Academic Publications

Publications

Journal Articles

'Philosophy as a Way of Life in the Renaissance', Philosophia 51 II (2022), 153-68
‘Revisiting the three topoi in Dissertationes 3.2’, Aitia: Regards sur la culture hellénistique au XXIe siècle 12 (2022), online at https://doi.org/10.4000/aitia.10498
'Renaissance Humanism and Philosophy as a Way of Life', Metaphilosophy 51/2-3 (2020), 226-43 [https://doi.org/10.1111/meta.12409 - open access]
‘The Stoic Tradition’, Elpis: Journal in Philosophical Sciences19 (2018), 7-9 [access online]
'A Disputed Fragment of Epictetus in Marcus Aurelius', Mnemosyne 71 (2018), 331-5 [DOI: 10.1163/1568525X-12342443]
'What is Philosophy as a Way of Life?', Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy 28 (2017), 40-56 [open access online]
'Henry More as Reader of Marcus Aurelius', British Journal for the History of Philosophy 25/5 (2017), 916-31 [DOI: 10.1080/09608788.2017.1306772]
'Shaftesbury, Stoicism, and Philosophy as a Way of Life', Sophia 55/3 (2016), 395-408 [DOI: 10.1007/s11841-015-0483-z]
'Epictetus, Dissertationes 1.18.10', Classical Quarterly 66/1 (2016), 410-13 [DOI: 10.1017/S0009838816000112]
'Pomponazzi contra Averroes on the Intellect', British Journal for the History of Philosophy 24/1 (2016), 45-66 [DOI: 10.1080/09608788.2015.1063979]
'Plato's Apology of Socrates, A Metaphilosophical Text', Philosophy and Literature 38/2 (2014), 433-45 [DOI: 10.1353/phl.2014.0049]
'Stoic Fate in Justus Lipsius's De Constantia and Physiologia Stoicorum', Journal of the History of Philosophy 52/4 (2014), 653-674 [DOI: 10.1353/hph.2014.0076]
'Some Sixteenth-Century Editions of Ancient Philosophical Texts in Wolfson College Library', The Bodleian Library Record 26/1 (2013), 94-102 [preprint]
'Renaissance Philosophy' British Journal for the History of Philosophy 20/6 (2012), 1195-1204 [DOI: 10.1080/09608788.2012.718256]
'Stoics Against Stoics in Cudworth's A Treatise of Freewill', British Journal for the History of Philosophy 20/5 (2012), 935-52 [DOI: 10.1080/09608788.2012.718870]
'Is God a Mindless Vegetable? Cudworth on Stoic Theology', Intellectual History Review 21/2 (2011), 121-33 [DOI: 10.1080/17496977.2011.574339]
'Justus Lipsius's De Constantia: A Stoic Spiritual Exercise', Poetics Today 28/3 (2007), 339-62 [DOI: 10.1215/03335372-2007-001]
'Stoic Cosmopolitanism and Zeno's Republic', History of Political Thought 28/1 (2007), 1-29 [Access online]
'Simon the Shoemaker and the Problem of Socrates', Classical Philology 98/3 (2003), 207-16 [DOI: 10.1086/420717]

Book Chapters

‘Roman Stoicism’, in D. Bailey, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Stoicism (New York: Oxford University Press), in press
‘Scholarship as a Philosophical Way of Life: The Case of Leon Battista Alberti’, in M. Sharpe, ed., Philosophy as a Way of Life, New Research Directions (Leiden: Brill), in press
‘The Early Modern Legacy of the Stoics’, in N. Powers and J. Klein, eds, The Oxford Handbook of Hellenistic Philosophy (New York: Oxford University Press), in press [preprint]
‘Aristotle and Philosophy as a Way of Life’, in M. Faustino and H. Telo, eds, Hadot and Foucault on Ancient Philosophy: Critical Assessments (Leiden: Brill, 2024), 338-58, https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004693524_017
'Marcus Aurelius and the Tradition of Spiritual Exercises', in M. Garani, D. Konstan, and G. Reydams-Schils, eds, The Oxford Handbook of Roman Philosophy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2023), 74-86 [preprint]
‘Marcus Aurelius on Spontaneous Ethical Action’, in F. Buddensiek and S. Odzuck, eds, Praxis - Handeln und Handelnde in antiker Philosophie, Beiträge zur Altertumskunde 397 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023), 371-84
‘Making Progress: Epictetus on Habituation’, in J. Dunham and K. Romdenh-Romluc, eds, Habit and the History of Philosophy (Abingdon: Routledge, 2023), 51-63
‘O que é a filosofia como modo de vida?’, in F. Testa and M. Faustino, eds, Filosofia como Modo de Vida: Ensaios Escolhidos (Coimbra: Edições 70, 2022), 65-88
‘Renaissance Consolations: Philosophical Remedies for Fate and Fortune’, in O. Akopyan, ed., Fate and Fortune in European Thought, ca. 1400-1650 (Leiden: Brill, 2021), 13-36 [preprint]
‘Self or Cosmos: Foucault versus Hadot’, in Marta Faustino and Gianfranco Ferraro, eds, The Late Foucault: Ethical and Political Questions (London: Bloomsbury, 2020), 37-51 [details] [preprint]
‘Indifference versus Affirmation: Michel Foucault on the Stoic Idea of Life as a Test’, in K. Lampe and J. Scholtz, eds, French and Italian Stoicisms (London: Bloomsbury, 2020), 113-25 [preprint]
'Stoicism', in Dana Jalobeanu, Charles T. Wolfe, eds, Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences (Heidelberg: Springer), published online 2020, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20791-9_10-1
'Pomponazzi's Ethics and the Aristotelian Choice of Lives', in R. Bassi ed., Rinascimento Veneto e Rinascimento Europeo - European and Venetian Renaissance (Pisa: ETS, 2019), pp. 179-88 [preprint]
'Socratic Themes in the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius', in C. Moore, ed., Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Socrates (Leiden: Brill, 2019), 293-310 [preprint]
'The Stoics', in T. Angier, ed., The History of Evil in Antiquity (Abingdon: Routledge, [2018 but dated] 2019), 175-86 [preprint]
'Roman Stoic Mindfulness: An Ancient Technology of the Self', in M. Dennis & S. Werkhoven, eds, Ethics and Self-Cultivation: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (Abingdon: Routledge, 2018), 15-29 [preprint]
‘Stoicism’, in M. Sgarbi, ed., Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy (Heidelberg: Springer), published online 2017 [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_239-1]
'Stoische spirituelle Übungen', in G. Ernst, ed., Philosophie als Lebenskunst: Antike Vorbilder, moderne Perspektiven (Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2016), 109-26 [Further Information]
'Introduction', in J . Sellars, ed., The Routledge Handbook of the Stoic Tradition (Abingdon: Routledge, 2016), 1-13
'Seneca's Philosophical Predecessors and Contemporaries', in G. Damschen, A. Heil, eds, Brill’s Companion to Seneca (Leiden: Brill, 2014), 97-112 [DOI: 10.1163/9789004217089_007 | Further information]
'Stoic Tradition', in K. Pollmann et al., eds, The Oxford Guide to the Historical Reception of Augustine, 3 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), vol. 3, 1775-79 [Further information]
'The Meditations and the Ancient Art of Living', in M. van Ackeren, ed., A Companion to Marcus Aurelius (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), 453-64 [DOI: 10.1002/9781118219836.ch29]
'Marcus Aurelius in Contemporary Philosophy', in M. van Ackeren, ed., A Companion to Marcus Aurelius (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), 532-44 [DOI: 10.1002/9781118219836.ch34]
'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 [DOI: 10.1111/j.2041-5370.2011.tb00017.x]
'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]
'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 [DOI: 10.1111/j.2041-5370.2007.tb02420.x]
'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]
'Thomas Gataker', in R.B. Todd, ed., The Dictionary of British Classicists, 3 vols (Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum, 2004), vol. 2, pp. 359-61

Bibliographies

'Epictetus', in D. Clayman, ed., Oxford Bibliographies in Classics (2016): DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780195389661-0216
'Marcus Aurelius', in D. Pritchard, ed., Oxford Bibliographies in Philosophy (2015): DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780195396577-0278
'Ancient Commentators on Aristotle', in D. Clayman, ed., Oxford Bibliographies in Classics (2014): DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780195389661-0158
'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 [DOI: 10.1111/j.2041-5370.2004.tb02305.x]

Reviews

Review of S. Weisser, Eradication ou modération des passions. Histoire de la controverse chez Cicéron, Sénèque et Philon d’Alexandrie, forClassical Review 73/2 (2023), 681-3, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009840X23000264
Review of C. Gill, Learning to Live Naturally: Stoic Ethics and its Modern Significance (2023), online at https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/learning-to-live-naturally-stoic-ethics-and-its-modern-significance/
Review of C. Rovelli, Anaximander, for Times Literary Supplement 6256 (24 February 2023), 20-21
Review of J. P. F. Wynne, Cicero on the Philosophy of Religion, for Religious Studies 58/2 (2022), 468-70, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034412520000219
Review of M. Bourbon, Penser l’individu: Genèse stoïcienne de la subjectivité, for Les Études philosophiques 140 (2022), 147-50, https://doi.org/10.3917/leph.221.0147
Review of B. Inwood and J. Warren, Body and Soul in Hellenistic Philosophy, for Philosophy 97/2 (2022), 263-5, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031819122000055
Review of N. Sherman, Stoic Wisdom: Ancient Lessons for Modern Resilience, for Classical Review 72/2 (2022), first online at https://www.doi.org/10.1017/S0009840X22000282
Review of J. Visnjic, The Invention of Duty: Stoicism as Deontology, for Bryn Mawr Classical Review (July 2021), online at https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2021/2021.07.40/
Review of G. Williams, K. Volk, eds, Roman Reflections, for Journal of Roman Studies 107 (2017), 434-5 [DOI: 10.1017/S007543581700106X]
Review of A. Akasoy, G. Giglioni, eds, Renaissance Averroism and Its Aftermath, for British Journal for the History of Philosophy 23/3 (2015), 583-5 [DOI: 10.1080/09608788.2015.1022131]
Review of J. Christensen, An Essay on the Unity of Stoic Philosophy, for Aestimatio 11 (2014), 138-42 [access online]
Review of J. Cooper, Pursuits of Wisdom, for Mind 123/492 (2014), 1177-1180 [DOI: 10.1093/mind/fzu136]
Review of T. Bénatouïl, Les Stoïciens III: Musonius, Épictète, Marc Aurèle, for Méthexis: Rivista internazionale di filosofia antica 26 (2013), 217-20 [DOI: 10.1163/24680974-90000623]

Review of L. Spruit, Agostino Nifo, De Intellectu, in Journal of the History of Philosophy 51/4 (2013), 680-1 [DOI: 10.1353/hph.2013.0075]
Review of Shaftesbury, Askêmata, for British Journal for the History of Philosophy 21/3 (2013), 613-16 [DOI: 10.1080/09608788.2013.792777]
Review of N. Siniossoglou, Radical Platonism in Byzantium: Illumination and Utopia in Gemistos Plethon, for Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2012) [Access Online]
Review of B. Inwood, L. P. Gerson, The Stoics Reader, in Journal of Hellenic Studies 130 (2010), 280-81 [DOI: 10.1017/S0075426910000947]
Review of W. Desmond, Cynics, in Classical Review 60/1 (2010), 56-8 [DOI: 10.1017/S0009840X09990357]
Review of H. Baltussen, Philosophy and Exegesis in Simplicius, for Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2009) [Access Online]
Review of W. O. Stephens, Stoic Ethics: Epictetus and Happiness as Freedom, in Classical Review 59/1 (2009), 79-80 [DOI: 10.1017/S0009840X08001935]
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 [DOI: 10.1080/09608780802407878]
Review of T. Brennan, The Stoic Life, in Philosophical Books 49/2 (2008), 145-7 [DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0149.2008.459_3.x]
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 [DOI: 10.1093/clrevj/bni041]
Review of B. Inwood, ed., The Cambridge Companion to the Stoics, in Journal of the History of Philosophy 42/3 (2004), 337-38 [DOI: 10.1353/hph.2004.0056]
Review of K. Ierodiakonou, ed., Byzantine Philosophy and its Ancient Sources, in British Journal for the History of Philosophy 12/2 (2004), 341-44 [DOI: 10.1080/09608780410001676520]
Review of P. Hadot, What is Ancient Philosophy?, in Classical Review 54/1 (2004), 69-70 [DOI: 10.1093/cr/54.1.69]
Review of R. M. van den Berg, Proclus' Hymns, in Classical Review 53/1 (2003), 85-86 [DOI: 10.1093/cr/53.1.85]
Review of A. A. Long, Epictetus: A Stoic and Socratic Guide to Life, in Classical Review 53/1 (2003), 65-67 [DOI: 10.1093/cr/53.1.65]