Faculty of Classics - University of Cambridge

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Professor David Sedley 

Professor David Sedley is Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy and a Fellow of Christ's College.

Contact:

Post: Christ's College, Cambridge CB2 3BU
Email: dns1@cam.ac.uk
Tel: 01223 (3)34910 (College) or 07989 749805

Major publications:

Creationism and its Critics in Antiquity, 2007 (Berkeley)
The Midwife of Platonism: Text and Subtext in Plato’s Theaetetus, 2004 (Oxford)
Plato’s Cratylus, 2003 (Cambridge)
(ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Philosophy, 2003 (Cambridge)
Lucretius and the Transformation of Greek Wisdom, 1998 (Cambridge)
(with A.A. Long) The Hellenistic Philosophers, 1987 (Cambridge), 2 vols.
(with G. Bastianini) edition of Anonymous Commentary on Plato’s Theaetetus, in Corpus dei papiri filosofici greci e latini, vol. III, 1995 (Florence), 227-562
‘Epicurus, On nature, Book XXVIII’, 1973, Cronache Ercolanesi 3, 5-83

Current research interests:

1st century BC philosophy; Plato's Phaedo

Recent graduate research topics supervised:

Plato, Scepticism, Stoicism, atomism, Lucretius, Presocratic epistemology, Peripatetic ethics

Other Faculty positions:

Mentor to Postdocs and JRFs.