Professor David Sedley FBA

Philosophy
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1994
Subjects
Classics, Philosophy

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

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Dr Dorothy Thompson FBA

Classics and Ancient History

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Professor Katherine Dunbabin FBA

Art and society in the Roman Empire: Roman mosaics as documents of social and cultural history; the art of the Roman banquet; the imagery of spectacular entertainments

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Professor James Warren FBA

James Warren's research interests include Presocratic philosophy, Plato, Aristotle, and Hellenistic philosophy and his publications range across themes in metaphysics, philosophy of mind and moral psychology, ethics, and political philosophy.

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