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Dr James Warren

Dr James Warren is a Reader in Ancient Philosophy.  He is also a 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).

He is on sabbatical leave for the 2012-13 academic year, working on a book provisionally entitled The Pleasures of Reason in Plato, Aristotle, and the Hellenistic Hedonists (CUP).

With Frisbee Sheffield, he is editing the forthcoming Routledge Companion to Ancient Philosophy (Routledge).

For teaching material for recent courses click on the picture of Socrates. (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:

“Gods and men in Xenophanes” in V. Harte and M. Lane eds. Politieia in Greek and Roman Philosophy (Festschrift for Malcolm Schofield), Cambridge, CUP: 294–312

“Foreword” to W. K. C. Guthrie, The Greek Philosophers: from Thales to Aristotle, Routledge

“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: 

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

b. “Coming-to-be and passing-away” in K. Algra and K. Ierodiakonou eds. Sextus Empiricus and ancient physics.   Proceedings of the XI Symposium Hellenisticum, Cambridge

c. “Hellenistic philosophy: places, institutions, character” in F. Sheffield and J. Warren eds. The Routledge Companion to Ancient Philosophy, London (English version of 2011d)

d. “Cyrenaics” in F. Sheffield and J. Warren eds. The Routledge Companion to Ancient Philosophy, London

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

f. “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

g. “Memory, anticipation, pleasure” in F. Leigh ed. Moral Psychology in Ancient Thought (the 2011 UCL Keeling Colloquium)

h. “The Symmetry Problem” in Stephen Luper ed. The Cambridge Companion to Life and Death, Cambridge, CUP

i. “Precursors of Pyrrhonism: DL  9.67–73” in K. Vogt ed. Pyrrhonian Skepticism in Diogenes Laertius

j. “Plato” in S. Golob and J. Timmermann eds. The Cambridge History of Moral Philosophy, Cambridge, CUP

k. “Comparing lives in Plato Laws V” in Phronesis

l. “Death” in R. Fletcher and W. H. Shearin eds. The Oxford Handbook of Roman Philosophy, Oxford, OUP

 

Current research interests:

Pleasure and pain, memory and anticipation in ancient philosophy.

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

He has supervised graduate students working on:

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

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

He also writes a blog: kenodoxia.