Profile

Research

Overview

Research interests

Ancient Philosophy, particularly Plato and Aristotle on Mind/Emotions, Rhetoric, Ethics

Current projects

Aristotle on the Passions: passionate responses to tragedy, the passions of non-human animals, and the role of phantasia in passionate response. I am currently also writing a book for OUP on Politics and Passions in Aristotle's Rhetoric”

Supervision

• Sam Wren-Lewis

Publications

Selected publications

• 'Feeling Fantastic - Emotions and Appearances in Aristotle', Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, vol. XXXVII (forthcoming 2010)
• 'Aristotle's Theory of the Emotions', in Pakaluk, M and Pearson, G (eds.) Moral Psychology and Human Action in Aristotle, Oxford: Oxford University Press (forthcoming 2010)
• 'A supposed contradiction about emotion-arousal in Aristotle's Rhetoric', Phronesis 52.4 (2007), 382-402