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Professor David Sedley FBA

Philosophy

Elected 1994

Fellow type: UK Fellow
Year elected: 1994
Sections: Classical Antiquity, Philosophy
Website: https://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/directory/david-sedley

Current Post

University of Cambridge Emeritus Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy

Past appointments

University of Cambridge Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy

2000 - 2014

University of Cambridge Assistant Lecturer; Lecturer in Classics

1975 - 2000

Balliol College University of Oxford Dyson Junior Research Fellow in Greek Culture

1973 - 1975

Publications

Creationism and its Critics in Antiquity

David Sedley - Published in 2007 by University of California Press

The Midwife of Platonism: Text and Subtext in Plato's Theaetetus

David Sedley - Published in 2004 by Oxford University Press

Plato's Cratylus

David Sedley - Published in 2003 by Cambridge University Press

Lucretius and the transformation of Greek wisdom

David Sedley - Published in 1998 by University of Cambridge Press

The Hellenistic philosophers vol.2

David Sedley, A.A Long - Published in 1987 by Cambridge University Press

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