Greek philosophy, particularly ethics, moral psychology, aesthetics, politics and the reception of ancient Greek philosophy, particularly in the work of Hannah Arendt.
Monographs and Edited Volumes
2013 (Co-editor) The Routledge Companion to Ancient Philosophy
2008 (Co-editor) Plato’s Symposium, introduction and critical notes for an edition in the Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy Series
2006 Plato’s Symposium: The Ethics of Desire, Oxford University Press
2006 (Co-editor) Plato’s Symposium: Issues in Interpretation and Reception, Harvard University Press
Articles
Forthcoming: ‘Love in the City: Eros and Philia in Plato’s Laws’, Plato on the Emotions, ed. O. Renault
Forthcoming: ‘The Greek Philosophers against Arendt’, Journal of the History of Political Thought
Forthcoming: ‘Desire, Friendship and Community in the Gorgias’ Plato’s Gorgias: A Critical Guide Cambridge, ed. C. Shaw
Forthcoming: ‘Plato and Aristotle on Love and Friendship’, Oxford Handbook of Love, ed. R. Hanley
2017 ‘Eros and the Pursuit of Form in Plato’s Symposium’, in Plato’s Symposium: A Critical Guide, Cambridge, ed. P. Destree
2017 ‘Platonic Piety: Beyond the Euthyphro’, in eds. Anders Klostergaard Petersen & George van Kooten, Religio-Philosophical Discourses in the Mediterranean World: From Plato, through Jesus, to Late Antiquity (Ancient Philosophy & Religion 1), Leiden/Boston: Brill
2017 ‘Love and Friendship in Plato’, in The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Ethics, ed. C. Bobonich
2017 “Why there is no such thing as a Soul Mate”, The Critique, online Philosophy Journal
2013 ‘Plato on Virtue and the Good life’ in The Routledge Companion to Ancient Philosophy, eds. J. Warren and F. Sheffield
2012 ‘The Symposium and Platonic Ethics: Plato, Vlastos, and a misguided debate’, Phronesis vol. 57 (2) 117-141
2012 ‘Eros before and after tri-partition’, in (ed.) Brittain, Barney and Brennan, Plato and the Divided Soul, Cambridge
2012 ‘Symposium 201d1-204c6’, in (ed.) C. Horn, Plato’s Symposium
2011 ‘Beyond eros: Plato on Friendship in the Phaedrus’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society vol. 111 (2) 251-273
2010 ‘Aristotle and eros’, in (ed.) MM. McCabe, Harte, Sharples and Sheppard, Aristotle Reading Plato, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies
2006 ‘The Role of the Earlier Speeches in Plato’s Symposium: Plato’s Endoxic Method?’, in (ed.) Sheffield, Nails and Lesher, Plato’s
Symposium: Issues in Interpretation and Reception, Harvard University Press
2001 ‘Alcibiades’ Speech: A Satyric Drama’ Greece and Rome, 48 no.2
2001 ‘Psychic Pregnancy and Platonic Epistemology’, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 20
Work In Progress
Book length study of Plato’s Phaedrus
‘Philosophers as Dependent Rational Animals: Philia and Return to the Cave in Plato’s Republic’.
“Socrates in “The House of Justice”: Arendt’s Banality of Evil as a Socratic Concept”
‘Defending Plato’s Alcibiades’ in ed. T. Duff, Alcibiades: His Ancient Reception
‘Towards a Platonic Aesthetic?: Plato and Conceptual Art’