About our staff

I read classics at St Andrews before moving south to study ancient philosophy at Cambridge. There I completed my PhD work on Melissus of Samos, a Presocratic monist in the Eleatic tradition. I taught Greek and ancient philosophy at Durham, and I have now, happily, moved further north to Edinburgh.  

Summary of research interests

• Europe
• Mediterranean

• Ancient Civilisations
• Language & Literature
• Medicine, Science & Technology
• Politics

• Antiquity

Greek and Roman philosophy, with a particular focus on natural philosophy and metaphysics. 

My current research project is aimed at addressing the place of physics in the philosophy of the Stoics. How does natural philosophy inform logical and ethical discourse? Does the status of natural philosophy change during the development of Stoicism; how do account for that change? I have a particular interest in the Stoicism of the Roman Empire and how these Stoics incorporated physics in their works. Articles on Heraclitus and the early Stoics, and Marcus Aurelius and natural philosophy are in progress. 

• Greek Intermediate (Greek 1c/1d, 2a/2b, 2a/b-ex beginner)
• Socrates and Plato
• Socrates and Plato: Five Dialogues
• The Greek World