhus University Press 1998
‘Being in the Sophist’: expanded version of a 1986 paper, published in Plato I ed G.Fine Oxford Readings in Philosophy (1999).
‘Did Socrates agree to obey the laws of Athens?’ (on Plato's Crito) in Philosophy and Power in the Greco-Roman World edd E.G.Clark and T.Rajak, OUP 2002. Also published under same title in Remembering Socrates edd R.L.Judson and V.Karasmanis O.U.P 2006
Review of David Sedley, ‘The Midwife of Platonism’, Mind 2006 115: 1178-1181

‘Glaucon’s challenge, rational egoism and ordinary morality’, in The Good and the Form of the Good, edd T.Penner and D.Cairns (Procedings of Leventis conference)

‘Definition and Division in the Sophist’, in a volume on Ancient Definition edited by David Charles