King’s College London is one of the top 5 research centres for philosophy in the country. It is also one of the top departments in the UK for Ancient Philosophy.

Peter Adamson, Chris Hughes, Joachim Aufderheide, Shaul Tor and Raphael Woolf have all published in the subject or in closely related areas recently.

Selected Recent Publications in Ancient Philosophy

Peter Adamson

• 2016. Classical Philosophy: A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, Volume 1. Oxford University Press
• 2015. Philosophy in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds: A History of Philosophy Wthout Any Gaps, Volume 2. Oxford University Press
• 2014. Late Antiquity.  Phronesis 59 (4):385-399

Chris Hughes

• 2015. Augustine on Will, Freedom and Foreknowledge: De Libero Arbitrio, III, 1 – 3. Religious Studies, 1-18

Joachim Aufderheide

• Forthcoming 2017. Is Aristotle a Virtue Ethicist?. In Rereading Ancient Philosophy: Old Chestnuts and Sacred Cows, Verity Harte and Raphael Woolf (Eds.). Cambridge University Press
• Forthcoming 2017. Aristotelian Piety Reconsidered. CHS Research Bulletin 5, no. 1
• 2016. Aristotle against Delos: Pleasure in Nicomachean Ethics X. Phronesis, Vol. 61, No. 3, p. 284-306.
• 2015. The content of happiness: a new case for theôria.  In J. Aufderheide, & R. M. Bader (Eds.), The Highest Good in Aristotle and Kant. (pp. 36-59). Oxford
  University Press.
• (with Ralf M Bader) 2015. The Highest Good in Aristotle and Kant. Oxford University Press
• 2013. An Inconsistency in the Philebus?.  British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Vol. 21, No. 5, p. 817-837.

Shaul Tor

• In Press 2017. Mortal and Divine in Early Greek Epistemology: A Study of Hesiod, Xenophanes and Parmenides. Cambridge Classical Studies. Cambridge University Press.
• In Press 2017. On second thoughts, does nature like to hide? Heraclitus B123 reconsidered. In V. Harte, & R.G. Woolf (Eds.), Rereading Ancient Philosophy: Old Chestnuts and Sacred Cows. Cambridge University Press.
• 2016. Heraclitus on Apollo’s signs and his own: contemplating oracles and philosophical inquiry. In E. Eidinow, J. Kindt, & R. Osborne (Eds.), Theologies of Ancient Greek Religion. (pp. 89-116). Cambridge University Press.
• (with Eidinow, E., Kindt , J., Osborne, R.) 2016. Introduction: what might we mean by the theologies of ancient Greek religion?. In E. Eidinow, J. Kindt, & R. Osborne (Eds.), Theologies of Ancient Greek Religion. (pp. 1-11). Cambridge University Press.
• 2015. Parmenides’ epistemology and the two parts of his poem. Phronesis, Vol. 60, No. 1, p. 3-39.
• 2014. Sextus and Wittgenstein on the end of justification, International Journal for the Study of Skepticism, Vol. 4, No. 2, p. 81-108.

Raphael Woolf

• 2015. Cicero: The Philosophy of a Roman Sceptic. Routledge.
• 2014. Thinking about Forms and Particulars. Methexis, 27, 150-173.
• 2013. Cicero and Gyges. Classical Quarterly, 63(2), 801-812.
• 2013. Plato and the Norms of Thought. Mind, 122(485), 171-216.
• 2013. Plato on Philosophical Method: Enquiry and Definition. In F. Sheffield, & J. Warren (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Ancient Philosophy. (pp. 143-156). Routledge.