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Department of Philosophy

 

 

Julia Annas

Julia Annas (Ph.D., Harvard), Regents Professor of Philosophy, was at St. Hugh's College, Oxford, for fifteen years before coming to Arizona. She specializes in almost every facet of ancient Greek philosophy, including metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and psychology. Her current research interests are in Platonic ethics. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the founder and former editor of the annual journal, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy.

BOOKS

  • Platonic Ethics, Old and New (Cornell, 1999)
  • Sextus Empiricus: Outlines of Scepticism (Cambridge, 1994), a translation with Jonathan Barnes.
  • The Morality of Happiness (Oxford, 1993)
  • Hellenistic Philosophy of Mind (California, 1992)
  • The Modes of Scepticism (Cambridge, 1985), with Jonathan Barnes.
  • An Introduction to Plato's Republic (Oxford, 1981)
  • Aristotle's Metaphysics Books M and N (Oxford, 1976), a translation with Introduction and Notes.

RECENT ARTICLES

  • "Aristotle and Kant on Morality and Practical Reasoning" (Aristotle, Kant & The Stoics,ed. S. Ergstrom and J. Whiting, Cambridge 1996)
  • "Virtue and Eudaimonism" (Virtue and Vice, ed. E. Paul, J. Jaul and F. Miller,  Cambridge, 1998)
  • "Prudence and Morality in Ancient and Modern Ethics" (Ethics, January 1995)
  • "Epicurus on Agency" (Passions and Perceptions, Cambridge, 1993)
  • "The Good Life and the Good Lives of Others" (The Good Life and the Human Good, Cambridge, 1992)
  • "Plato the Sceptic" (Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Supp. Vol., 1992).

Contact Professor Annas at:
Department of Philosophy
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona 85721-0027
jannas at u.arizona.edu

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