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Dr David Lee

BA Oxf, MA Nott, PhD Bristol

Biography

For first and second years (Prelims and Mods), I teach the following papers:

Logic, Moral Philosophy, General Philosophy, Early Greek Philosophy, Plato's Meno and Euthyphro, Lucretius's De Rerum Natura IV.

For Finals I teach the following papers:

Early Modern Philosophy, Ethics, Theory of Politics, Medieval Philosophy: Aquinas, The Philosophy of Kant, Philosophy of Mathematics, Plato's Republic (in Greek and in translation), Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (in Greek and in translation), Plato on Knowledge, Language and Reality (in Greek and in translation), Aristotle on Nature, Life and Mind (in Greek and in translation), Knowledge and Scepticism in Hellenistic Philosophy (in Greek, Latin, and in translation), and Latin Philosophy (in Latin and in translation)

Selected Publications:

'Plato's Hippias Major' The Platonic Mind, eds. V.Politis & P.Larsen, 2024 Routledge.

'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

Associations