My research is at the intersection of ethics, social and political philosophy, and philosophy of law. I work on ancient authors as well as more contemporary ones. I also occassionally write on movies.
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Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy
Forth. Epikur: Eine hellenistische Alternative zur Stoa [Epicurus: A Hellenistic Alternative to the Stoa]. Reclam. (co-authored with Andree Hahmann)
2024 Epicurean Justice: Nature, Agreement, and Virtue. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2018 Speeches for the Dead: Essays on Plato’s Menexenus. Berlin: De Gruyter. (co-edited with Harold Parker)
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
Forth. "Zeno of Sidon and the Status of Women in Epicureanism." Classical Quarterly.
Forth. "Why Epicurean Happiness Is Not For Everyone." British Journal for the History of Philosophy.
Forth. "Justice and the Virtues." In The Philosophy of Epicurus: A Guide. Edited by Phillip Mitsis. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2024 "Epicurean Feelings (pathē) as Criteria." Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 106, no. 4: 754-775.
2024 "Gegen wen ist Kuria Doxa 33 gerichtet? [Against Whom is Kuria Doxa 33 Directed?]" Mnemosyne 77, no. 3: 367-382.
2024 "Democritus on Human Nature and Sociability." Ancient Philosophy 44, no. 1: 1-15.
2023 "Protagoras on How Political Communities Come to Be." Classical Philology 118, no. 3: 387-398.
2022 “Epicurus’ Non-Propositional Theory of Truth.” Mnemosyne 75, nο. 5: 739-758. (co-authored with Andree Hahmann)
2022 "Epicurus on Justice 'In Itself' (kath' heauto) (Kuria Doxa 33)" Apeiron 55, no.3: 443-453.
2022 "A Functional Reading of the Epicurean Classification of Desires." Apeiron 55, no. 2: 193-217.
2021. “epibolē tēs dianoias: Reflections on the Fourth Epicurean Criterion of Truth." Classical Quarterly 71, no. 4: 601-616.
2021 “Epicurus’ Divine Hedonism.” Mnemosyne 74, no. 3: 401-422. (co-authored with Andree Hahmann)
2020 "The Presentation of the Epicurean Virtues.” Apeiron 53, no. 4: 419-435.
2020 “Epicurus on What There Is.” In Routledge Handbook of Hellenistic Philosophy. Edited by Kelly Arenson. 204-214. London and New York: Routledge.
2018 “Heraclitus’ Political Thought.” Apeiron 51, no. 4: 404-426.
2018 “Ethnic Identity and its Political Consequences in the Menexenus.” In Speeches for the Dead: Essays on Plato’s Menexenus. Edited by Harold Parker and Jan Maximilian Robitzsch. 153-171. Berlin: De Gruyter.
2017 “On Aspasia in Plato’s Menexenus.” Phoenix 71, no. 3-4: 288-300.
2017 “The Epicureans on Human Nature and its Social and Political Consequences.” Polis 34, no. 1: 1-19.
Forth. Review of Scalas, Giulia. La théorie épicurienne du vivant: l’âme avec le corps. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2023. Philosophie Antique.
2023 Review of Allison, Justin Reid. Saving one another: Philodemus and Paul on the moral formation in community. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2020. Journal of Hellenic Studies 142: 445-446.
2021 Review of Erbì, Margherita. Epicuro. Lettere: frammenti e testimonianze. Pisa: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2020. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2021.12.31.
2021 Review of Erler, Michael. Epicurus: an introduction to his practical ethics and politics. Basel: Schwabe Verlag, 2020. Journal of Hellenic Studies 141: 298-299.
2020 Review of Bénatouïl, Thomas, Jean-Baptiste Gourinat and Michel Narcy (eds.). L’épicurisme antique. Paris: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2019. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2020.08.06.
2018 Review of Knoll, Manuel. Antike Griechische Philosophie. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2017. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2018.7.28.
2018 Review of Fantino, Enrica, Ulrike Muss, Charlotte Schubert and Kurt Sier (eds.). Heraklit im Kontext. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2017. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2018.03.52.
2018 Review of Annas, Julia and Gabor Betegh (eds.). Cicero's De Finibus: Philosophical Approaches. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Polis 35, no. 1: 273-276.
Social and Political Philosophy
2020 “‘I wrote it in part because of you:’ Broch and Arendt on Human Rights.” History of Political Thought 41, no. 1: 175-190.
2019 “The Genesis of Hannah Arendt’s Conception of Human Rights.” The Southern Journal of Philosophy 57, no. 2: 240-258.
2017 “The Aporias of Grounding the Right to Have Rights in Hannah Arendt.” Arendt Studies 1: 151-169.
2011 “Walter Benjamins ‘bloßes Leben’ und Hannah Arendts ‘bloßes Menschsein:’ Ein Vergleich. [Walter Benjamin’s ‘Bare Life’ and Hannah Arendt’s ‘Being Only Human:’ A Comparison.]” Philosophisches Jahrbuch 118, no. 1: 104-128.
2020 “On Real and Simulated Relationships in Spike Jonze’s Her.” Film and Philosophy 24: 120-133.
2018 “Fate, Character, and Cyclical Thinking: Cianfrance's The Place Beyond the Pines." Film Criticism 42, no. 1.