Brad Inwood

About

Brad Inwood is the William Lampson Professor of Philosophy and of Classics at Yale University. He is a specialist in ancient philosophy with particular emphasis on Stoicism and the Presocratics. His academic background includes a BA in Classics from Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, an MA in Classics from the University of Toronto, and a doctorate in Classics from Toronto with a focus on ancient philosophy. His career began with a Mellon postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford, followed by a teaching position at the University of Toronto, where he served as DGS in Classics, chair of the Classics department, and acting chair of Philosophy. He also founded Toronto’s Collaborative Program in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, serving as its director for two terms. In addition, he has held fellowships at the National Humanities Centre and the Centre for Advanced Study in the Behavioural Sciences, and held the Canada Research Chair in Ancient Philosophy. His research has consistently focused on ancient philosophy, especially during the Hellenistic and Presocratic periods. His major works include titles such as 'Ethics and Human Action in Early Stoicism,' 'The Poem of Empedocles,' 'Reading Seneca: Stoic Philosophy at Rome,' 'Seneca: Selected Philosophical Letters,' and 'Ethics After Aristotle.' From 2007 to 2015, he was the editor of Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, and he has recently published 'Later Stoicism 155 BC to AD 200: An Introduction and Collection of Sources…

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Epistemology
• Philosophy
• Social Science
• Classics
• Political Science
• Sociology
• Law
• History
• Literature

Selected publications

• Later Stoicism 155 BC to AD 200

  2022 · 17 citations

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  Most modern readers of the Stoics think first of later authors such as Seneca, Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius. Existing works like Long and Sedley's The Hellenistic Philosophers concentrate on the Stoics of the early school. This book focusses on the more influential later school, including key figures like Panaetius and Posidonius, and provides well-chosen selections from the full range of Stoic thinkers. It emphasizes their important work in logic, physics and cosmology as well as in ethics. Fr…

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• Cicero's ‘De Officiis'

  Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2023 · 13 citations

  Cicero's De Officiis, perhaps his most influential philosophical work, ranges over a wide variety of themes, from the role of the family in society to the question of whether our duties can conflict with one another, and from the moral significance of offence to the question of whether it is right to kill a dictator. This Critical Guide, the first collection of essays devoted to the work, is helpfully organised in thematic sections and aims to illuminate both the main individual topics of De Off…

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• Stoics and Hylomorphism

  2023-08-24 · 1 citations

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  Abstract Aristotle’s hylomorphism, which concerns the relationship between form and matter, is paralleled in many ways by the Stoic theory of the relationship between peculiar quality and matter. This is particularly clear in the theory developed by the Stoic Mnesarchus in the second century bce, though the comparison with Aristotle is apt in all versions of Stoic physics. Analysis of this parallelism is complemented by a discussion of how both theories relate to Platonism. The chapter concludes…

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• Bibliography

  Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2026-03-04

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• The Dialogue’s Place in the Corpus

  Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2026-03-04

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Frequent coauthors

• Raphael Woolf

  King's College London

  15 shared

• David Sedley

  11 shared

• Malcolm Schofield

  9 shared

• R. J. Hankinson

  The University of Texas at Austin

  8 shared

• Keimpe Algra

  Utrecht University

  7 shared

• Dorothea Frede

  Universität Hamburg

  7 shared

• Enzo Degani

  6 shared

• Franco Montanari

  6 shared

Awards & honors

• Canada Research Chair in Ancient Philosophy
• Winkler Prize

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