Professor of Ancient Philosophy @CamClassics. Fellow @CorpusCambridge and @BritishAcademy_.

Cambridge
Joined July 2009
Exciting development in the Faculty of Classics.
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Be sure to check your kid's Halloween candy this year, just found Socrates corrupting the youth in my child’s Snickers.
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It is what he would have wanted.
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It appears to me that today is International Sceptics Day. While I do not affirm that it is so, there seem to be reasons to celebrate, although there also seem to be equally persuasive arguments in favour of not celebrating.
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An exciting new venture @CamClassics: the Dan Kaylor Visiting Fellowship in Hellenistic Philosophy, made possible by a generous donation.
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Helps the Digest-ion... – at Fen Ditton, England
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3 more points. – at Cambridge, England
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We are hiring—a permanent lectureship in Ethics/Political Philosophy—deadline 15 Nov kcl.ac.uk/jobs/144566-lectur…
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#muggedoffdotcom – at Fen Ditton, England
“It feels like mugged off dot com, but ultimately we’ve been unprofessional” Neil Harris on Cambridge United’s 2-1 defeat by Huddersfield ⤵️ #CamUTD | #BBCEFL
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New phrase just dropped.
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Never fails to crack me up. RIP Tim
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Happy Tuesday. – at Fen Ditton, England
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Result of sneezing during CT scan
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Neurons establishing relationships with each other. Fundamentally what happens when you are learning.
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Going over some old lecture notes as I work out what I need to add for next term, I rediscover this picture (by @sirjoancornella) which encapsulates nicely Simplicius Commentary on Aristotle’s De Caelo 295,1–9:
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Fascinating A-level gender disparity graph in the @Telegraph
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hegesi… – at Fen Ditton, England
“I despise the kind of book which tells you how to live, how to make yourself happy. Philosophers have no good news for you at this level. I believe the first duty of philosophy is making you understand what deep shit you are in!” ― Slavoj Žižek
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