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Faculty of Classics

 

Research

History and Philosophy of Science, Logic, Rhetoric, Philosophy of Language, and Epistemology
in Ancient Greco-Roman and Early Chinese Thought (Approximately, 700 BCE – 200 CE)
Sino-Hellenic Cross-Cultural Comparison

Publications

Key publications: 

Edited Volume (accepted)

Green Antiquity: Comparing Environmental Thought in Ealy China and Ancient Greece (co-edited with Jorge Torres) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Contributors: Roger Ames, J. Baird Callicott, Sophia M. Connell, Christopher Gill, Elisabeth Hsu, Lisa Indraccollo, Mariska Leunissen, David Machek, Lisa Raphals, Dennis Schilling, Roel Sterckx, Guorong Yang, and Jingyi Jenny Zhao.

Journal Articles
2023, Nature (zi ran 自然) of Technological and Economic Development in Early Daoism
Philosophy East and West, 73: 4, pp. 771-780.

2020/21, Ming (名) in the Laozi Daodejing (老子道德經): Interpretations and Translations of the Opening Chapter
Philosophy East and West, 71: 3, pp. 747-766.

2017, Moral Falsity in the Eyes of the Superhuman: The Cases of Socrates and Mozi
Frontiers of Philosophy in China, 12: 4, pp. 515-532.
 

Other publications: 

Book Chapters

(under review) The Uniqueness of the Role of Socrates’ daimonion in Plato’s Philosophy (co-authored with Mark Wildish)
Plato and Gods (Brill’s Plato Studies Series), edited by Naoya Iwata and Ikko Tanaka. Leiden: Brill.

(under review) Konzi’s (Confucius’) Rectification of Names and Socratic Definitions
Comparative Explorations (A volume in honour of Prof. Sir Geoffrey E. R. Lloyd), edited by Jingyi Jenny Zhao and Arthur Harris, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

(under review) The Ethics of Agriculture: Cultivation of plants and domestication of animals (coauthored with Sophia M. Connell)
Green Antiquity: Comparing Environmental Thought in Ealy China and Ancient Greece, co-edited with Jorge Torres, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

(accepted) Plato and Xunzi on Human Responsibility for the Order of the Natural World
Green Antiquity: Comparing Environmental Thought in Ealy China and Ancient Greece, co-edited with Jorge Torres, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

2026 (in print; accepted in 2023.) Environmental and Natural Science: Understanding and (Ab)Using the Environment (co-authored with Georgia L. Irby)
A Cultural History of Nature in Antiquity, edited by Annette Giesecke, London: Bloomsbury

Lloyd-Dan David Research Fellow, Needham Research Institute
Not available for consultancy

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Latest news

Faculty wins University Outreach Award

22 May 2026

The Faculty is delighted to announce that we have been named the recipient of the University Outreach Award at Classics for All ’s 6th annual Impact Awards. The award recognises the Faculty’s extensive outreach and widening participation initiatives designed to break down barriers and make classical subjects accessible to...

Cambridge and Yale Postgraduates Explore Ancient Environments

20 May 2026

In late March, postgraduate researchers from the Cambridge Faculty of Classics travelled to Yale University for the second Yale-Cambridge Roman Empire Workshop. Held over three days in New Haven, Connecticut, the international conference brought together early-career scholars and senior faculty from archaeology, classics...

CANCELLED: Gray Lectures 2026

18 May 2026

Unfortunately, this year's J.H. Gray Lectures have been cancelled due to speaker ill-health. We are sorry for the short notice and for any inconvenience caused.

Phyle Project

5 May 2026

The Faculty is delighted to announce that Dr Daniel Sutton has won a Phyle Project Award, for scholars working on how democracy has been preserved, restored, or recovered across time. For more information please see the Phyle Project website .