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Dr James Warren

Dr James Warren is a University Senior Lecturer in Classics and Fellow and Director of Studies in Philosophy at Corpus Christi College. 

Contact:

Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, CB2 1RH 
Email: jiw1001@cam.ac.uk
Tel. 01223 (3)39996 (College)

Click here for his full CV and list of publications (in pdf format; updated Jan 2012).

For teaching material for current courses click here (Raven password protected).

Major publications: 

Epicurus and Democritean Ethics: an Archaeology of Ataraxia (C.U.P. 2002);

Facing Death: Epicurus and his Critics (O.U.P. 2004);

Presocratics (Acumen and Univ. California Press 2007). 

The Cambridge Companion to Epicureanism (C.U.P. 2009)  

Some recent articles:

“What god didn’t know: Sextus Empiricus AM 9.162–6” in D. Machuca ed. New essays on ancient Pyrrhonism, Brill, 41-68. [pdf]

“Socrates and the Patients: Republic IX, 583C-585A” in Phronesis 56 (2011) 113-37 [online here] 

“Pleasure, Plutarch's Non posse, and Plato's Republic” in Classical Quarterly 61 (2011): 278-93 [online here]

“Plato on the pleasures and pains of knowing” in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 39 (2010) 1-32 [pdf offprint here]

“Removing fear” in J. Warren ed. (2009) The Cambridge companion to Epicureanism, CUP: 234-48 [online here]

“Aristotle on Speusippus on Eudoxus on pleasure” in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 36: 249-81 [pdf offprint here]

 “Anaxagoras on perception, pleasure and pain” in Oxford studies in Ancient Philosophy 33 (2007): 19-54 

“Diogenes Laërtius, biographer of philosophy” in J. König and T. J. G. Whitmarsh eds. (2007) Ordering knowledge in the Roman empire, CUP: 133-149

Forthcoming:

“Coming-to-be and passing-away” in K. Algra and K. Ierodiakonou eds. Sextus Empiricus and ancient physics, Cambridge

“The harm of death in Cicero’s first Tusculan Disputation” in J. Stacey Taylor ed. The metaphysics and ethics of death, Oxford.

“Epicurean pleasure in Cicero’s De Finibus” in J. Annas and G. Betegh eds. Proceedings of the XII Symposium Hellenisticum

“Gods and men in Xenophanes” in Politieia (Festschrift for Malcolm Schofield), CUP

“Epicurus and the unity of the virtues” in B. Collette-Dučić and S. Delcomminette eds. Unité et origine des vertus dans la philosophie de l’Antiquité, Ousia/Vrin

“Symmetry arguments” in S. Luper ed. The Cambridge Companion to Life and Death, CUP

"Memory, anticipation, pleasure" in F. Leigh ed. Proceedings of the 2011 Keeling Colloquium

With Frisbee Sheffield, he is editing the forthcoming Routledge Companion to Ancient Philosophy (Routledge).  He is contributing the article on the Cyrenaics. 

Current research interests:

Pleasure and pain, memory and anticipation in ancient philosophy; he is writing a book provisionally entitled The pleasures of reason (under contract to CUP)

Plato, Philebus and related issues in Protagoras and Laws
Cyrenaics
Xenophanes
Memory and anticipation

Recent graduate research topics supervised:

Cicero, Democritus, Epicurus, Heraclitus, Musonius Rufus, Philolaus, Plato, Seneca, Diogenes of Apollonia, Anaximander, Cleanthes' Hymn to Zeus.  

Other Faculty positions: 

Faculty website co-ordinator
B Caucus Secretary
Member of the Faculty Board of Philosophy

From 2002-9 he was Joint editor of the Cambridge Classical Journal.

He also writes a blog: kenodoxia.