Professor of Philosophy of Ancient Philosophy, University of Oxford
Official Student (i.e. Tutorial Fellow) of Christ Church, Oxford

 

Research Interests
Ancient Philosophy: I work principally on Aristotle’s metaphysics and natural philosophy and on Plato.

I am the General Editor of the Clarendon Aristotle Series and of Oxford Aristotle Studies.

Books

2019  Aristotle: Metaphysics Λ: Translated with an Introduction and Commentary (Clarendon Aristotle Series: Oxford: Clarendon Press)
forthcoming   Plato’s Euthyphro, for Cambridge Studies in the Dialogues of Plato (Cambridge University Press)


Edited Anthologies
1991  Lindsay Judson (ed.), Aristotle’s Physics: A Collection of Essays (Oxford: Clarendon Press)
2006  Lindsay Judson and Vassilis Karasmanis (eds), Remembering Socrates: Philosophical Essays (Oxford: Clarendon Press)

Articles and book chapters
1983  ‘Eternity and Necessity in De Caelo I.12’, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 1, 217-55
1987  ‘God or Nature?’, in Richard Sorabji (ed.), Philoponus and the Rejection of Aristotelian Science (London: Duckworth)
1987  ‘Russell on Memory’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 88, 65-82
1988  ‘La Bataille Navale d’Aujourd’hui: De Interpretatione 9’, Revue de Philosophie Ancienne 6, 5-37
1991  ‘Chance and “Always or for the Most Part” in Aristotle’, in Judson (ed.), Aristotle’s Physics: A Collection of Essays
1994  ‘Heavenly Motion and the Unmoved Mover’, in Mary Louise Gill and James Lennox (eds), Self-Motion from Aristotle to Newton (Princeton: University Press)
1997  ‘Aristotle on Fair Exchange’, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 15, 147-75
1998  ‘What Can Happen When You Eat Pungent Food’, in Nikolaos Avgelis and Filimon Peonidis (eds), Aristotle on Logic, Language and Science (Thessaloniki: Sakkoulas Publications)
2000  ‘Formlessness and the Priority of Form: Metaphysics Zeta 7-9 and Lambda 3’, in David Charles and Michael Frede (eds), Aristotle’s Metaphysics Lambda: Symposium Aristotelicum (Oxford: Clarendon Press)
2005  ‘Aristotelian Teleology’, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 29, 341-66
2009  ‘John Lloyd Ackrill’ (biographical memoir), Proceedings of the British Academy 161, 3-16
2010  ‘Carried Away in the Euthyphro’, in David Charles (ed.), Definition in Greek Philosophy (Oxford University Press)  
2015  ‘Aristotle’s Astrophysics’, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 49, 151-92
2016  ‘Aristotle, Metaphysics Theta 8 1050b6-28’, Phronesis 61, 142-59
2017  ‘Hypotheses in Plato’s Meno’, Philosophical Inquiry 42, 29-39
2018  ‘Physics I.5’, in Diana Quarantotto (ed.), Aristotle's Physics I: A Systematic Exploration (Cambridge University Press), 130-53
2018  ‘First Philosophy in Metaphysics Λ’, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 54, 227-27
2019  ‘The Meno’, in Gail Fine (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Plato, 2nd edition (Oxford University Press)
2019  ‘Aristotle and Crossing the Boundaries between the Sciences’, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie
2023  ‘What is Aristotle’s Metaphysics about?’, Phronesis 68, 169-92
2024 ‘Aristotelian Matter and "The Underlier"’, in David Bronstein, Thomas Kjeller Johansen and Michael Peramatzis (eds), Aristotelian Metaphysics: Essays in Honour of David Charles (Oxford University Press)

Other recent publications

2021 ‘Aristotle’s Physics’, in Oxford Bibliographies in Classics, Ed. Ruth Scodel (New York: Oxford University Press: online)
2023 Letter to John Locke: William Samuell to Locke, 28 November 1674 (Bodl., MS Locke b. 1 p. 20), no. 297A in Mark Goldie (ed.), The Correspondence of John Locke, Vol. 9, Supplement (Oxford University Press)