Faculty of Classics - University of Cambridge

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 Dr Shaul Tor

Junior Research Fellow at Jesus College

Contact

Jesus College , Cambridge , CB5 8BL ,

Email: st354@cam.ac.uk

Research Interests

Early Greek epistemology and religion, with a particular interest in Hesiod, Xenophanes, Parmenides, Heraclitus and Empedocles; early Greek philosophy; Plutarch’s reception of early Greek philosophers; Hellenistic scepticism.

Monograph

Mortal and Divine in Early Greek Epistemology (under contract with Cambridge University Press).

Articles

“Sextus Empiricus on Xenophanes' Scepticism”, forthcoming in International Journal for the Study of Skepticism 2 (2012), 1-22.

“Belief and practice in Xenophanes’ criticism of traditional religion”, forthcoming in R.T. Anderson (ed.), Belief and its Alternatives in Greek and Roman Religion (Cambridge University Press).

“Mortal and Divine in Xenophanes' Epistemology”, forthcoming in G. Betegh (ed.), Theology and Philosophy in the Presocratic Age.

“Argument and Signification in Sextus Empiricus: Against the Mathematicians VIII 289-290”, Rhizai, vol.VII, no.1 (2010), 63-90.

Reviews

C. Robbiano, Becoming Being: on Parmenides’ Transformative Philosophy (Sankt Augustin, 2006), BMCR 2009.03.57.

Y. Ustinova, Caves and the Ancient Greek Mind ( Oxford , 2009), CR, vol. 60, issue 2 (2010), pp. 493-495.

J.D. Mikalson, Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy ( Oxford , 2010), JHS (forthcoming).