Classics

Held Research Fellowships in Cambridge and Oxford and was Lecturer, then Reader in Philosophy at King's College London, prior to joining the Faculty at Yale in 2006. Has Joint position in Philosophy and Classics. Office in Philosophy (Connecticut Hall).

Areas of Interest: Ancient Philosophy, in particular, ancient metaphysics, epistemology & psychology.

Main publications:

Book:
Plato on Parts and Wholes: the Metaphysics of Structure, Oxford: Clarendon 2002. Paperback edition, Oxford: Clarendon February 2005.

Papers:
'Beware of Imitations: Image Recognition in Plato', forthcoming in New Essays on Plato ed. Fritz-Gregor Hermann, University of Wales Classical Press 2006.
'The Philebus on Pleasure: the good, the bad and the false', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society II, 2003-4, pp. 111-128.
'Plato's Problem of Composition', Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, volume 17, 2002, pp. 1-17.
'Conflicting Values in Plato's Crito', Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 81, 1999, pp. 117-147. Reprinted in R. Kamtekar ed Plato's Euthyphro, Apology and Crito: Critical Essays, Rowman & Littlefield, December 2004, pp. 229-59.
'Quel prix pour la vérité? (Philèbe 64a7-66d3)', La fêlure du plaisir: études sur le philèbe de platon 1. commentaires sous la direction de Monique Dixsaut, Paris: Vrin, 1999, pp. 385-401
Co-authored with Melissa Lane, 'Pyrrhonism and Protagoreanism: Catching Sextus Out?', Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy 2, 1999, pp. 157-172.
'Aristotle Metaphysics H6: a dialectic with Platonism', Phronesis XLI, 3, 1996, pp. 276-304.

Current projects:
Plato's Philebus-projected monograph for CUP series Cambridge Studies in the Dialogues of Plato ed. MM McCabe
Plato on the mind and its relation to its objects-related papers out and in progress focused on Plato's interest in misidentification, in particular the misidentification of likeness for original, with discussion of the Phaedo's theory of learning as recollection; the Republic and the mistake of the lover of sights and sounds; the prisoners' use of language in the cave and the criticisms of mimetic art and sophistic deception in Republic X and Sophist especially.
Platonic metaphysics-entry for Oxford Handbook on Plato ed. Gail Fine, OUP forthcoming