Curriculum
Vitae
Brad Inwood
University Professor
Departments of Classics and Philosophy
University of Toronto
1. Contact
Information
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
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,
1982-1986 Assistant Professor of Classics,
University of Toronto.
1986
promoted to Associate Professor of Classics (with tenure), University of
1987 cross-appointed to the Department of Philosophy.
1990
promoted to Professor,
2001-2007
Chair, Department of Classics,
2007
5. Publications
Books
3. The Poem of Empedocles,
4.
The Epicurus Reader, with Lloyd Gerson and D.S.
Hutchinson (Hackett 1994).
5.
Assent and Argument: Studies
in
6.
Cambridge Companion to the
Stoics,
editor (Cambridge University Press, 2003).
7.
Hellenistic and Early Modern
Philosophy, Co-editor, with Jon Miller (
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
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
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 Exempla’ Erasmus 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;
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.’
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’
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 (
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).
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 (
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
24. ‘God and human knowledge
in Seneca’s Natural Questions’ Proceedings 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 (
27. Comments on Stephen White
‘Happiness in the Hellenistic Lyceum’ Apeiron
35.4 (2002) 95-101 =
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,
31. ‘Seneca on Freedom and
Autonomy’ in Metaphysics, Soul and
Ethics. Themes from the Work of Richard Sorabji (ed. R. Salles,
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).
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 (
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 (
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
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
32.
J. Barnes Logic
and the Imperial Stoa in Bryn Mawr Classical
Reviews 9.1 (1998) 4-8.
33.
34.
Corpus dei Papiri Filosofici Greci e Latini III in
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.
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
42.
I.G. Kidd, trans. Posidonius: Volume III. The Translation of the
Fragments in BMCR 99.8.2.
43.
A.A. Long ed., The
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
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
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.
483.
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,
7. Service to the University
1984-8: organizer of the
1989-1992, 2006-9: Member of Academic Board of Governing Council.
1990-1: Co-ordinator, Ancient Philosophy group,
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
1991-1994: Member, Council of the
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
1989-: Member of the organizing committee for the triennial Symposia
Hellenistica.
1999-2001: member of the editorial committee of
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.