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David Neil Sedley FBA (born 30 May 1947) is a British philosopher and historian of philosophy. He was the seventh Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Cambridge University. Early life Sedley was educated at Trinity College, Oxford where he was awarded a first class honours degree in Literae Humaniores in 1969. He was awarded a PhD in 1974 by University College London for a text, translation and commentary on Book XXVIII of Epicurus' On Nature. He is the younger brother of Sir Stephen Sedley. Academic career Since 1976 Sedley has been a fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge; from 1996 he was Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Cambridge University before in July 2000 being elevated to the Laurence Professorship of Ancient Philosophy. He retired from this position at the end of September 2014. He was succeeded in this post by his former student, Gábor Betegh. He has held visiting appointments at Princeton University (September 1981 – March 1982), University of California, Berkeley (1984 and 2004), Yale University (1990), and Cornell University (2001). Honours He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in July 1994. Publications Book The Hellenistic Philosophers (with A. A. Long), Cambridge 1987 Lucretius and the Transformation of Greek Wisdom, Cambridge 1998 The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Philosophy, Cambridge 2003 Plato's Cratylus, Cambridge 2003 The Midwife of Platonism. Text and Subtext in Plato's Theaetetus, Oxford 2004 Creationism and its Critics in Antiquity, Berkeley and Los Angeles 2007 Pyrrhonists, Patricians, Platonizers. Hellenistic Philosophy in the Period 155–86 BC (edited with A. M. Ioppolo), Naples, 2007 Articles and Chapters ‘The structure of Epicurus’ On nature’ Cronache Ercolanesi 4 (1974), 89–92 ‘Epicurus, On nature, Book XI: an argument against Eudoxan astronomy’ in Proceedings of the XIV International Congress of Papyrology (Oxford 1974), 269–275 ‘Epicurus and his professional rivals’ in J. Bollack, A. Laks (ed.), Études sur l’épicurisme antique (Cahiers de Philologie I, 1976), 119–159 ‘Epicurus and the mathematicians of Cyzicus’ Cronache Ercolanesi 6 (1976), 23–54 ‘Diodorus Cronus and Hellenistic philosophy’ Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society 203 (1977), 74–120 ‘The protagonists’ chap. 1 of M. Schofield et al. (ed.), Doubt and Dogmatism: Studies in Hellenistic Epistemology (Oxford, 1980), 1–19 ‘The end of the Academy’ Phronesis 26 (1981), 67–75 ‘Two conceptions of vacuum’ Phronesis 27 (1982), 175–193 ‘On signs’ in J. Barnes et al. (ed.), Science and Speculation: Studies in Hellenistic Theory and Practice (Cambridge 1982), 239–272 ‘The Stoic criterion of identity’ Phronesis 27 (1982), 255–275; French version, tr. J. Brunschwig, ‘Le Critère d’identité chez les Stoïciens’, Revue de métaphysique et de morale 4 (1989), 513–533 ‘Epicurus’ refutation of determinism’ in ΣΥΖΗΤΗΣΙΣ_: studi sull’ epicureismo greco e romano offerti a Marcello Gigante_ (Naples 1983), 11–51 ‘The motivation of Greek skepticism’ in M.F. Burnyeat (ed.), The Skeptical Tradition (Berkeley/Los Angeles 1983), 9–29 ‘On the Stoic goods in Stobaeus, Eclogae 2’ in W.W. Fortenbaugh (ed.), On Stoic and Peripatetic ethics: the work of Arius Didymus (Rutgers University Studies in Classical Humanities, 1; New Brunswick 1983), 85–86 ‘The character of Epicurus’ On nature' in Atti del XVII congresso internazionale di papirologia (Naples 1984), 381–387 ‘The negated conjunction in Stoicism’ Elenchos 5 (1984), 311–316 ‘The Stoic theory of universals’ in Southern Journal of Philosophy 23, suppl., ‘Spindel Conference 1984: Recovering the Stoics’, 87–92; Chinese translation in Tsinghua Studies in Western Philosophy 4.2 (2018), 86–92 ‘Three notes on Theophrastus’ treatment of tastes and smells’ in W.W.Fortenbaugh (ed.), Theophrastus of Eresus, on his Life and Work (Rutgers University Studies in Classical Humanities, 2; New Brunswick 1985), 205–207 ‘Philoponus’ conception of space’ in R. Sorabji (ed.), Philoponus and the Rejection of Aristotelian Science (London/Ithaca NY 1987), 140–153 ‘Epicurean anti-reductionism’ in J. Barnes, M. Mignucci (ed.), Matter and Metaphysics (Naples 1988), 295–327; French version in Les Cahiers Philosophiques de Strasbourg 15 (2003), 321–359 ‘Epicurus on the common sensibles’ in P.M. Huby, G.C. Neale (ed.), The Criterion of Truth: Studies in Honour of George Kerferd on his 70th birthday (Liverpool 1989), 123–136 ‘Philosophical allegiance in the Greco-Roman world’ in M. Griffin, J. Barnes (ed.), Philosophia Togata (Oxford 1989), 97–119 ‘Is the Lysis a dialogue of definition?’ Phronesis 34 (1989), 107–108 ‘The proems of Empedocles and Lucretius’ Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 30 (1989), 269–296 ‘Teleology and myth in the Phaedo’ Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy 5 (1990), 359–383 ‘Is Aristotle’s teleology anthropocentric?’ Phronesis 36 (1991), 179–196 ‘Empedocles’ theory of vision and Theophrastus De sensibus’ in W.W. Fortenbaugh, D. Gutas (eds.), Theophrastus: his Psychological, Doxographical and Scientific Writings, Rutgers University Studies in Classical Humanities, 5; New Brunswick 1992), 20–31 ‘Sextus Empiricus and the atomist criteria of truth’ Elenchos 13 (1992), 19–56 ‘Chrysippus on psychophysical causality’ in J. Brunschwig, M. Nussbaum (ed.), Passions & Perceptions (Cambridge 1993), 313–331 ‘Commentary on Mansfeld’ (on J. Mansfeld, ‘The idea of will in Chrysippus, Posidonius and Galen’) Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy 7 (1993), 146–152 ‘A Platonist reading of Theaetetus 145–147’ Aristotelian Society suppl. vol. 67 (1993), 125–149 ‘La causalità psicologica nel Fedone’ in A. Alberti (ed.), Realtà e Ragione (Florence 1994), 107–122 ‘The dramatis personae of Plato’s Phaedo’ in T.J. Smiley (ed.), Philosophical Dialogues: Plato, Hume and Wittgenstein (Oxford 1995), 1–26 ‘Three Platonist interpretations of the Theaetetus’  in C. Gill, M.M. McCabe (ed.), Form and Argument in Late Plato (Oxford 1996), 79–103 ‘Aristotle’s De interpretatione and ancient semantics’ in G. Manetti (ed.), Knowledge through Signs: Ancient Semiotic Theories and Practices (Brussels 1996), 87–108; revised version, ‘Aristote et la signification’, Philosophie Antique 4 (2004), 5–25 ‘Plato’s Phaedo in the third century BC’ in M. Serena Funghi (ed.), ΟΔΟΙ ΔΙΖΗΣΙΟΣ_: Le vie della ricerca (Studi in onore di Francesco Adorno)_ (Florence 1996), 447–455 ‘The inferential foundations of Epicurean ethics’ in G. Giannantoni, M. Gigante (ed.), Epicureismo Greco e Romano (Naples 1996), 313–39; repr. in S. Everson (ed.), Ethics (Cambridge 1998), 129–150 ‘Alcinous’ epistemology’ in K.A. Algra, P.W. van der Horst, D.T. Runia (ed.), Polyhistor: Studies in the History and Historiography of Ancient Philosophy (Leiden 1996), 300–312 ‘Plato’s auctoritas and the rebirth of the commentary tradition’ in J. Barnes, M. Griffin (ed.), Philosophia Togata II, Plato and Aristotle at Rome, (Oxford 1997), 110–129 ‘A new r.... Discover the David Sedley popular books. Find the top 100 most popular David Sedley books.