Selected Papers

The pdf-files are drafts or uncorrected proofs. If you plan to refer to them, please consult the official versions, or me. Comments are very welcome.

I Shall Do What I Did: Stoic Views on Action, forthcoming in Ricardo Salles and Pierre Destree (eds.), Up To Us (pdf)

On Michael Frede’s A Free Will (Sather Lectures), forthcoming from Classical Philology (pdf)

Appearances and Assent: Skeptical Belief Reconsidered, forthcoming from Classical Quarterly (pdf)

Plato on Madness and the Good Life, forthcoming in William Harris (ed.), Mental Illness in Antiquity (pdf)

The Aims of Sceptical Investigation, forthcoming in Diego Machuca (ed.), Pyrrhonism in Ancient, Modern, and Contemporary Philosophy (pdf)

The Hellenistic Academy, forthcoming in Frisbee Sheffield and James Warren (eds.), Routledge Companion to Ancient Philosophy (pdf)

The Good of Others: A Stoic Reading of Plato, forthcoming in Plato in the Stoa, ed. Alex Long, Cambridge University Press (pdf)

Ancient Skepticism, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2010)

Why Pleasure Gains Fifth Rank: Against the Anti-Hedonist Interpretation of the Philebus, St. Augustine 2010, 250-255 (pdf)

Belief and Investigation in Plato’s Republic, Plato 9 (2009)

Sons of the Earth: Are the Stoics Metaphysical Brutes? Phronesis 54 (2009) 136-154 (pdf)

Review of Barbara Herman, Moral Literacy, Ethics (2008), 726-730

Duties to Others: Demands and Limits, in Monika Betzler (ed.), Kant’s Doctrine of Virtue, Berlin 2008, 219-243 (pdf)

The Good is Benefit: On the Stoic Definition of the Good, Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, Leiden 2008, 155-174 (pdf)

Seneca, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2007)

Anger, Present Injustice, and Future Revenge in Seneca’s De Ira, in K. Volk and W. Gareth (eds.), New Developments in Seneca Studies, Leiden 2006, 57-74 (pdf)

Skeptische Suche und das Verstehen von Begriffen, in Christof Rapp and Tim Wagner (eds.), Wissen und Bildung in der antiken Philosophie, Stuttgart 2006, 325-339 (pdf)

Die frühe stoische Theorie des Werts, in Ch. Schröer and F.-J. Bormann (eds.), Abwägende Vernunft, Berlin 2004, 61-77 (pdf)