Biography
For first and second years (Prelims and Mods), I teach the following papers:
Introductory Logic
Elements of Deductive Logic
Moral Philosophy
General Philosophy
Early Greek Philosophy
Plato's Meno and Euthyphro
Lucretius' De Rerum Natura IV
For finals, I teach the following papers:
Early Modern Philosophy
Ethics
Theory of Politics
Plato's Republic (in Greek and in translation)
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (in Greek and in translation)
Plato's Theaetetus and Sophist (in Greek)
Aristotle's Physics (in Greek)
Sextus Empiricus' Outlines of Pyrrhonism (in Greek)
latin Philosophy (in Latin)
I work on theories of metaphysics, essence, and explanation in Ancient Greek philosophy - primarily in Plato but also in the Presocratics, Aristotle, and the philosophers of the Hellenistic and Imperial periods.
'Plato's Hippias Major' The Platonic Mind, ed.V.Politis & P.Larsen, forthcoming
'Zeno's Puzzle in Plato's Parmenides' Ancient Philosophy 34, 2014
'Drama, Dogmatism, and the 'Equals' Argument in Plato's Phaedo' Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 44, 2013
'Interpreting Plato's Republic: Knowledge and Belief' Philosophy Compass 5:10, 2010
'Dialectic and Disagreement in the Hippias Major' Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 38, 2010
Interpreting Plato's Republic: Knowledge and Belief Philosophy Compass 5, 2010
Positions
- Lecturer in Philosophy
Subjects
- Philosophy
