Lesley Brown

Emeritus Fellow, Somerville College
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2002 - 2004 | 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
Publications
- (2019) ‘Aristotle (with the help of Plato) against the claim that morality is ‘only by convention’’ in Ancient Philosophy Today: DIALOGOI 1.1 (2019): 18–37
- (2019) ‘The Sophist on Statements, Predication and Falsehood’, ch 13 of the Oxford Handbook to Plato, ed Gail Fine, second edition
- (2018) ‘Rethinking Agreement in Plato’ in Virtue, Happiness, Knowledge Themes from the work of Gail Fine and Terence Irwin ed David Brink, Susan Sauvé Meyer and Christopher Shields, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 18–33
- (2018) ‘Aporia in Plato’s Theaetetus and Sophist’ in The Aporetic Tradition in Ancient Philosophy ed George Karamanolis and Vasilis Politis, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 91–111
- (2014) Plato, Theaetetus, Oxford World’s Classics, Introduction and notes by Lesley Brown, translation by John McDowell
- (2014) 'Why 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) ‘Negation and Not-being: Dark Matter in the Sophist’, in Presocratics and Plato: A Festschrift for Charles Kahn, edd
A.Hermann et alParmenides Publishing - (2010) ‘Definition and Division in the Sophist’, in Definition in Greek Philosophy edited by David Charles, Oxford 2010, pp151–171
- (2008) ‘The Sophist on statements, predication, and falsehood’, in The Oxford Handbook of Plato edited by Gail Fine, Oxford 2008, pp
437–462 - (2007) ‘Glaucon’s 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 I Metaphysics 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) ‘The verb ‘to be’ in Greek philosophy’ in Language (Companions to ancient thought 3) ed. Stephen Everson (Cambridge 1994) 212–236