Profile

Career

Research

Overview

Research interests

• The Presocratic Philosophers: Parmenides, Zeno and Melissus
• Presocratic Atomism: Leucippus and Democritus
• Plato, Socrates and the early Socratics
• Aristotle
• Theoretical issues concerning exegesis and interpretation

Current projects

• Issues concerning Aristotle's use of the notion of potentiality in his biology and physics

Publications

Selected publications

Books

• Aristotle’s Metaphysics Theta: Translation and Commentary (Oxford University Press, 2006). This volume is one of the ongoing Clarendon Aristotle series
• Indifference Arguments (Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1993)

Papers

• ‘Aristotle: Form, Matter and Substance’ in The Routledge Companion to Metaphysics eds Robin le Poidevin, Peter Simons, Andrew McGonigal, Ross P. Cameron (Routledge, Abingdon, 2009) 29-38
• ‘About Time For Aristotle: A Critical Study of Ursula’s Coope’s Time For Aristotle’ Philosophical Quarterly 57 (2007) 280-293
• ‘Melissus and His Opponents: The Argument of DK 30 B 8’ Phronesis 50 (2005) 263-288
• ‘What Does Aristotle Mean by Priority in Substance?’ Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 24 (2003) 209-238
• ‘How Many Ways Can A Capacity Be Exercised?’ Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 74 (2000) 143-161
• ‘Aristotle’s Two Modal Theses Again’ Phronesis 44 (1999) 114-126
• ‘Megarian Possibilities’ Philosophical Studies 83 (1996) 253-276
• ‘An Ancient Principle about Causation’ Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 91 (990-1991) 135-152
• ‘The Indivisibility of the Atom’ Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 71 (1989) 125-149
• ‘Aquinas, Natural Tendencies and Natural Kinds’ New Scholasticism 63 (1989) 253-274
• ‘How Can We Find Out What Ancient Philosophers Said?’ Phronesis 33 (1988) 121-132
• ‘Aristotle on Unity and Being’ Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society 214 (1987-1988) 77-103
• ‘Buridan’s Ass’ Ratio 28 (1986) 119-134 ‘Zeno on Plurality’ Phronesis 27 (1982) 223-238