Education
Ph.D. 1994, St. Edmund’s and Jesus Colleges, Cambridge

Areas of Interest

Ancient Philosophy and Metaphysics

Selected Publications

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

'The Receptacle and the Primary Bodies: Something from Nothing?', forthcoming in volume of papers from conference "Plato's Timaeus: Life, the Universe, Everything-and More: New Work on Plato", title as yet unknown, ed. Richard Mohr & Kirk Sanders, Parmenides Publishing.

'Reply to Matt Evans' "Plato's Anti-Hedonism"', forthcoming in Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy

'Platonic Metaphysics', forthcoming in Oxford Handbook to Plato ed. Gail Fine Oxford: OUP

'Language in the Cave', Maieusis: Essays in Ancient Philosophy in Honour of Myles Burnyeat, ed. Dominic Scott, Oxford 2007, pp. 195-215.

'Beware of Imitations: Image Recognition in Plato', New Essays on Plato ed. Fritz-Gregor Hermann, Swansea: The Classical Press of Wales 2006, pp. 21-42.

'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.

Works in Progress

The Life of Protarchus' Choosing: Philebus 20b-22c'

'Republic X and the role of the audience in art'

'What's a particular and what makes it so? Some thoughts, mainly about Aristotle.'

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