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Selected Publications

Books Authored

Stoicism (Chesham: Acumen / Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006) [Further Information]

The Art of Living: The Stoics on the Nature and Function of Philosophy (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003 / London: Duckworth, 2009) [Further Information]

Books Edited

Justus Lipsius: On Constancy, Edited with an Introduction, Notes, and Bibliography (Exeter: Bristol Phoenix Press 2006) [Further Information]

Articles and Chapters

[Note that preprints for many of these can be found at my Academia.edu pages]

In press

'Stoics Against Stoics in Cudworth's A Treatise of Freewill', British Journal for the History of Philosophy, in press [Read preprint]

'The Stoic Tradition', in K. Pollmann, W. Otten, eds, The Oxford Guide to the Historical Reception of Augustine (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), in press [Further information]

'Seneca's Philosophical Predecessors and Contemporaries', in G. Damschen, A. Heil, eds, Brill’s Companion to Seneca (Leiden: Brill, 2012), in press [Further information]

'The Meditations and the Ancient Art of Living', in M. van Ackeren, ed., A Companion to Marcus Aurelius (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), in press [Further information]

'Marcus Aurelius in Contemporary Philosophy', in M. van Ackeren, ed., A Companion to Marcus Aurelius (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), in press [Further information]

Published

'Is God a Mindless Vegetable? Cudworth on Stoic Theology', Intellectual History Review 21/2 (2011), 121-33 [Access online]

'Stoic Ontology and Plato's Sophist', in V. Harte, M.M. McCabe, R.W. Sharples, A. Sheppard, eds, Aristotle and the Stoics Reading Plato, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Suppl. 107 (2010), 185-203 [Further information]

'Epictetus', in A. Grafton, G. Most, S. Settis, eds, The Classical Tradition (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2010), 319-20 [Further information]

'Marcus Aurelius: The Philosopher', in M. Gagarin, ed., The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome, 7 vols (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), vol. 4, 345-6 [Further information]

'Justus Lipsius's De Constantia: A Stoic Spiritual Exercise', Poetics Today 28/3 (2007), 339-62 [Access online]

'Stoic Practical Philosophy in the Imperial Period', in R. Sorabji, R.W. Sharples, eds, Greek and Roman Philosophy, 100 BC-200 AD, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Suppl. 94/1 (2007), 115-40 [Further information / Review at BMCR]

'Techne peri ton bion. Zur stoischen Konzeption von Kunst und Leben', in W. Kersting, C. Langbehn, eds, Kritik der Lebenskunst (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2007), 91-117 [Further Information]

'Stoic Cosmopolitanism and Zeno's Republic', History of Political Thought 28/1 (2007), 1-29 [Access online]

'Gilles Deleuze and the History of Philosophy', British Journal for the History of Philosophy 15/3 (2007), 551-60 [Access online]

'An Ethics of the Event: Deleuze’s Stoicism', Angelaki 11/3 (2006), 157-71 [Access online]

'The Aristotelian Commentators: A Bibliographical Guide', in P. Adamson, H. Baltussen, M. Stone, eds, Philosophy, Science, and Exegesis in Greek, Arabic, and Latin Commentaries, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Suppl. 83/1 (2004), 239-68 [Further Information / Review at BMCR]

'Thomas Gataker', in R.B. Todd, ed., The Dictionary of British Classicists, 3 vols (Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum, 2004), vol. 2, pp. 359-61 [Further information]

'Simon the Shoemaker and the Problem of Socrates', Classical Philology 98/3 (2003), 207-16 [Access online]

Reviews

Review of B. Inwood, L. P. Gerson, The Stoics Reader, in Journal of Hellenic Studies 130 (2010), 280-81 [Access Online]

Review of W. Desmond, Cynics, in Classical Review 60/1 (2010), 56-8 [Access Online]

Review of H. Baltussen, Philosophy and Exegesis in Simplicius, for Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2009)

Review of W. O. Stephens, Stoic Ethics: Epictetus and Happiness as Freedom, in Classical Review 59/1 (2009), 79-80 [Access Online]

Review of C. Gill, The Structured Self in Hellenistic and Roman Thought, in British Journal of the History of Philosophy 16/4 (2008), 811-14 [Access Online]

Review of T. Brennan, The Stoic Life, in Philosophical Books 49/2 (2008), 145-7 [Access Online]

Review of W. Detel, Foucault and Classical Antiquity, in Philosophie antique 5 (2005), 248-50

Review of M.-O. Goulet-Cazé, Les Kynica du stoicisme, in Classical Review 55/1 (2005), 69-70 [Access Online]

Review of B. Inwood, ed., The Cambridge Companion to the Stoics, in Journal of the History of Philosophy 42/3 (2004), 337-38 [Access Online]

Review of K. Ierodiakonou, ed., Byzantine Philosophy and its Ancient Sources, in British Journal for the History of Philosophy 12/2 (2004), 341-44

Review of P. Hadot, What is Ancient Philosophy?, in Classical Review 54/1 (2004), 69-70 [Access Online]

Review of R. M. van den Berg, Proclus' Hymns, in Classical Review 53/1 (2003), 85-86 [Access Online]

Review of A. A. Long, Epictetus: A Stoic and Socratic Guide to Life, in Classical Review 53/1 (2003), 65-67 [Access Online]

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