University of the West of England

Faculty Member, Philosophy

Other Affiliations: University of Oxford, Wolfson College

Senior Lecturer

About

I am a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of the West of England, in Bristol, and a member of Wolfson College, Oxford.

Before joining UWE in 2007 I worked as Assistant Editor for the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle project at King's College London and held a Junior Research Fellowship at Wolfson College, Oxford.

I have broad research interests in the history of philosophy, from antiquity to the seventeenth century. That's very broad, so more specifically most of my work to date has been on Stoicism and the reception of Stoicism in the 16th and 17th centuries.

In particular I have written about the Stoic idea of philosophy as an art of living, inevitably focusing on the late Stoics Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius.

During my Junior Research Fellowship at Wolfson I worked on the reception of Stoicism in early modern philosophy, focusing on Justus Lipsius and Ralph Cudworth. Pieces of this work are slowly being published.

I also have strong interests in the late ancient commentators, inspired by finding Simplicius' commentary on Epictetus, and consolidated by working as Assistant Editor for the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle project, where I edited translations of texts by Alexander of Aphrodisias, Aspasius, Philoponus, Proclus, and Simplicius.

More recently I have been exploring medieval and renaissance philosophy, teaching a course on medieval philosophy, and developing research interests renaissance philosophy (in particular the renaissance Aristotelian Pietro Pomponazzi). I also convene the UWE History of Philosophy Research Seminar, in which we are reading Marsilio Ficino's commentary on Plato's Parmenides.

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