Curriculum Vitae
Brad Inwood

University Professor
Departments of Classics and Philosophy

University of Toronto

1. Contact Information

Department of Classics
University of Toronto
125 Queen's Park
Toronto M5S 2C7
Canada

(416) 978-3178

email: brad.inwood@utoronto.ca

2. Degrees

B.A. Classics, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ont., 1974.
M.A. Classics, University of Toronto, 1975.
Ph.D. Classics, University of Toronto, 1981.

3. Awards and Honours

Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Stanford University: 1981-2.
Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada: 1994.
Fellow, National Humanities Centre: 1995-6.
Appointed Canada Research Chair in Ancient Philosophy: December 2000.
Fellow, Centre for Advanced Study in the Behavioural Sciences: 2004-5
.
Malcolm Bowie Distinguished Visitor at Christ's College, Cambridge: Easter term, 2008.

4. Employment

1981-2 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Classics, Stanford University.

1982-1986 Assistant Professor of Classics, University of Toronto.

1986 promoted to Associate Professor of Classics (with tenure), University of Toronto.

1987 cross-appointed to the Department of Philosophy.

1990 promoted to Professor, University of Toronto.

2001-2007 Chair, Department of Classics, University of Toronto .
2007
promoted to University Professor, University of Toronto.

5. Publications

Books

1.    Ethics and Human Action in Early Stoicism. Oxford University Press, 1985.

2.    Hellenistic Philosophy: Introductory Readings, with Lloyd Gerson (Hackett, 1988; second, expanded edition 1997).

3.   The Poem of Empedocles, University of Toronto Press, 1992; revised and expanded edition, 2001. Introduction reprinted in Krstovic, ed. Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism vol. 50 (Gale Group 2002).

4.     The Epicurus Reader, with Lloyd Gerson and D.S. Hutchinson (Hackett 1994).

5.      Assent and Argument: Studies in Cicero’s Academic Books. Co-editor, with Jaap Mansfeld (Brill, 1997).

6.     Cambridge Companion to the Stoics, editor (Cambridge University Press, 2003).

7.      Hellenistic and Early Modern Philosophy, Co-editor, with Jon Miller (Cambridge University Press, 2003).

8.     Language and Learning (proceedings of the 2001 Symposium Hellenisticum) Co-editor with Dorothea Frede (Cambridge University Press 2005).

9.     Reading Seneca: Stoic Philosophy at Rome (Oxford University Press 2005).

10.   Seneca: Selected Philosophical Letters (Clarendon Later Ancient Philosophy Series; Oxford University Press 2007).

11. The Stoics Reader, with Lloyd Gerson (Hackett 2008) .

 

Refereed Articles and Chapters  

1.   ‘A Note on Commensurate Universals in the Posterior AnalyticsPhronesis 24 (1979) 320-329.

2.   ‘The Origin of Epicurus’ Concept of Void’ Classical Philology 76 (1981) 273-285.

3.   ‘A Note on Desire in Stoic Theory’ Dialogue 21 (1982) 329-331.

4.   ‘A Note on Erasmus’ Use of Historical ExemplaErasmus in English 12 (1983) 10-13.

5.   ‘The Two Forms of Oikeiosis in Arius and the Stoa’ pp. 190-201 in On Stoic and Peripatetic Ethics: The Work of Arius Didymus, ed. W.W. Fortenbaugh; New Brunswick, N.J. 1983.

6.   ‘Plato, Leibniz and the Furnished Soul’ (with Graeme Hunter), in Journal of the History of Philosophy 22 (1984) 423-434.

7.   ‘Hierocles: Theory and Argument in the Second-Century A.D.’ Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy  2 (1984) 151-183.

8.   ‘The Stoics on the Grammar of Action’ Southern Journal of Philosophy vol. 23 Supp. (1985) 75-86.

9.   ‘Goal and Target in Stoicism’ Journal of Philosophy 83 (1986) 547-556.

10. ‘Anaxagoras and Infinite Divisibility’ Illinois Classical Studies 11.1-2 (1986) 17-33.

11. Commentary on ‘The origins of the concept of natural law’ by Gisela Striker, pp. 95-101 in Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, vol. 2; ed. J. Cleary (University Press of America, 1987).

12. ‘Professor Stokes on Adeimantus in the Republic’ pp. 97-103 in Justice, Law and Method in Plato and Aristotle, ed. S. Panagiotou (Edmonton 1987).

13. Annotated translations of Erasmus’ Oratio de Virtute Amplectenda and Oratio Funebris for the Collected Works of Erasmus vol. 29 pp. 1-30 and 424-430 (University of Toronto Press 1989).

14. ‘Rhetorica Disputatio: the  strategy of  De Finibus II’ pp. 143-164 in The Poetics of Therapy (= Apeiron 23.4 [1990]) ed. Martha Nussbaum.

15. ‘Chrysippus on Extension and the Void’ Revue Internationale de Philosophie 178 (1991) 245-266.

16. ‘Seneca and Psychological Dualism’, pp. 150-183 in Passions and Perceptions, edd. J. Brunschwig and M. Nussbaum (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1993).

17. ‘Politics and Paradox in Seneca’s De Beneficiis’ , pp. 241-265 in Justice and Generosity edd. A. Laks and M. Schofield (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1995).

18. ‘Why do fools fall in love?’ pp. 55-69  in Aristotle and After, ed. R. Sorabji (London: Institute of Classical Studies 1997).

19. ‘Seneca in his Philosophical Milieu’, pp. 63-76 in Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 97 (1995).

20. ‘Rules and Reasoning in Stoic Ethics’ pp. 95-127 in Topics in Stoic Philosophy, ed. K. Ierodiakonou (Oxford University Press 1999). Appeared in Greek translation in vol. 15.1 of Deucalion (Athens 1997).

21. ‘Stoicism’, chapter 7 of the Routledge History of Philosophy vol. 2 (ed. D.J. Furley), 1999. Pp. 222-252.

22, ‘Truth in Moral Medicine’ Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 49 (1999) 805-810.

23. ‘Stoic Ethics’ (I-VII) pp. 675-705 in Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy ed. K. Algra et al. (Cambridge University Press 1999).

24. ‘God and human knowledge in Seneca’s Natural QuestionsProceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy 15 (1999) 23-43. Expanded version published in Traditions of Theology: Studies in Hellenistic Theology, its background and aftermath (Proceedings of the 1998 Symposium Hellenisticum) edd. D. Frede and A. Laks (Brill 2002), pp. 119-157.

25. ‘The Will in Seneca the Younger’ Classical Philology 95 (2000) 44-60.

26. Comments on C.C.W. Taylor ‘The Origins of Our Present Paradigms’ pp. 85-92 in New Perspectives on Plato, Modern and Ancient edd. Julia Annas and Christopher Rowe ( Harvard University Press 2002 = Center for Hellenic Studies Colloquia vol. 6).

27. Comments on Stephen White ‘Happiness in the Hellenistic Lyceum’ Apeiron 35.4 (2002) 95-101 = Lawrence Jost and Roger A. Shiner, eds., Eudaimonia and Well-Being (Kelowna, BC: Academic Printing and Publishing 2002).

28. ‘Reason, Rationalization and Happiness in Seneca’ pp. 91-107 in Rationality and Happiness from the ancients to the medievals ed. Jorge Gracia and Jiyuan Yu (University of Rochester Press 2003).

29. ‘Natural Law in Seneca’ in  Studia Philonica 15 (2003) (edd. H. Najman, D. O’Connor, and G. Stirling), 81-99.

30. ‘Moral Judgement in Seneca’ in Stoicism: traditions and transformations, (edd. Zupko and Strange, Cambridge University Press 2004), 76-94.

31. ‘Seneca on Freedom and Autonomy’ in Metaphysics, Soul and Ethics. Themes from the Work of Richard Sorabji (ed. R. Salles, Oxford University Press, 2005), 489-505.

32. ‘Who do we think we are?’ in The Virtuous Life in Greek Ethics (ed. B. Reis, Cambridge University Press, 2006), 230-243.

33. ‘Seneca, der Erfinder des Selbst?’ pp. 273-296 of Antike Philosophie verstehen ed. M. Van Ackeren and J. Müller edd., Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2006.  Translation and adaptation of ch. 12 of Reading Seneca.

34. ‘Law in Roman Philosophy’ ch. 6, sections 2-5 in Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence vol. 6 (ed. Fred D. Miller) Kluwer Publishing, 2007.

35. ‘Moral Causes: The Role of Physical Explanation in Ancient Ethics’ pp. 14-36 in Thinking About Causes: from Greek Philosophy to Modern Physics (ed. P. Machamer and G. Wolters), University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007.

36. ‘The Importance of Form in the Letters of Seneca the Younger’ pp. 133-148 in Ruth Morello and Andrew Morrison, edd. Ancient Letters: Classical and Late Antique Epistolography Oxford University Press, 2007.

37. ‘Seneca, Plato and Platonism: the case of Letter 65’ pp. 149-167 in Platonic Stoicism and Stoic Platonism (edd. Mauro Bonazzi and Christoph Helmig) Leuven University Press, 2007.

38. 'Why Physics?' pp. 201-233 in God and Cosmos in Stoicism (ed. R. Salles) Oxford University Press, 2009.

39. 'Antiochus on Physics' forthcoming in The Philosophy of Antiochus ed. D. Sedley (Cambridge University Press).

40. 'Stoicism in Later Ancient Philosophy' forthcoming in the Cambridge History of Philosophy in Later Antiquity ed. L. Gerson (Cambridge University Press).

41. 'Empedocles and metempsychosis: the critique of Diogenes of Oenoanda’ forthcoming in Leib und Seele in der antiken Philosophie / Body and Soul in Ancient Philosophy  ed. Dorothea Frede (De Gruyter).

 

 

 

Dictionary and Encyclopedia Articles 

1.      All articles on Stoics and Stoicism for Der Neue Pauly, vol. 2 onwards.

2.      Five items for the Oxford Classical Dictionary, ed. 3.

3.      Article ‘Empedocles’ for Encyclopedia of Classical Philosophy, ed. D. Zeyl (Greenwood Publishing, Westport, Connecticut) 201-206.

4.      Five articles for Routledge’s Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Musonius, Epictetus, Seneca, Hierocles, Marcus Aurelius.

5.      ‘Areios Didymos’ pp. 345-347 in  Dictionnaire des Philosophes Antiques, vol. 1, ed. Richard Goulet (Paris 1989).

6.      Three articles in the Encyclopedia of Philosophy (‘Hellenistic Thought’ [with Alexander Jones], Cleanthes’ and ‘Stoicism’).

7.      ‘Les stoïciens' pp. 96-107 in Histoire de la philosophie, ed. J.-F. Pradeau (Éditions du Seuil, Paris 2009).

8. Platonism', 'Stoicism' pp. 308, 382-3 in The Oxford Companion to Emotion and Affective Sciences edd. David Sander and Klaus Scherer (Oxford University Press, 2009).

 

 

Reviews

1.       Sven-Tage Teodorsson Anaxagoras’ Theory of Matter in Phoenix 37 (1983) 354-356.

2.       D. O’Brien Pour interpréter Empédocle in  Ancient Philosophy 4 (1984) 99-101.

3.       C. Kahn The Art and Thought of Heraclitus in Ancient Philosophy 4 (1984) 227-234.  

4.       N. Kretzmann, ed. Infinity and Continuity in Ancient and Medieval Thought in International Studies in Philosophy XVI/3 (1984) 88-90.

5.       R.M. Hare Plato and J. Barnes Aristotle in Classical Views/ Échos du monde classique n.s. 4 (1985) 177-9.

6.       F.H. Sandbach Aristotle and the Stoics in Philosophical Review 95 (1986) 470-473.

7.       E. Asmis Epicurus’ Scientific Method in Classical Philology 81 (1986) 349-354.

8.       Ian Walker, ed. Plato’s Euthyphro and R.W. Sharples, ed. Plato’s Meno in Classical Views/Échos du monde classique n.s. 6 (1986) 310-312.

9.       M. Schofield and G. Striker, edd. The Norms of Nature in Canadian Philosophical Reviews 7 (1987) 164-166.

10.  Michael White Agency and Integrality in Phoenix 41 (1987) 200-204.

11.  Malte Hossenfelder, Die Philosophie der Antike 3: Stoa, Epikureismus und Skepsis, in Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 71 (1989) 73-81.

12.  Marcia Colish, The Stoic Tradition from Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages in Ancient Philosophy 9 (1989) 337-9.

13.  Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, vol. 4 (1988) in Hermathena CXLVII (1989) 75-77.

14.  David Furley, The Greek Cosmologists vol. 1. The formation of the atomic theory and its earliest critics in Ancient Philosophy 10 (1990) 271-273.

15.  Gerard Watson Phantasia in the Classical World in Phoenix 45 (1991) 81-83.

16.  T. Rosenmeyer, Senecan Drama and Stoic Cosmology in Classical Philology 86 (1991) 248-252.

17. R.W. Sharples, ed. and trans. Alexander of Aphrodisias: Ethical Problems in Philosophical Review 101 (1992) 845-847.

18.  Malcolm Schofield The Stoic Idea of the City in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 3 (1992) 208-213.

19. Michael Wedin Mind and Imagination in Aristotle in Nous 28 (1994) 414-6.

20. Leslie Ann Dean-Jones Women’s Bodies in Classical Greek Science in Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews 5 (1994) 489-97. Joint with Mark Timmins.

21.  J. Mansfeld Prolegomena in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 6 (1995) 111-114.

22.  Paul Oskar Kristeller, Greek Philosophers of the Hellenistic Age in Review of Metaphysics March 1995 pp. 660-662.

23.  Julia Annas, The Morality of Happiness in Ancient Philosophy 15 (1995) 647-665.

24.  Jacques Brunschwig Papers in Hellenistic Philosophy in Journal of the History of Philosophy 33 (1995) 683-4.

25. Carl Huffman, Philolaus of Croton in Philosophical Review 104 (1995) 118-120.

26.  Stephen Everson, ed.  Companions to ancient thought 3: Language in Échos du monde classique/Classical Views 39 (1995) 435-439.

27.  Tryggve Göransson Albinus, Alcinous, Arius Didymus in  BMCR 7 (1996) 25-30.

28. Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy XIII in Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews 7.5 (1996) 446-451.

29.  Catherine Atherton, The Stoics on ambiguity in International Studies in Philosophy 28 (1996) 110-111.

30. S. Engstrom and J. Whiting, edd. Aristotle, Kant and the Stoics in Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews 8.4 (1997) 321-8.

31. W.O. Stephens, tr. The Ethics of the Stoic Epictetus by A. Bonhoeffer, in Electronic Antiquity 3.7 (May 1997).

32.  J. Barnes Logic and the Imperial Stoa in Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews   9.1 (1998) 4-8.

33.  Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy XIV in Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews 9.2 (1998) 189-194.

34. Corpus dei Papiri Filosofici Greci e Latini III in  Phoenix  51 (1997) 88-90.

35. ‘Nature and the self: A.A. Long on Stoicism’ in Apeiron 30 (1997) pp. 239-248.

36. R. Bracht Branham and Marie-Odile Goulet-Cazé The Cynics: The Cynic Movement in Antiquity and its Legacy in Journal of the History of Philosophy 36 (1998) 125-6.

37.  N. Rescher Objectivity in Philosophy in Review 18 (1998) 222-3.

38.  Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 15 (1997) in BMCR 98.6.27.

39. G. Striker, Studies in Hellenistic Epistemology and Ethics in CV/EMC 16 (1997) 501-504.

40.  L. Becker, A new stoicism in Apeiron 31 (1998) 293-308.

41.  R.W. Sharples Stoics, Epicureans, and Sceptics in Phoenix 52 (1998) 161-3.

42.  I.G. Kidd, trans. Posidonius: Volume III. The Translation of the
Fragments
in BMCR 99.8.2.

43. A.A. Long ed., The Cambridge Companion to Early Greek Philosophy in Phoenix 53 (1999), 376-378.

44.  J. Zetzel Cicero On the Commonwealth and On the Laws  BMCR 00.04.20.

45.  David Sedley Lucretius and the Transformations of Greek Wisdom in American Journal of Philology 121 (2000), 156-159.

46.  A. Martin and O. Primavesi  L’Empédocle de Strasbourg Classical Review 50 (2000) 5-7.

47. Susanne Bobzien Determinism and Freedom in Stoic Philosophy in Classical Review 50 (2000) 495-497.

48. Robert Dobbin Epictetus: Discourses 1 in Philosophical Review 109 (2000) 634-637.

49.  Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques in Phoenix 55 (2001) 198-199.

50.  R. Sorabji Emotion and Peace of Mind in Ethics 112 (2002) 863-866.

51.  Mark Morford The Roman Philosophers: from the time of Cato the Censor to the death of Marcus Aurelius, BMCR 2003.01.29.

52.  Sarah Broadie and Christopher Rowe, ed. and trans. Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics in Philosophical Review  112 (2003) 567-570.

53.  John Sellars The Art of Living: the Stoics on the Nature and Function of Philosophy Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2004.04.04 (http://ndpr.icaap.org/content/archives/2004/4/inwood-sellars.html).

54. Review of G.D. Williams Seneca: De Otio; De Brevitate Vitae  Classical World 97 (2004) 465-466.

55.  David Sedley ed. The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Philosophy in Journal of the History of Philosophy 43 (2005) pp. 111-112.

56. G.D. Williams Seneca: De Otio; De Brevitate Vitae in Classical World 97 (2004) 465-466.

57. Rainer Zöller Die Vorstellung vom Willen in der Morallehre Senecas in Gnomon 77 (2005) 724-5.

58. Wolfgang Detel Foucault and Classical Antiquity in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2005.09.02 (http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=3721).

59. S.M. Gardiner ed. Virtue Ethics Old and New and C. Gill ed. Norms and Objectivity in BMCR 2005.09.74.

60. Gretchen Reydams-Schils The Roman Stoics in Classical Philology 101 (2006) 88-93.

61. Christopher Gill The Structured Self in Hellenistic and Roman Thought in Philosophical Quarterly 57 (2007) 479-
483.

62. T. Scaltsas and A. Mason edd. The Philosophy of Epictetus in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=13305).

 

6. Graduate teaching

With one exception, all my graduate courses have been taught in seminars combining Classics students working in Greek and Latin and others working from texts in translation where necessary (from Philosophy for the most part, but also from Religion, Political Theory, etc.). Topics include Presocratic philosophy, Stoicism (metaphysics, moral psychology, physics and ethics), Seneca, Cicero , Plato, natural law in ancient philosophy. Doctoral students I have recently supervised are now teaching at Rollins College in Florida (Classics and Philosophy), the University of Edinburgh (one in Classics, one in Philosophy), in Philosophy at UC San Diego, and in Philosophy at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.

7. Service to the University (selective)

1984-8: organizer of the Toronto area Senior Seminar in Ancient Philosophy.
1989-1992, 2006-9: Member of Academic Board of Governing Council.
1990-1: Co-ordinator, Ancient Philosophy group, University of Toronto .
1990-1993, 1996-1999: Associate Chair and Graduate Co-ordinator, Dept. of Classics.
1990-1994, 1996-1999: Member, Executive Committee of Division I of the School of Graduate Studies.
1991-1994: Member, Council of the School of Graduate Studies.
1992-1995, 2008-2011: Director, Collaborative Programme in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy.
2001-2007: Chair, Department of Classics.

8. Service to the Profession

Current editorial board memberships: Classical Philology, Ancient Philosophy, Apeiron, Collected Works of Erasmus (University of Toronto Press), Journal of the History of Philosophy, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews.
1989-: Member of the organizing committee for the triennial Symposia Hellenistica.
1999-2001: member of the editorial committee of Phoenix (ancient philosophy).
1999-2001: member of the editorial board of Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews.
2007-2010: Program Advisory Committee for Ancient Philosophy (American Philosophical Association).
2007-: editor, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy.