Director of Undergraduate Studies, Faculty of Philosophy
1993 - 1995
Chair of Philosophy Sub-faculty
1971
Appointed CUF lecturer in Philosophy, University of Oxford
1970
Appointed Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, Somerville College, Oxford
1969
BPhil in philosophy, University of Oxford
1967
B.A. in Literae Humaniores (Class 1) University of Oxford
Somerville College: Senior Tutor 1985-8, Dean 1993-6; Vice-Principal 1996-9
(2014) '
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is Aristotle’s Virtue of Character a Mean? Taking Aristotle at his
Word?' In The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle’s
Nicomachean Ethics,
ed R.Polansky (C.U.P)
(2011) ‘
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and Not-being: Dark Matter in the Sophist’, in Presocratics
and Plato: A Festschrift for Charles Kahn, edd
A.Hermann et alParmenides Publishing
(2010) ‘
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and Division in the Sophist’, in Definition
in Greek Philosophy edited by David Charles, Oxford
2010,
pp151-171
(2008) ‘
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Sophist on statements, predication, and falsehood’,
in The Oxford Handbook of Plato edited
by Gail Fine, Oxford 2008,
pp 437-462
(2007) ‘
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challenge, rational egoism and ordinary morality’, in Pursuing
the Good:Ethics and Metaphysics in Plato’s Republic, edd
D.Cairns,
F-G Herrmann and T.Penner (Edinburgh Leventis Sudies 4), pp42-60
(2006) Review of David Sedley, ‘The Midwife of Platonism’,
Mind 2006 115: 1178-1181
(2006) ‘Did Socrates agree to obey the laws of Athens?’ (on
Plato's Crito) inRemembering Socrates
edd R.L.Judson and V.Karasmanis O.U.P 2006, pp 72-87 . Formerly
published in Philosophy and Power in the Greco-Roman
World edd
E.G.Clark and T.Rajak, OUP 2002.
(1999) ‘Being in the Sophist’:,
in Plato IMetaphysics
and Epistemology ed G.Fine (Oxford Readings in
Philosophy (1999) (revised and expanded version of a 1986 paper)
(1998) ‘How totalitarian is Plato's Republic?’ in Essays
on Plato's Republic, ed Erik Nis Ostenfeld, Aarhus
University Press 1998, pp13 - 27
(1998). ‘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, pp181 - 207
(1997) ‘What is the ‘mean relative to us’ in
Aristotle's Ethics?’ in Phronesis XLII -1
(1997), 77-93
(1994) ‘
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verb ‘to be’ in Greek philosophy’ in Language
(Companions to ancient thought 3) ed. Stephen Everson
(Cambridge 1994) 212-236
