Susanne Bobzien

Professor of Philosophy
302 CT Hall
203.432.1689
susanne.bobzien@yale.edu
Susanne Bobzien Web site

Areas of Interests

Ancient philosophy (particularly logic and language, determinism and freedom, Hellenistic and later ancient philosophy), Philosophy of Language, Kant

Education

DPhil, 1993, Oxford University

Current or Recent Courses Taught

Determinism, Freedom, and Moral Responsibility in Epicurean Philosophy
Alcinous: Handbook of Platonism
Kant: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals and Critique of Practical Reason
The Skepticism of Sextus Empiricus
Introduction to Formal Logic
Plato: Republic
Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics

Selected Publications

Books

Die stoische Modallogik (Wuerzburg 1986)
Alexander of Aphrodisias: On Aristotle Prior Analytics I.1–7, with J.Barnes, Kevin Flannery, K.Ierodiakonou (London 1991)
Determinism and Freedom in Stoic Philosophy (Oxford 1998)

Articles

‘Die Kategorien der Freiheit’ in H. Oberer/G. Seel (eds) Kant: Analysen–Probleme–Kritik (Wuerzburg 1988) 193–220
‘Chrysippus’ Modal Logic and its Relation to Philo and Diodorus’ in K. Doering/T. Ebert (eds) Dialektiker und Stoiker (Stuttgart 1993) 63–84
‘Stoic Syllogistic’, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 1996, 133–92
‘Logic’ in Oxford Classical Dictionary, 3rd edition, 1996, 880–1
‘Stoic Conceptions of Freedom and their Relation to Ethics’ in R.Sorabji (ed), Aristotle and After, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, London, Supplement 68, 1997, 71–89
‘Stoic Hypotheses and Hypothetical Argument’, Phronesis 1997, 299–312
‘Kants Kategorien der praktischen Vernunft’ in H.Oberer (ed), Kant: Analysen – Probleme – Kritik vol.3 (Wuerzburg 1997) 75–9
‘The Inadvertent Conception and Late Birth of the Free–Will Problem’, Phronesis 43, 1998, 133–75
‘Freiheit’ in H.Cancik/H.Schneider (eds), Der Neue Pauly. Enzyklopädie der Antike. Altertum 4 (Stuttgart/ Weimar 1998) 652–653
‘Chrysippus’ Theory of Causes’ in K.Ierodiakonou (ed), Topics in Stoic Philosophy, (Oxford 1999) 196–242
‘ "Megaric" Logic’ in K. Algra/J. Barnes/J. Mansfeld/M. Schofield (eds), The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy (Cambridge 1999) 83–92
‘Stoic Logic’ in K.Algra/J.Barnes/J.Mansfeld/M.Schofield (eds), The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy (Cambridge 1999) 92–157
‘Wholly Hypothetical Syllogisms’, Phronesis 45, 2000, 87–137
‘Did Epicurus Discover the Free–Will Problem?’ Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 19, winter 2000, 287–337
‘Why the Order of the Figures of the Hypothetical Syllogisms was Changed’, Classical Quarterly 50.1, 2000, 247–51
‘A Greek Parallel to Boethius’ De Hypotheticis Syllogismis’, Mnemosyne 2002, 285–30
‘Chrysippus and the Epistemic Theory of Vagueness’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society vol. 102, 2002, 217–238
‘Propositional Logic in Ammonius’ in H. Linneweber–Lammerskitten and G. Mohr (eds): Interpretation und Argument, (Wuerzburg 2002)
Chapter ’Stoic Logic’ in Brad Inwood (ed), Cambridge Companion to Stoic Philosophy, (Cambridge 2002) forthcoming
‘Pre–Stoic Hypothetical Syllogistic in Galen’ in V. Nutton (ed) Proceedings of the Symposium ’Galen beyond Kuehn’, BICS supplement volume, 2002, 57–72, forthcoming
‘The Development of modus ponens in Antiquity’, Phronesis, 2002, forthcoming

Works in Progress