Associate Professor of Ancient Greek Philosophy and Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford
2007 - 2015
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer of Ancient Philosophy, Department of Classics and Ancient History, Durham University
2004 - 2007
Henry Lumley Research Fellow, Magdalene College Cambridge
2005
Ph.D. University of Cambridge (Classics)
2000
Laurea University of Bologna (Philosophy)
Monograph
Ancient Self-Refutation: The Logic and History of the Self-Refutation Argument From Democritus to Augustine, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, 414pp.
Articles and book chapters
‘Self-bracketing Pyrrhonism’, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, XVIII (2000), 263-328.
‘L’elenchos di Agatone: Una rilettura di Platone, Simposio, 199c3-201c9’, Dianoia, VI (2001), 39-84.
‘Protagoras Refuted: How Clever is Socrates’ “Most Clever” Argument at Theaetetus171a-c?’, Topoi, XXIII 1 (2004), 3-32.
‘Memoria Aristotelica, Memoria Agostiniana’, in G. A. Lucchetta, U. La Palombara (eds.),Mente, anima e corpo nel mondo antico. Immagini e funzioni, Pescara: Opera Editrice, 2006, 141-160.
‘Liberal Arts and Recollection in Augustine’s Confessions X (ix 16 - xii 19)’, Philosophie Antique, VI (2006) [De Platon aux platoniciens], 107-135.
‘Everything is true, Everything is False: Self-Refutation Arguments from Democritus to Augustine’, Antiqvorvm Philosophia, I (2007), 11-74.
‘Synartēsis crisippea e tesi di Aristotele’, in M. Alessandrelli, M. Nasti De Vincentis (eds.),La logica nel pensiero antico (Atti del I Colloquio, Roma 28-29 Novembre 2000), Napoli: Bibliopolis, 2009, 105-163.
‘How Dialectical Was Stoic Dialectic?’, in A. Nightingale, D. Sedley (eds.), Ancient Models of Mind: Studies in Human and Divine Rationality, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, 153-179.
‘Ancient Philosophy of Language’ (co-authored with E. V. Di Lascio), in D. G. Fara, G. Russell (eds.), Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Language, 2012, 811-826.
‘Aristotle on Begging the Question Between Dialectic, Logic and Epistemology’, Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy, XV (2012), 90-121.
‘Self-refutation and Dialectic in Plato and Aristotle’, in J. L. Fink (ed.), Dialectic and Dialogue: The Development of Dialectic from Plato to Aristotle, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012, 27-61.
‘Democritus and Epicurus on Sensible Qualities in Plutarch, Against Colotes 3-9’, Aitia. Regards sur la culture hellénistique au XXIe siècle, III (2013) [Open access at http://aitia.revues.org/622 ].
‘Early Pyrrhonism: Pyrrho to Aenesidemus’, in F. Sheffield, J. Warren (eds.), Routledge Companion to Ancient Philosophy, 2013, 496-510.
‘Aristotle on the Non-Cause Fallacy’, History and Philosophy of Logic (first published online 8 October 2015), 37 (2016), 9-32.
‘Aristote sur la pétition de principe’, for J.-B. Gourinat and J. Lemaire (eds.), Logique and dialectique dans l’Antiquité, Paris: Vrin, 2016, 259-302.
‘Skeptical Ethics’, in C. Bobonich (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Ethics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
‘Aenesidemus’, in D. Machuca, B. Reed (eds.) Skepticism: From Antiquity to the Present, London and Oxford: Bloomsbury, 2017.
‘Aporia and inquiry in Ancient Pyrrhonism’, in V. Politis, G. Karamanolis (eds.), The Aporetic Tradition in Ancient Philosophy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.
‘Dialectic in the Hellenistic Academy’, for T. Bénatouïl and K. Ierodiakonou (eds.), Proceedings of the 13th Symposium Hellenisticum on Dialectic in Hellenistic Philosophy, forthcoming.
